Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only about 70% of households approached agreed to participate in the Family Expenditure Survey . |
| 2 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 3 | Not because I was made to be late , but I , I , I , I 'd , me mother had made me cos she said you got ta come home to your dinner and there was no buses there were trams in them days , but I 'd got to get into the town . |
| 4 | She had no idea why he had telephoned her , though she did n't put it out of the realms of possibility that , having gone away when he 'd promised to think about the interview , he might well have rung to suggest some alternative . |
| 5 | Cleo concluded it was probably not the first time he 'd had to deal with a situation like this . |
| 6 | She 'd had to work like a Trojan to achieve it , but it had been worth every drop of blood , sweat and tears . |
| 7 | I made a mental note that I must n't say anything to annoy my prim secretary , at least until after she 'd agreed to help with the business the next evening . |
| 8 | He 'd reached to click off the light , and the room shimmered again with the faintest light from the moon . |
| 9 | She relived that moment when he 'd reached to click off the bedside light , and those cool blue rays had stolen silently into the room , highlighting the unfamiliar ecstasy she 'd somehow denied herself until now … |
| 10 | Since that afternoon two days ago they 'd treated each other with a cool formality , a style initiated by Roman on the return trip from the Blue Grotto , when he 'd seemed to withdraw into a kind of amused reserve , as if he 'd tested her out in some way and now lost interest in the original conquest . |
| 11 | She 'd gone and found the children and they 'd refused to come to the telephone , which had surprised her . |
| 12 | I explained how I 'd attempted to fire at the Corporal as Kaptan lay on the ground and how the gun had malfunctioned ; it would be more accurate to say I 'd been first to aim but the Corporal had got his shots off first . |
| 13 | Her body was found in a hall of residence only hours after she 'd arrived to teach at a summer school of the Open University … today courses continued despite the tragedy … |
| 14 | When she 'd gone to work for the Bradfords Paddy had been left on his own and it had got worse than a pigsty then . |
| 15 | But that was just the way I 'd learned to think in the mountains . |
| 16 | I 'd started to get into a bit of a mess with speed . |
| 17 | And for the last 3 days , they 've been living on the food they 'd planned to give to the children . |
| 18 | You can both go to hell for all I care , ’ Sarella wondered how it was they 'd managed to get off the subject of the telephone call so quickly . |
| 19 | But he 'd managed to get to a phone near the toilets in the operations centre . |
| 20 | The whole legion of them from all sorts of different things , you know , there was the , the one about the , the secretary of the , of the club , the secretary of some organization , youth organization , said , in her annual reports , commented on how many young girls they 'd managed to get in the club that year . |
| 21 | When she did come we were all excited , but we all got told to get off the concourse and hide ! |
| 22 | We even got invited to see inside the pressure vessel . |
| 23 | Many councillors said they felt compelled to vote against the motion because they believed in the tenant farmers freedom of choice . |
| 24 | In 1960 , though , he felt compelled to return to the painting . |
| 25 | In 1987 , employment minister Kenneth Clarke still felt compelled to genuflect in the direction of ‘ our target of full employment ’ . |
| 26 | He felt tempted to continue through the village to visit the young Prince at Woodstock Palace but , considering what he had just learnt , thought he had better wait for a while . |
| 27 | This drew a little laughter from one or two shoppers who had gathered to listen to the exchange between the fishmonger and this well dressed and clearly foreign lady . |
| 28 | I had never been able to do that , not with such unselfconscious pleasure , perhaps because deep down I had resented his existence which was preventing me doing all the marvellous things I had intended to do in the world . |
| 29 | He had intended to put in an hour 's fishing but there was an impatience which he could not appease by the sport and so he turned aside into the fields which took him across towards Portinscale . |
| 30 | Mr. Adey had intended to call on the directors to explain his ideas , but he had been ‘ confined by a complaint in his legs and was still obliged to be carried from his sofa to a carriage ’ . |