Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd heard stories of women being in labour for twelve or fifteen hours with their first child so I was quite pleased . |
| 2 | He 'd heard loads of acceleration and loads of noise . |
| 3 | Leonora bristled as she marched into the other room , realising she 'd expected murmurs of appreciation to greet her offering . |
| 4 | If she 'd expected signs of embarrassment or even an apology , it was obvious that she 'd miscalculated . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I suppose I 'd expected expressions of grief , probably pages and pages of it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I bet that Terry Waite was praying his head off and he 'd memorised masses of the bible which he would be reciting to himself probably said he thought two o'clock every afternoon I 'll remember what I can of Book of Isaiah you know . |
| 9 | Mm , mm its one of the great arguments from the old fashioned sort of religion , that you could turn , you could definitely turn to people and say why are you leaning on me so hard , for all this to fought , you ought to be reading your bible , saying your prayers , going to church and getting in touch with the boss why I laughed when they were saying that Terry Waite would need counselling , I bet that Terry Waite was praying his head off and he 'd memorised masses of the bible which he would be reciting to himself probably set himself two o'clock every afternoon , I remember what I can , book of you know I do n't suppose he 'd needed any counselling , he 'd probably do better counselling other people . |
| 10 | I seemed to think that I 'd seen scores of other holy pictures just like it ; God with his fingers held funny and always with one pointing upwards . |
| 11 | And we 'd seen photographs of these and they were marvellous , and he said to me , I should like to see these fl these flats , he said er , I 'm gon na convince the Board that it 's necessary in the interests of the firm for me to go to Austria , you see . |
| 12 | After all , I 'd seen pictures of the Queen riding in a carriage , the royal bride and groom rode in a carriage . |
| 13 | After all , I 'd seen pictures of the Queen riding in a carriage , the royal bride and groom rode in a carriage . |
| 14 | I 'd seen pictures of you … a home movie ; you were a beautiful young woman — why should n't I agree to look you up ? |
| 15 | He 'd pushed forkfuls of food into his mouth , chewing it mechanically , drinking water to make swallowing easier . |
| 16 | Stuart Balmforth , with whom I 'd done part of my National Service in the Canal Zone , was now the co-owner and a director of British Midland . |
| 17 | We 'd got word of these outlaws passing through the woods , though they never came near the villages , and then this master-carpenter and his fellow came back to us and told us what had befallen them , and we did what we could for them to set them on their way back to Shrewsbury . |
| 18 | Yeah I 'm like that but we had a erm conifer type tree it was only so big but and then I and when we we was unloading off the van , this come off and I dug a hole and stuck it in the garden , in the front garden just by the pathways right that 's that but I was washing the car one day , a nice hot day got my shirt off when I come in course I 'd brushed past it I 'd got patterns of the leaves on my on my back . |
| 19 | It must be an a , because he , he , he , he said he 'd got chance of one but it did whacking great six inch er sixteen inch wheels on ! |
| 20 | He kept on , and it was worse because he 'd got hold of the helmet now and was smashing it against the toilet . |
| 21 | Jack would n't shoot so long as he 'd got hold of him . |
| 22 | And this is what the other blacksmiths had done : they 'd got hold of the horse 's hair and the horse could n't bear it to be touched . |
| 23 | ‘ Someone told us she 'd got hold of the name of some MP who 's mixed up in child porn . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought you 'd got hold of some . ’ |
| 25 | But you 'd got hold of him , and you 'd squeezed him till the pips rattled , and you 'd done for him as a man . |
| 26 | Erm it it could have been a problem if we 'd have both been so me materialistic that we wanted to keep everything we 'd got hold of you know . |
| 27 | Er working , sweating like like er real steel men , ca turning out soldiers and er and erm e somebody 'd got hold of a mould of these er er toy soldiers you know , the old er lead soldiers that er |
| 28 | Usual anti-climax — old birds standing round a bit o' grass at t'back they 'd got lease of for a few hours , wi' a garden label saying Mrs Edna Morrison and a few bunches of chrysanths put in rows . |
| 29 | Of course he ca n't do the job that he was doing and he 'd got potential of the future with , you understand what I mean ? |
| 30 | He 'd got sort of hard in consequence . |