Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 32 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
| 33 | He 'd bought it in the Bazaar from an Indian trader who told him it would make the muscle grow . |
| 34 | It was their way of saying thank you to the locals who 'd helped them on the road to stardom . |
| 35 | Almost inaudible in the crush , he thanked everyone who 'd helped him in the case . |
| 36 | cos she 'd had it since the beginning of February . |
| 37 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 38 | I 'd dragged her into the storeroom and begged her to take me to London , saying my family would n't allow me to go without her . |
| 39 | Then they 'd they 'd bunged us in the train and sent us down to Marseilles . |
| 40 | I retrieved my stash from where I 'd taped it under the steering column and my cigarettes and green Rizla papers from the dashboard . |
| 41 | I 'd known him from the start of punk . |
| 42 | He was confident he 'd brought her to the stage where he could lay her . |
| 43 | He could n't help wondering if he 'd interrupted him in the act of copulation . |
| 44 | After Ricky 'd settled them in the drawing room with drinks , he went in search of Perdita . |
| 45 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 46 | We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime . |
| 47 | Once he 'd introduced me to the Princess , he never said another word . ’ |
| 48 | He clambered up and intercepted her at the kitchen door , enfolding her and drawing her in to his body so that his warmth flowed through to her , just as he had that day when he 'd found her on the beach , lost and afraid ; like him , a victim of the past . |
| 49 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 50 | In fact , he was the man who 'd escorted her to the door to mark the end of her first visit . |
| 51 | The wedding-dress was in the faded green trunk , just as he 'd imagined it in the night . |
| 52 | Much bigger than she 'd imagined it in the dark . |
| 53 | Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel . |
| 54 | Vernon was arrested for leading an armed attack on the then Branch Davidian leader one George who 'd thrown him off the property . |
| 55 | For answer , I picked up the newspaper from where I 'd thrown it on the desk . |
| 56 | He 'd left her at the inn without so much as a word , and here he was , calmly indulging his hobby while she 'd had to trek after him . |
| 57 | When he 'd left her at the entrance to Newcastle Place the day Pa died she 'd ached with disappointment that she might never see him again . |
| 58 | We 'd left her in the car actually . |
| 59 | who 'd left her in the lurch |
| 60 | She looked up at Trent , as if seeing him for the first time : ‘ I 'd have drowned if you 'd left me on the Key . ’ |