Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BEA planning and design procedures , far from cutting this back , sometimes seemed designed merely to codify delays . |
| 2 | Then I finally realised you could see it , but you 'd decided simply to ignore it . |
| 3 | The last time I saw you , you 'd decided never to let anyone work with you here again . |
| 4 | By early November however , as the Dublin lock-out attacks against leaders of the trade unions and the Labour Party who seemed to be obstructing his plans for a general strike , not only in Dublin , but throughout Great Britain , vilifying them as " serpents whom I shall allow to raise their foul heads and spit out their poison no longer " and as having " neither soul to be saved nor body to be kicked " Almost overnight , support for Larkin turned into denunciation of his reckless methods and of his policy of attempting to bleed British unions of funds in support of sympathy strikes which seemed destined either to fail or to lead to unwanted revolution . |
| 5 | But it had been just a momentary longing for something she seemed destined never to have . |
| 6 | She could n't really believe that he 'd weakened sufficiently to accept her presence without further protest . |
| 7 | Collecting the ladder from the shed , she searched around for the claw hammer she 'd used before to slot the gutter back under the tiles . |
| 8 | We 'd got nowhere to go at weekends , and they disappeared . |
| 9 | At that point she 'd had yet to meet its owner . |
| 10 | She 'd never have had a smash hit on Broadway if she 'd stayed here to work . |
| 11 | Perhaps she 'd stayed behind to enjoy her grandchildren . |
| 12 | Lucy had been saying nothing , letting him speak without interruption ; he 'd seemed almost to forget that she was there , but now he fell silent as if the vividness of the memories inside his head had made the words somehow redundant . |
| 13 | Not that we 'd actually fallen out , but I 'd walked away to check the markers and I had 127 to the hole and Lee said it was 147 — and that 's a difference between an eight and a seven — so I said , ‘ You got it wrong . ’ |
| 14 | Charles waited until he 'd recovered sufficiently to continue . |
| 15 | He said he was called Horn and he 'd popped across to see the Duke of Hamilton or somesuch . |
| 16 | Then I did n't anticipate , I was yanked out of the back of the court , I 'd gone there to see some proceedings with people I was involved with and all of a sudden the barrister for the defendant said , is a Mr in court ? |
| 17 | ‘ Thought you 'd gone backstage to see that little blonde . ’ |
| 18 | Tonight 's headlines ; Oxford United come back in remarkable fashion from Molyneux , trailing by three goals to nil after twenty four minutes and with four minutes remaining to go , United scored twice to equalise . |
| 19 | It was a trick I 'd learned never to do without a crash helmet . |
| 20 | Later on the flight to Nice Kate let herself regress ten years to relive once more her beloved only brother 's funeral , something she had forbidden herself to do ever since she 'd left home to go to university . |
| 21 | She 'd always known she possessed a temper , of course ; but , after one horribly painful childhood incident that was still burned into her memory like a scar , she 'd fought hard to master it , refusing ever again to let anger get the better of her . |
| 22 | She 'd worked hard to achieve it . |
| 23 | He climbed to the upper level , and from the top of the stairs he could see a wide slice of moonlight telling him that he 'd not only forgotten to lock the door behind them , in his haste he 'd neglected even to close it ; he crossed the decking and closed it now , switching the key from the outside to the inside and turning it in the lock . |
| 24 | So , he got me handbag and took off with me bottle of DFs and me book from the social and said he 'd give it me back once he 'd cashed enough to pay the bread off . |
| 25 | MR K. Bailey , of Shipley , West Yorkshire , had music running through his head when he sent me a ‘ well done ’ letter , for he attached a verse he 'd composed especially to mark my 40th anniversary and he told me to sing his words to an old song named Marjie … |
| 26 | The ‘ stuff ’ in question was Bob Ivie 's Hawaiian special ; between them they 'd managed almost to empty the bowl that Wayne had sneaked out . |
| 27 | Forester had been perfectly correct , the happenings at Langstone had been gross and illogical ; he 'd chosen simply to deny involvement and ignore them . |
| 28 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 29 | Yet he would spend hours pleading with a reluctant employer to take on a boy he knew needed desperately to work . |
| 30 | He looked taken aback to see the policeman . |