Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought you 'd heard me answer his knock on the door as soon as you went in there . |
| 2 | He could have saved John , but because he did n't want to look soft in front of all the important people who 'd heard him promise Herodias ' daughter whatever she wanted , Herod killed John as requested . |
| 3 | It was a song she had known since she was a child and she 'd heard her mother sing it a thousand times . |
| 4 | She 'd heard her mother talking with her cousins , exchanging notes . |
| 5 | He was gazing at her with an infuriating world-weariness suggesting he 'd heard her argument a hundred times before . |
| 6 | He 'd heard her talk to him . |
| 7 | ’ I still have my doubts , ’ she said , almost as if she 'd heard my thought . |
| 8 | By that time I 'd heard my pimp was in custody , and I started renting a flat . |
| 9 | I 'd heard your slang before . |
| 10 | Perhaps she 'd heard his panting , and the promises he 'd been making in the dark . |
| 11 | She continued to stare ahead , wondering if he 'd guessed her secret . |
| 12 | He 'd shaken her hand . |
| 13 | Leith shared many a cup of coffee with Rosemary after that , and although Rosemary seemed reluctant to talk of her marriage at first , it gradually emerged that Derek Talbot was a womaniser who 'd treated his wife shamefully . |
| 14 | The local doc — the guy who 'd helped save Andy after he almost died under the ice all those years earlier — was on holiday at the time and there was a locum , a deputising doctor in charge of the practice , except from what the locals muttered later it seemed he 'd treated his stay in Strathspeld as a holiday , too , and spent more time on river banks with a rod in his hands than at bedsides toting a stethoscope . |
| 15 | I 'd given them time to look for someone to replace me permanently . |
| 16 | I mean , he 'd given me experiences I could never have hoped for . |
| 17 | She noted the breadth of his shoulders , the long legs and dark good looks , and decided Kate had better taste than she 'd given her credit for . |
| 18 | But she 'd given her promise , albeit with great reluctance , not to confide the truth to her friend . |
| 19 | When , feeling even more foolish , she 'd given her explanation Luce forced herself to look up at him . |
| 20 | He was more modest than I 'd given him credit for . |
| 21 | All the activity around his earth , and the fact that there were a mere three hounds , had combined to make him think the open country might be safer today ; now they 'd given him proof that it was n't . |
| 22 | The last time Philip had seen him was when he 'd given him Uncle John 's medals . |
| 23 | There was also Alec , a prison officer from Wormwood Scrubs ( when he 'd given his address and next of kin on a previous camp everyone had thought he was kidding ) ; Ken , who to everyone 's delight turned up with a guitar ( were we really going to sit round a campfire singing ? ) ; and David , an aircraft engineer who after fifteen years in the Scouts could ‘ do wonderful things with ropes ’ . |
| 24 | And then they sent me a questionnaire saying they understood that he 'd he 'd given my address , and was he res , was he still resident ? |
| 25 | Once again , I 'd given my film to David . |
| 26 | Mark says , ‘ I 'd given my consent to AID but I could n't have told you how I might feel if Wendy did conceive . |
| 27 | We 'd given our lives for their advancement . |
| 28 | He always sort of backpedalled whenever he 'd exposed his feelings . ’ |
| 29 | I was beginning to suspect you 'd misplaced your marbles . ’ |
| 30 | The man took a couple of steps back as they headed for him ; but then they stopped , as if they 'd sensed his fury and found it to be a wall that they hesitated to scale . |