Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cook tells me he 'd seen it somewhere and wanted one for his wife . |
| 2 | Pam knew about Rosie , that we 'd done everything together and had n't been split up and that it was hard for me to leave her . |
| 3 | I grabbed my leather jacket from the chair where it seemed to crawl to no matter where I 'd hung it earlier and found the keys to Armstrong in one pocket and a screwed-up five-pound note in the other . |
| 4 | He was only a boy , hardly out of drama school and scared stiff and , by the time he 'd pulled himself together and gone back to do the right thing by her , the girl had disappeared . |
| 5 | He 'd find that Way Out , but he would n't leave until he 'd found them again and sorted them out . |
| 6 | They were half-way to the car when she found she 'd left something behind and went back in a flurry of carrier bags and magazines . |
| 7 | You 're singing a different tune now from the one you sang after you 'd left her behind and got yourself arrested . |
| 8 | As he 'd left she 'd kissed him briefly and smiled . |
| 9 | Yet ten minutes later he felt he had treated her unkindly and regretted not having gone after her . |
| 10 | He might well have made some bargain with the Plantagenet — after all , this Edward owed something , for it was here , to Dunbar Castle , that his father , Edward the Second , had fled for refuge after the disaster of Bannockburn when Patrick , as a young man , had received him kindly and provided him passage by sea to England . |
| 11 | His hand had caught hers again and held it very tightly . |
| 12 | The nice thing about Matilda was that if you had met her casually and talked to her you would have thought she was a perfectly normal five-and-a-half-year-old child . |
| 13 | He did not know the man 's name but was certain he had seen him before and believed he knew where he worked . |
| 14 | However , the former had seen something amiss but hidden her thoughts behind the riddle ‘ Sinistra non dextra ’ , literally translated : ‘ On the right not the left ’ . |
| 15 | She was thinner than when Carrie had seen her before and had a transparent look , like a skeleton leaf : all her veins and bones showing . |
| 16 | He had liked it terrifically when he had seen it before but had n't wanted to say : it seemed girlish to him to think anything of an animal . |
| 17 | Frankie had seen it before and thought I would n't like it and tried to dissuade me from going in . |
| 18 | Thus lawyer C tended not to translate his clients ' chosen outcomes , whereas lawyer B had transformed them so as to facilitate translation . |
| 19 | By now the US personnel had got themselves together and began to return fire and before Maryland was hit her gunners claimed a torpedo bomber . |
| 20 | She shivered as she recalled the terrible blackness that had invaded her home and had clung to and coated the village on that night when she had heard the voices . |
| 21 | A woman had sold her home and handed over to her son the £4000 proceeds , on condition that she could live with him in the house he bought with the money . |
| 22 | His front leg was paralysed from an old road accident , our vet guessed the owners had abandoned her rather than pay for the amputation . |
| 23 | After its financial disaster in 1720 the South Sea Company had pulled itself together and had tried to trade with South America as though nothing had happened . |
| 24 | For over a year she had been cutting out coupons from magazines and sending off for make-up samples that she had kept hidden in a small suitcase in the boathouse ; since her grandmother 's death she had brought them indoors and experimented openly , primping all day long , leaving streaks of grease everywhere , on the table cloth , on the bathroom shelves . |
| 25 | The Danakil around Bilen were friendly , but were apprehensive of their formidable neighbours in Bahdu , who had raided them recently and inflicted many casualties . |
| 26 | He looked as though a cannonball had hit him amidships and left him with a hollow chest and a permanent arch in his back . |
| 27 | No one — not the Seven nor Hal Shepherd — knew how he really felt about the matter , only that he had refused to see Tolonen since that day ; that he had exiled him immediately and appointed a new General , Vittorio Nocenzi , in his place . |
| 28 | But they met anyway , in part because in their early childhood one or other of their parents , usually but not always the father , had taken them aside and told them a great responsibility would fall to them : the carrying forward of a hermetically protected family secret , and in part because the Society looked after its own . |
| 29 | He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him . |
| 30 | She looked up and waved as the Golf drove past and when Melissa had put it away and locked the garage door , she rammed her fork into the ground and strolled over for a chat . |