Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF ONLY the woman had paused for a moment to inspect the hastily scrawled felt tip notice at the top of the stairs : ‘ I am sorry for any inconvenience caused to all our customers during the period that the down escalator has been out of service . |
| 2 | Thomas Tate , of Battersea Training School ( for teachers ) , whose students had to help look after the pigs ; Charles Godfrey , who helped found mathematics education as a discipline in its own right . |
| 3 | Dot did n't know what a banana tasted like , though she 'd heard Mrs Parvis talk about them often enough . |
| 4 | I 'd heard North Shore aficionados reminiscing about the ten-point tube Pottz had caught here back in '82 . |
| 5 | I had a little Fender lap-steel guitar , and I 'd heard bottleneck players and blues players and I kept trying to play like that and I just could n't figure it out . |
| 6 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 7 | The dentist was very decent , looked up his records although he did n't need to , because he 'd treated Mr. Stavanger for years and knew him quite well . |
| 8 | Though she had nothing remotely suitable with her to wear to a party , over the past hour or so , as she 'd arranged salami slices and stuffed olives and listened to Agnese and Filippo 's bubbly chatter , she 'd found herself slipping into a party mood . |
| 9 | They 'd trusted Sir Arnold — not just with the yard , but with the sheep-farming business too . |
| 10 | " What they was quarrelling about I could n't take it on myself to say , except that it was about a lady , and that Dr. Lorrimer was upset because she 'd telephoned Mr. Middlemass . |
| 11 | When she 'd boarded Water Gypsy yesterday , she had spotted some photographs in the main cabin , one a head and shoulders , the other a provocative , sexy pose . |
| 12 | On February 19 we wrote of the chap round Carmel Road way who 'd installed security lighting after two burglaries further up the street . |
| 13 | I guess he 'd picked De Gaulle as the most sympathetic and scholarly-looking . |
| 14 | Well I , I met him actually through er I was nursing erm a baby , she was only three months old and she 'd had , she 'd caught , from her older sister she 'd caught whooping cough . |
| 15 | ‘ My daughter told me she 'd spilt nail varnish on my new bedroom carpet . ’ |
| 16 | This er a question that Mr raised last Thursday of Friday and which I thought I 'd clarified Leeds position on . |
| 17 | I 'd met Dr Eisenstat yesterday . |
| 18 | Well , at about half-seven he 'd gone into a restaurant in St Giles ‘ , Browns ; had a nice steak , with a bottle of red wine ; left at about half-nine — and was strolling down to The Randolph when he 'd met Mrs Sheila Williams , just outside the Taylorian , as she was making for the taxi-rank . |
| 19 | I 'd met Gordon Holmes , who knew the London managers and he was guiding me . |
| 20 | If you 'd met Ewen Mackay then- ’ |
| 21 | Blinked a few times instead and told him in a croaky voice that I 'd met Erica Upton twice and had sat next to her at dinner . |
| 22 | Considering this question , with some surprise Robbie realised that had never been her aim — until she 'd met Fen Marshall . |
| 23 | Robbie was becoming almost accustomed to sleepless nights since she 'd met Fen Marshall . |
| 24 | He says a mutual friend phoned to say he 'd met Mr. Cratchley in the car park that morning and he realised that Mr. Cratchley had booked into our property in France . |
| 25 | He 'd met Romano de Sciorto through researching the book he 'd been planning on the history of the islands . |
| 26 | He 'd met Sean Penn maybe 20 times , and they went to the same clubs on Melrose and Sunset , even if not at the same time or on the same night . |
| 27 | Which are quite frightening about opting out , erm some of you will remember that we 'd attended Welwyn Garden City on a picket a month ago , and erm as a result of campaigning there , within the hospital , with the press and the Council , they have been turned down so they are not being allowed to opt out . |
| 28 | I expected a slap but Mrs Bullivant just stepped over us saying she 'd be back later , after she 'd attended Mrs Groves who was having her first . |
| 29 | There 'd been a master at Ravenswood , a man called Funny Stiles who 'd been given the sack because he 'd made boys presents of whistles and fountain-pens . |
| 30 | But I 'd seen Dick Cleave and Les Petherbridge , good men both of them , choosing to hang on at the Gazette for ever . |