Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd seen patients in calipers but did n't know how to do it himself . |
| 2 | He 'd heard loads of acceleration and loads of noise . |
| 3 | He 'd hung Irishmen like apples from the gallows tree . |
| 4 | He 'd asked Amanda to lunch once , then again , and finally he had sounded her out , not minding the way she 'd sized him up , considering . |
| 5 | His line was that he 'd lost contact with Malcolm because he could only stand to be with him for so long at a stretch . |
| 6 | She did not like the way he 'd dismissed Nathan in order to talk to her . |
| 7 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 8 | Like when he 'd poured acid into Hugo 's water carrier . |
| 9 | He 'd pushed forkfuls of food into his mouth , chewing it mechanically , drinking water to make swallowing easier . |
| 10 | He 'd thrown rocks at windows of offices and works they 'd sacked him from , he 'd defaced buildings , scratched officials ' cars and mutilated bonnet mascots ( though that was largely for his own safety ) and he 'd made bomb-hoax telephone calls . |
| 11 | He 'd spent Christmas with friends in Crowmarsh . |
| 12 | Charlie was a cockney by birth but he 'd spent time in New York . |
| 13 | He 'd had Ribena with ice in it himself , and he could remember now , quite distinctly , thinking how horrible it must be for Kate , not to have a father , nor ever to have an occasion like this . |
| 14 | Paheri accused Surere of taking too soft a line ; but I also heard that he 'd found Surere in bed with a stable boy . |
| 15 | He had never been taken in , not really , not inside , but he 'd known moments of doubt , so his delight and relief were unbounded now he found that his instincts had been right all along ! |
| 16 | Where , I gather , Dhani put him in a Buddhist monastery and nursed him back to health — he 'd known Dhani at school and Cambridge . |
| 17 | Amiss decided not to mention the dead bodies he 'd been coming across since he 'd got chummy with Jim Milton . |
| 18 | Erm , from what I knew of erm I knew he 'd got access to firearms . |
| 19 | A young messenger-boy for the Post Office described what he thought brought youths to Highbury . |
| 20 | Before 675 he had defeated Wulfhere of Mercia [ q.v. ] , bringing the kingdom of Lindsey ( north Lincolnshire ) and possibly a larger part of Mercia under his direct rule : his presence at the synod of Hertford in 672 may be a mark of this temporary overlordship . |
| 21 | In and out of season he must give off these sparks of personal brightness , to dazzle as he had dazzled James of Lusignan , King of Cyprus , with his ‘ singular courtesy and noblesse ’ when he was governor of Bordeaux . |
| 22 | He left an under-age son , Richard , by Philippa , and an adult bastard , Daniel , to whom he had given lands in Glamorgan before 1245 . |
| 23 | Four weeks later the partners returned to see Mr Barnes with the news that BCCI chief executive Swaleh Naqvi had admitted that false documentation had been prepared ‘ to deceive the auditors ’ , and that he had given information about loans to BCCI shareholders secured on CCAH shares . |
| 24 | Bob Wilson was so confident that the deal would go through that some weeks before it was even completed he had given authorisation for work to begin at the Boeing factory in Seattle to modify the aircraft to British CAA regulations and finish it in the red and grey Virgin livery . |
| 25 | When he had gone , Sandison got to his feet but he had lost sight of Elsie . |
| 26 | In the process he had lost sight of Jack Stone , and Stone had slipped away into the night . |
| 27 | It was n't merely that he had lost stones in weight — dash it , the man 's sobriquet was a libel now — but that his whole demeanour was that of a soldier completely confused , completely disorientated . |
| 28 | His holdings in south Wales , the gains of his marriage , made him vulnerable to Despenser 's territorial ambitions in that area , and by May 1320 he had lost control of Gwynllwg and Newport . |
| 29 | When he had met Ivy at Crepi 's dinner party her appearance had struck him as so wilfully bizarre that he had written it off as a freak effect , as though all her luggage had been lost and she 'd had to raid the oddments put aside for collection by the missionary brothers . |
| 30 | He had met women like Brenda before . |