Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time Philip had seen him was when he 'd given him Uncle John 's medals . |
| 2 | She 'd discarded her ATS tunic and shaken out her tightly-rolled strawberry-blond hair , so that it fell seductively around her shoulders . |
| 3 | You thought I 'd set you up , because I 'd told you Newley was back in London . |
| 4 | Girl , he called her , but this last time he 'd called her Vi and written that he loved her , and he 'd never done that before . |
| 5 | He 'd called her Jenny , had n't he , and no one did that . |
| 6 | He 'd called her Rory earlier in the evening — when they 'd been dancing , when he 'd kissed her and made her completely forget she was in the middle of a crowd of people . |
| 7 | If he 'd left it Mrs Blakey would have made a fuss , she 'd have wanted to take his temperature , she 'd have asked questions he could n't answer . |
| 8 | He 'd sent her Iris Murdoch 's latest novel . |
| 9 | Here , through the space of a breath or two , she could live for a moment in the rapturous evening when she and Lal had dressed for the Hunt Ball : the evening that had given her Andrew . |
| 10 | He told Richardson that a Dutch gentleman had given him Frageria chiloensis , a native strawberry from the Spanish West Indies , but although Miller had not yet seen the fruit he quoted A. F. Frézier who ‘ in his Voyages says it grows as big as a pullet 's egg … a great rarity ’ . |
| 11 | The UN Security Council heard on Feb. 6 from UN special envoy Cyrus Vance that Franjo Tudjman , the Croatian President , had given him Croatia 's " full and unconditional acceptance " of the UN plan to deploy forces in special UN Protected Areas . |
| 12 | For what reason the woman had done it Sally-Anne did not know . |
| 13 | We paid a final courtesy call on General Aziz , Werner 's friend who had lent us Abu and his jeep to film the Toraja . |
| 14 | Just her luck ; he would have believed Myra if she had told him Claudia had a twin . |
| 15 | Piggott has come under fire from American observers following Walter Swinburn 's report that the veteran jockey had told him Mr Brooks ‘ moved terrible ’ going to the start . |
| 16 | East Clwyd coroner , David Jones , said Foreign Office officials had told him Mr Furse , of Nerquis Hall , Nercwys , near Mold , had been involved in an incident at Parati on May 30 . |
| 17 | At least the interview with Russell had told them Nicola 's investigation into drugs had taken place . |
| 18 | Mrs Foster had told them Matthew was a bad-tempered boy , and she 'd certainly been right about the bad-tempered part , though this was no boy standing here looking at her with such menace . |
| 19 | Marek had told them Taczek had confessed to the murder . |
| 20 | ‘ If anyone had told me Italy was like this — ’ |
| 21 | The birds had told me Diggs had left a few minutes earlier , so I ran back the quick way to the house , where the lights all burned as usual . |
| 22 | I mean , actually lots of things her mother had told me Janine had already told me . |
| 23 | After they had told her Wexford and Burden sat helplessly while she flung herself face-downwards on the sofa and sobbed into the cushions . |
| 24 | From what Kate had told her Lizzy had been on amphetamines for a couple of years . |
| 25 | She wanted to hurt the man who had told her Rob had n't come back , but he had tried to be kind and anyway she could n't think clearly . |
| 26 | Jeff had told her Silvia was nineteen , only four years younger than herself . |
| 27 | If somebody had told you Wales was part of Poland . |
| 28 | He had caught a glimpse of her tender expression once before when he had handed her Effie 's baby to hold , and later when she had bathed it before they had left the Buildings . |
| 29 | Everyone had called him Lord fitzAlan . |
| 30 | The Afghans had called him Iskandar . |