Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd got your number the first time we met . |
| 2 | Even after I 'd told my wife the good news I could n't hide my depression . |
| 3 | I did n't mean to become so intense about it — I had realised my mistake the previous time — but I needed to keep from pining and working a sixteen-hour day seemed to be the only way I could manage it . |
| 4 | Before he had completed his turn the whole sphere was blazing , and two parachutes were unfolding below it . |
| 5 | Tallis called , and as if it had understood its name the Green Jack stopped a moment , stared sadly at the woman with the horse . |
| 6 | The police had found his body the previous afternoon , just before lunch . |
| 7 | Louis ' men had set their roadblock the far side of the bridge from Trent 's observation point — upended ammunition boxes topped by poles cut from the jungle edge and a square white signboard on which Trent could see red letters made indecipherable by the angle of the board to his line of vision . |
| 8 | My aunt , the last survivor of my mother 's family , had lost her sister the previous year , and I helped her to arrange for the sale of most of the contents of her house , and for her own establishment in a club . |
| 9 | He had learnt his craft the hard way ; after you had shot an Ibizan beach orgy sequence in a studio in Soho on a cold January morning with a load of complaining bimbos and a gay black man coked out of his brains , any other gig was a breeze . |