Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Culley wondered why she 'd decided to let him off the hook . |
| 2 | A wooden scooter he 'd made tipped me over the handlebars on its maiden voyage and he picked it up and smashed it to smithereens against a lamp-post , as if it were a cobra that had just delivered a fatal bite . |
| 3 | And I remembered our last day together when I 'd promised to bring you to the Peacock theatre and robbed you of your heart 's desire by forcing you into my bed instead . |
| 4 | From America , how earnestly he 'd longed to reach her on the telephone ! |
| 5 | Leith was n't embarrassed , just saddened that his love for her friend had brought him to this , as he revealed how , for fear of losing what little chance he had with Rosemary , he had kept quiet about his love when he 'd wanted to shout it from the rooftops . |
| 6 | If he 'd hoped to placate her by the teasing compliment then he achieved the opposite . |
| 7 | He 'd tried to ring me with the good news but I had been out . |
| 8 | ‘ When — in this room after I 'd finished telling you of the singing fountain , you said , ‘ How lovely ’ and I own , I thought you the most lovely creature , in mind and body , that I had ever known . ’ |
| 9 | When I did emerge to eat , he remarked gloomily that he 'd managed to stick them to the bottom of the pan . |
| 10 | He had intended to leave them at the station , but the Left Luggage Office , he had just been reminded , closed at 9.30 . |
| 11 | Dougal had arranged to hire it for the Sunday and the Monday , just to be on the safe side . |
| 12 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 13 | Another time , I had arranged to meet him in the Naafi , a popular meeting place on the camp , at 5pm . |
| 14 | Women who were currently taking the pill or who had stopped taking it in the last 12 months had a significantly lower rate of endometriosis than those who had stopped for longer periods . |
| 15 | She had undertaken to contact him by the end of next week to report what progress she had made and he did not doubt she would do so , for she was a woman of her word . |
| 16 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 17 | Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle . |
| 18 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
| 19 | After he had come to collect her at the flat they joined a party of junior officers and debutantes at the Haymarket Theatre to see Pygmalion by the fashionable playwright George Bernard Shaw . |
| 20 | My husband had come to collect us at the airport and we came back here in a minicar . |
| 21 | He had come to question her in the manner of someone who comes to peer at a freak in a sideshow . |
| 22 | I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |
| 23 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 24 | With agitated fingers , his father felt in his shirt pocket for a cigarette , but he had forgotten to bring them from the kitchen . |
| 25 | But young children had reported spotting him inside the school , putting paper on to the fire . |
| 26 | Cacheris had sought to reassure them over the guarantees of civil liberties governing trials in the USA . |
| 27 | In their initial — and nearly successful — attempt on the Mort Homme the Germans had sought to outflank it from the northeast , and now they tried a similar movement on Côte 304 from the west . |
| 28 | But the second after the bottle shattered , the horror of what she had done hit her with the shock of a faceful of freezing water . |
| 29 | And he had been a healthy influence on Clare when she most needed it — when that creeping Jesus of a Damien had threatened to infect her with the mildew of his own damp piety . |
| 30 | To Etienne , this could only be one person — the blanc who had threatened to betray him to the President in the conversation which Etienne now interpreted with the benefit of hindsight . |