Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be easy enough to envy him if she had n't seen that terrible mark on his shoulder — — he 'd taught her to read those letters . |
| 2 | She was tired , Carolyn reflected , she 'd missed her sleep that morning because of Mum and Dad . |
| 3 | Because of his principles he had n't served in the Forces and they 'd made him do labouring jobs instead , so that now his hands were n't what they used to be either . |
| 4 | Asked for a safety deposit box after she 'd seen me cramming Belgian banknotes in an envelope . |
| 5 | I came searching for you at the shop and one of your neighbours told me she 'd seen you come this way . ‘ |
| 6 | ‘ It was the lowest point of my life I 'd sold everything to do this trip . ’ |
| 7 | She said she 'd got him to agree that day and it was no use arguing because it was her price for keeping her promise to be silent about her work on the other paintings . ’ |
| 8 | She said she 'd got , she 'd got you know those things that you take double ? |
| 9 | On her return , she 'd found him entertaining several field officers from the nearby KOSB battalion . |
| 10 | Yes , yeah all that all that part was okay erm but from the point of view of the script th th that we 'd asked you to learn last night y you did n't do that now that may well work for you , the way you 're actually doing it , but from a training point of view we , we 're trying to look that you 're actually following the , the script there . |
| 11 | Another thought struck her — the farmhouse he 'd taken her to see that morning … could he have gone there ? |
| 12 | Rough told how his wife Michelle had taught him to keep fresh food away from detergents . |
| 13 | Not the gentle swaying to the tide that had lulled her to sleep last night but a definite purposeful movement . |
| 14 | She had heard him use that tone of voice in the past and knew exactly what it meant . |
| 15 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |
| 16 | She said the cable network had stopped her taking more control . |
| 17 | Sitthi explained that the ASEAN countries had instructed him to communicate these principles for a settlement to the Soviet leadership . |
| 18 | What on earth had possessed her to volunteer that information ? she wondered numbly . |
| 19 | Karen , very tired and possibly a little drunk , realised slowly that she had seen him deploy this technique before , at an earlier dinner in the house , and that somehow it was probably quite offensive . |
| 20 | The Shah 's own eyes 's were wet , This was not the first time that his officers had seen him show such emotion . |
| 21 | It was the first time I had seen him reveal any emotion in his face , and it had something of the intensity of grief . |
| 22 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
| 23 | Nicholas I had put some order into 200 years of imperial legislation by publishing the Complete Collection and Digest of the Laws , but he had done nothing to alter judicial procedure . |
| 24 | Handsome , talented , and wealthy he might be , but he was also rude and abrasive , and she had done nothing to deserve such treatment . |
| 25 | He had made her laugh several times , had laughed once at something she 'd said , she recalled , and the entire evening had gone by on winged feet . |
| 26 | Because , apart from the emotion of the moment , what had made me take this decision was really a kind of pride : I had to see myself as someone who had done the ‘ right thing ’ . |
| 27 | " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to . |
| 28 | She had thought he wanted ordinary satisfactions . |
| 29 | Even his colleagues had been alarmed by James Harding 's confused state of mind , and had persuaded him to seek medical help . |
| 30 | He had had nothing to eat that day at all and had been up quite a lot of the night and now felt a bit dozy , but it did n't mean that he was ill . |