Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they 'd come out of the house , he 'd shaken himself free of the women and had now adopted a surly silence . |
| 2 | When we arrived at the hotel I found that he 'd booked us both into the same double room . |
| 3 | Irritated by Viola 's habit of slipping into cliches from the West End plays of her youth every time feeling was called for , Greg said : ‘ You 'd seen her earlier in the evening , had n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | He 'd done something dishonest for the first time in his business life , and it sat uneasily on his conscience . |
| 5 | So I wished I 'd done it all in the first place , now I 've got to do it . |
| 6 | ‘ I think he 'd got himself involved with the law . |
| 7 | If you 'd told me this in the make-up room when you came to have your hair cut , you 'd have saved yourself a needless journey . |
| 8 | No need to tell them about Charlie and getting married or the unholy row with Mama or the hell that was let loose when she told them she 'd had her medical for the WRNS and if anyone tried to stop her going … |
| 9 | He longed to ask her if she 'd had anything nice in the post , but did n't quite dare . |
| 10 | ‘ Marius wrote a letter to his son last November — this is a copy of it — complaining in humble terms about how he 'd left himself short by the gift and not taken inflation into account , and would Nigel let him have a small income from various shares and properties ? |
| 11 | The last time he 'd seen her she 'd been drunk , they 'd had a fight , he 'd left her sprawling on the carpet . |
| 12 | It was anger , she 'd thought suddenly , anger as sharp and cruel as the blade of a knife , as if he 'd held her responsible for the desire so clearly etched into his arrogant , handsome face … |
| 13 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 14 | The South Africans were asking the umpires in the West Indies whether they had received their one for the over . |
| 15 | From the very first , I had sensed something wrong about the long-haired Mamba … for one thing a man should not be that beautiful . |
| 16 | The sketchily covered breasts that had embarrassed her earlier in the evening were now taut and tingling , and when Tom 's hands came up to cup them through the thin fabric of her blouse she wanted to arch her back and drink in the new sensation with cries of pleasure . |
| 17 | He and Ford had a cannon on the roof loaded with everything that they had been able to lay their hands on : stones , penknives , pieces of lightning-conductor , chains , nails , the embossed silver cutlery from the dining-room , and even some ivory false teeth , picked up by Ford who had seen them gleaming in the undergrowth ; but the greater part of the improvised canister was filled with fragments of marble chipped from The Spirit of Science Conquers Ignorance and Prejudice . |
| 18 | She knew he was back from town , had seen him earlier through the window . |
| 19 | " I do n't want you to think that we eat like this every night , " said the sultan with a smile ; indeed , we had seen him earlier in the day wearing well-cut Western clothes . |
| 20 | Blanche asked whether Nicola 's husband had seen anything suspicious at the party . |
| 21 | Afterwards , Ruth could not remember that she had done anything unusual on the twenty-third of December . |
| 22 | Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers . |
| 23 | I wish that the hon. Gentleman had made himself familiar with the two judgments in the case — those of Mr. Justice Simon Brown and of the Master of the Rolls . |
| 24 | When she returned from the kitchen he had made himself comfortable on the sofa . |
| 25 | Wonderful Members of Parliament , who , little more than twenty years before , had made themselves merry with the wild railroad theories of engineers , and given them the liveliest rubs in cross-examination , went down into the north with their watches in their hands , and sent on messages before by the electric telegraph , to say that they were coming Night and day the conquering engines rumbled at their distant work , or advancing smoothly to their journey 's end , and gliding like tame dragons into the allotted corners grooved out to the inch for their reception , stood bubbling and trembling there , making the walls quake , as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers yet unsuspected in them , and strong purposes not yet achieved . |
| 26 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |
| 27 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |
| 28 | The youngest son came to the totem , to Tallis , and straightened her after the blizzard had made her lean to the left . |
| 29 | It was Barbara Castle who remarked , when Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservatives in 1975 , that power had made her pretty for the first time . |
| 30 | My close friendship with Pearn had made me aware of the work that he had put into that assistance . |