Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd all loved the charming flock . |
| 2 | I 'd just squawked the new transponder code when I saw a helicopter ahead at two o'clock . |
| 3 | Rohmer smiled again , and this time it was as if he 'd just heard the best news of the evening . |
| 4 | I taxed him about it once when he 'd just dinged the rear corner of a new Porsche . |
| 5 | Though I 'd just had the official report , I wanted the inside story . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd just left the Royal Academy , I 'd just got the results of my finals . |
| 7 | Somehow she 'd already guessed the other woman 's identity . |
| 8 | ‘ When you 'd already made the low opinion in which you held both me and my sister crystal-clear ? ’ |
| 9 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 10 | She 'd already bought the bloody card ! |
| 11 | When I worked er for in the mid eighties , we had been through a period where we 'd always taken the cheapest tender . |
| 12 | He 'd always had the nicest smile , open and boyish , but she 'd forgotten the way his hazel eyes sparkled with greenish lights , perhaps because she 'd never seen him so tanned before . |
| 13 | She 'd also told the accused man that she was pregnant . |
| 14 | He 'd nearly blown the whole thing then . |
| 15 | In fact I 'd carefully scripted the whole thing , grading the language to keep it within the students ' capabilities . |
| 16 | She 'd even felt the odd pang of nostalgia for the old days when she 'd been a young wet-behind-the-ears singer , just beginning to make her way up the ladder . |
| 17 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 18 | On the other hand : she 'd fortunately made the right career choice and been encouraged by school and family at an early age , got a qualification ( chartered accountancy ) that proved a useful passport , and had had the same supportive bosses any man would expect to get . |
| 19 | Her expression froze at that , and his heart seemed to sink into his guts as he realised he 'd almost said the wrong thing . |
| 20 | Matt said afterwards he 'd half expected the whole thing would turn out to be a wild goose chase and I told him I thought the same . |
| 21 | But I 'd never seen the real thing . |
| 22 | Her choice of career had surprised and confused the students competing against her for jobs , but she 'd never allowed the unspoken disapproval that had surrounded her to deter her from her goal . |
| 23 | She 'd never caught the French trick of eating slowly , relishing the food . |
| 24 | He 'd never shown the slightest interest in any other woman — any decent woman . |
| 25 | I wish I 'd never got the beastly thing . ’ |
| 26 | This awful and we 'd actually got the first window here which is which is . |
| 27 | He had been delighted beyond speech to see her until she had nervously produced the blue hospital card from out of her handbag . |
| 28 | The government stated that the decision had been made in order to prevent the spiral of drug-related violence which had eventually persuaded the Colombian government to end extradition [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 38332 ] . |
| 29 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 30 | At the former , stone-robbing had effectively removed the crucial junction on the steeply sloping ground ; at the gate , it remained unclear whether the wall was already in existence or whether it had been constructed at the same time . |