Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or probably , since you ca n't trust anybody any more , you 'd better put it through the letter box . ’ |
| 2 | But then you thought you 'd better put it in the fridge ? |
| 3 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 5 | you 'd merely likened it to the bin-skips |
| 6 | We 'd just settled him along the back seat when I realised that he would need some money . |
| 7 | I assumed he 'd just picked you for the resemblance . ’ |
| 8 | I think the other thing also , I found it a disadvantage actually having it on the table , I think if I 'd just left it on the like that |
| 9 | but he 'd just told me about the housing with the car and everything . |
| 10 | He 'd already stabbed me in the heart several times before that with other ladies , but at least this time , there was a lady that I liked immensely . |
| 11 | I found the uncles and their wives , and the cousins , too , who were respectively scruffy and stuffy , trying and used to dread the annual get-together — though now I thought back to it it seemed I 'd always enjoyed it in the event . |
| 12 | He 'd also rigged it into the security systems as a precaution and was thus already rigid with dread when Roirbak communicated with him . |
| 13 | ‘ Luckily it was n't a heart attack — I 'd simply overdone it in the gym . ’ |
| 14 | The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room . |
| 15 | Ever since that morning when he 'd briefly pinned her to the mattress , gazing down at her so intently that his eyes had seemed to search her very soul , she 'd realised that she was in deep trouble . |
| 16 | ‘ I wish I 'd never employed him in the first place ! ’ |
| 17 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 18 | Instead he had relentlessly bombarded her with the same questions . |
| 19 | Someone had eventually taken her through the bustling , towering giant world of the shop to where her mother waited . |
| 20 | She had rarely seen him outside the context of the family . |
| 21 | Why , she wondered , when she had effectively let him off the hook ? |
| 22 | Though no amount of apologising was going to excuse the fact that she had deliberately misled them , even given that she had only misled them from the best of motives — so that they should not worry . |
| 23 | Without naming names , he goes on to outline the situations which had so interested him in the cases of the Melanesians and the Tari Furora , as he points out that to tamper with the pattern of primitive culture at one point is to endanger the whole structure . |
| 24 | Somebody had obviously left it in the cubicle . |
| 25 | It was as if a light blow , say on her cheek , had suddenly distracted her from the braced confidence of her early mood to an unwelcome uncertainty . |
| 26 | Eliot had apparently declined it on the plea that it was Lent . |
| 27 | Anthony would probably move on sooner or later ; his bosses , two Anglo-Italian academics , had already warned him about the carelessness of his work . |
| 28 | But then she should have anticipated that , since Candy had already warned her of the Scorpio ability to be cruel . |
| 29 | Peter Powell 's adventures with kites had already put him into the headlines when he ‘ flew ’ his grandmother , long before he perfected the diamond-shaped stunter that made him a worldwide name from 1974 . |
| 30 | She was gabbling , her voice breathy and barely under control , because she 'd raised her eyes to his face only to find the expression there more disturbing than the casual masculine pose he 'd adopted , and which had already reminded her of the night she 'd spent in his bed . |