Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , some of his contemporaries were highly critical of his preoccupation with the technical side of verse ; even friends like Herbert Read placed emphasis on the Wordsworthian ‘ spontaneous overflowing of powerful feelings ’ . |
| 2 | I 'd heard stories of women being in labour for twelve or fifteen hours with their first child so I was quite pleased . |
| 3 | She 'd heard stories about people being attacked and their handbags stolen and so decided not to walk across town alone . |
| 4 | He 'd heard stories about him in Calcutta and half expected something of the sort . |
| 5 | He 'd heard loads of acceleration and loads of noise . |
| 6 | He 'd heard men in the bar talking about her . |
| 7 | I 'd heard tales about some people having seen an old man down there but not for a long while , he would n't hurt anyone so your lad need n't be scared of him . ’ |
| 8 | She 'd heard Lucy at meetings , fielding worries , steering the conversation around the reefs and sandbanks of ego and uncertainty . |
| 9 | Ken said — he came for Sunday lunch now , often with his stepdaughter but without his wife , who felt awkward in Ellen 's presence — that it reminded him of a kitten he 'd given Wendy on the day she gave birth to Apricot . |
| 10 | She remembered how helplessly she 'd given way to Jake 's madness on Starr Hills . |
| 11 | But surely not as furious as he would have been afterwards , if they 'd given way to the temptations of their flesh ? |
| 12 | ‘ Only the day before , you came barging into the flat , insinuating that I 'd given information to Richard Blake . |
| 13 | Well I take it it must have been , yeah , there was a helicopter in the garden and somebody said he 'd flown friends in in the afternoon , so I do n't know . |
| 14 | She did not like the way he 'd dismissed Nathan in order to talk to her . |
| 15 | The journalist with whom I 'd joined TWW on the same week from sister papers in Cardiff had wickedly gone into another room to make the mischievous call . |
| 16 | On Saturday , though , Watt 's comments on Chris Eubank 's latest bore left a disturbing impression of a man who 'd received instructions by his ITV masters not to forget that they had a product to sell . |
| 17 | She remembered now why she 'd hated sport at school . |
| 18 | She 'd aroused suspicion in some member of the staff and they 'd reported her to Brückner 's widow . |
| 19 | Hereford united travelled north to Rochdale , only to slip to 17th in the 4th division . |
| 20 | She had expected him to know what to whisper to a woman in the heat of passion , not to be able to tell her stories about Alaric , the Goth chieftain who 'd conquered Rome in AD 410 . |
| 21 | When we broke for coffee I asked him whether he 'd consulted Laura about the references I 'd turned up . |
| 22 | Things did go wrong … she 'd trusted in the powers of justice and compassion before , and she 'd lost her mother … she 'd trusted Mortimer with her friendship and he 'd betrayed her … trusted Guy with the whole of her heart and soul last night and all the time he 'd been laughing behind her back at the ‘ sexy redhead ’ from Chesters … |
| 23 | It had been a stupid omission , but then she 'd left so unexpectedly and in such a rush ; besides , she 'd expected Suzie to be at the address she 'd been given . |
| 24 | Leonora bristled as she marched into the other room , realising she 'd expected murmurs of appreciation to greet her offering . |
| 25 | If she 'd expected signs of embarrassment or even an apology , it was obvious that she 'd miscalculated . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I suppose I 'd expected expressions of grief , probably pages and pages of it . |
| 27 | I 'd expected Famlio to be patrolling in deep space , as usual , giving me room to manoeuvre and avoid them . |
| 28 | He 'd committed adultery with the wife of the local steward — the land agent for the lord of the manor . |
| 29 | I 'd caught sight of him in the distance from time to time all afternoon , but now when I wanted him his red hair was n't anywhere around . |
| 30 | She 'd bent down to pick up the purchases at her feet , and as she rose again she 'd caught sight of a face she knew , looking straight at her through the moving mesh of people . |