Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That she 'd introduced him to the Fletchers to keep him there … well , she deserved it . |
| 2 | She 'd followed him into the Rockingham public house by the Elephant and Castle . |
| 3 | Sister had heard them from the S.C.O . 's office and was already beside me . |
| 4 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 5 | As he had been invited to dine with Members afterwards , his secretary had booked him into The Howard Hotel , a few hundred yards from Parliament Square on the Victoria Embankment , overlooking the Tower of London to the east and the Houses of Parliament to the west . |
| 6 | She had never liked the arrangement that had installed her in the Ward household , but having heard the tragic story , and knowing how much it meant to the woman who had rescued her from a life of loneliness , how could she refuse ? |
| 7 | He said his mother , Eva , who is Irish , had reminded him of the Klan 's history of persecuting Catholics . |
| 8 | He was some stray who had reminded her of the Scarabae agent . |
| 9 | She 'd been close to panicking when Jeff had phoned her about the Sardinia stint . |
| 10 | He had met them at the Piazza Venezia two hours before . |
| 11 | I had met her at the England-USA match in Birmingham and she had offered to help me with my career . |
| 12 | For a couple of years she and I had knocked around the Mediterranean , then I had sailed her across the Atlantic . |
| 13 | They belonged to Hammersmith Council who had bought them from the BBC for something like three million pounds . |
| 14 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 15 | He could n't bring himself to believe what Ace had told him about the TARDIS 's ability to move . |
| 16 | After Mr Bush had told her of the US military action by telephone at 7am , an hour after his troops moved in , Mrs Thatcher told reporters : ‘ I believe he was right to do so . |
| 17 | In Paris itself , his priority , thanks to Schellenberg , had got him on the Berlin Express , but B17 bombers of the American 8th Air Force operating out of England had inflicted severe damage on the Frankfurt railway marshalling yards . |
| 18 | It had been her overwhelming need for money — a great deal of money — which had drawn her to the London Metal Exchange . |
| 19 | So Lexy was one of the three girls mentioned by the whispering woman who had shown her into the Seraglio . |
| 20 | Because of his language ability , Heydrich himself had pulled him into the Sicherheitsdienst , the SS security service , known as the SD . |
| 21 | Commander Abigail was not a heavy drinker , but after his gloomy morning walk he had felt the need of consolation and had found it in the Disraeli Lounge of the Queen Victoria Hotel . |
| 22 | The Chinese have given just enough support to the allies to bring themselves back into favour with the western governments , particularly America 's , that had spurned them after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 . |
| 23 | Nine of the birds , confiscated from poachers who had smuggled them into the US from Mexico , have survived and seem to be doing well . |
| 24 | It was her deep sorrow and unhappiness at the tragic accident that had brought them to the United States , together with all the fraught , highly charged tension of having to be in Ross 's company for any length of time , which had taken its toll of her already precariously weak reserves of strength . |
| 25 | The police car that had followed him to the Windorah was still parked across the road . |
| 26 | It was in 1984 , when Kylie was still only 16 , that her next big break came and it was again Alan Hardy , the man who had cast her in The Sullivans three years before , who was involved . |
| 27 | But as minister of finance under Zahedi he had become too well known for negotiating the new agreement with the oil companies , and so the Shah had exiled him to the Washington embassy . |
| 28 | Fernando had taken her to the Zarzuela , the Spanish operettas that had taken her breath away . |
| 29 | They said the PLO chairman , Yasser Arafat , had discussed the proposal with the Egyptian president , Hosni Mubarak , in Cairo on Wednesday and Egypt had put it to the United States . |
| 30 | Then when we met again , you would be full of all you had done — a ride on your motor bike to Alba de Tormes or Ledesma , a strange church you had discovered , or a new book someone had sent you from the States . |