Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 2 | Then , her arms under his and locked on his chest , she 'd drag my father 's dead weight from wherever he 'd fallen over to the cushions . |
| 3 | And I think it was an example of the trust that we 'd built up over the weeks and months that we were able to do it . |
| 4 | He 'd got in with the punks and seen immediately what they were doing , what a renaissance this was in music . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd got in amongst the sharks , filming them in a feeding frenzy . ’ |
| 6 | Other jobs they 'd pulled off over the years that we can nail them for . ’ |
| 7 | Once he knew you 'd found out about the paintings , he might have thought you 'd go on to discover the truth about the murder . |
| 8 | She said , do you know she said we 'd gone off to the woods and I suddenly remembered I 'd left my purse in the car . |
| 9 | Around the inner walls the Annamese soldiers of the imperial guard , who looked as if they 'd stepped out of the pages of one of his adventure-story books , stood sentinel with their muskets . |
| 10 | He repeated the information he 'd passed on to the Abigails and to Mr Plant : that George Joseph Smith had bought fish for the late Miss Munday , and eggs for Mrs Burnham and Miss Lofty . |
| 11 | Besides these photographs were Pedro 's polo helmet , which now had a map of the Malvinas stamped on the front ( which Angel always wore in matches ) , and a jar of earth he 'd dug up from the Islands on the day he 'd been sent home as a prisoner of war . |
| 12 | As he moved away , Shannon sent a silent stream of curses after the mischievous imp in her soul which had landed her in this , desperately trying to remember the instructions she 'd skimmed through in the beginners ' ‘ learn-to-ski ’ handbook Kelly had given her . |
| 13 | So he 'd rummaged around in the shadows , straightened up , glanced above him and there Jekub was . |
| 14 | Here 's an imag-inary line-up Leeds might be fielding now if they 'd held on to the stars they rejected . |
| 15 | The police explained why they 'd held on to the vehicles which were being kept near Malvern , not at Worcester . |
| 16 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 17 | I sat in the road during a demonstration and got hauled off to the police station in Newbury . |
| 18 | so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , that — I , er — got cut up on the rocks canoeing , Matron . |
| 20 | Along with many a public body that felt pushed around by the Tories , the BBC must have gone to bed on April 8 with dreams of a quieter life on the night ; already swinging , as it were , in the hammock slung for them by a hung parliament . |
| 21 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 22 | As soon as Dennis had roared off towards the offices of Osiris Management Services I strolled down Ramillies Drive to the Parsonage and rang the bell . |
| 23 | He had a high-rolling joint on the SS Nocturne , a ship anchored outside the limits , and some nasty rumours had floated back on the tides along with a well-dressed corpse or two . |
| 24 | In short the movies had broken through to the masses and had the power to pull in almost anybody and everybody who helped constitute the masses . |
| 25 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 26 | It seemed that NoS was going to be the first to tap the huge reservoir of people who had given up on the papers altogether . |
| 27 | Are you wishing it was I had rolled under in the waves , not your father 's grandson , because he was hurt while saving your life ? |
| 28 | Robertson had caught up with the words and passed the manuscript , still wet , to the laird . |
| 29 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 30 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |