Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That reminds me : I asked whether he 'd heard anything within a few minutes of seeing young Hamnett , hoping he 'd say a shot , of course , which really would have been too good to be true . |
| 2 | She 'd treated herself to the new dress , from the boutique recommended by Anneliese . |
| 3 | You 'd given yourself to the highest bidder — ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him . |
| 5 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 6 | She 'd thrown herself at him , and then when she 'd panicked he 'd dropped her like a hot potato … what a fool she 'd been ! |
| 7 | I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 9 | I decided I did n't want a toffee-apple any more , even though I 'd seen one with a great wedge of toffee stuck to the bottom , so I pretended I 'd seen Marie passing in front of the window and I ran out and shouted , " Wait on , Marie , I 've an important message for you . " |
| 10 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 11 | My God , for 15 years I 'd written nothing but a few songs . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 13 | He 'd threatened her with the direst reprisals if she dared to leave their suite , not guessing that wild horses would n't drag her away until she 'd cleared the whole matter up . |
| 14 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd got myself into a double bind , and there was no way out . ’ |
| 16 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 17 | when you when you knew that he 'd got you by the short and curlies ? |
| 18 | He 'd helped her through a bad patch and she 'd been grateful , but she 'd never really considered him in any other light . |
| 19 | They 'd locked him in a dirty little hole with a bed you would n't put a dog under . |
| 20 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 21 | She 'd invited him round the previous evening and things had n't gone at all as he 'd hoped . |
| 22 | Times I 'd lie in my bed , late at night , and shudder to think my Jake 'd wedded her in a Christian church . ’ |
| 23 | She 'd styled it into a long , fat French plait . |
| 24 | You said you 'd spent it on a new banjo . ’ |
| 25 | She 'd flattened herself against the outside wall like someone in a spy movie . |
| 26 | Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me . |
| 27 | She 'd found herself on the receiving end of a great deal of teasing about her impromptu topless dip in the sea and her valiant rescuer , and she 'd fenced it as calmly as she could . |
| 28 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 29 | At last he unlocked a heavily carved door , and after a moment Meredith saw that he 'd led her into a large office with plaster frescos and a glorious ceiling of painted angels hung with gilded chandeliers . |
| 30 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |