Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF ONLY the woman had paused for a moment to inspect the hastily scrawled felt tip notice at the top of the stairs : ‘ I am sorry for any inconvenience caused to all our customers during the period that the down escalator has been out of service . |
| 2 | Thomas Tate , of Battersea Training School ( for teachers ) , whose students had to help look after the pigs ; Charles Godfrey , who helped found mathematics education as a discipline in its own right . |
| 3 | I 'd heard North Shore aficionados reminiscing about the ten-point tube Pottz had caught here back in '82 . |
| 4 | I had a little Fender lap-steel guitar , and I 'd heard bottleneck players and blues players and I kept trying to play like that and I just could n't figure it out . |
| 5 | Though she had nothing remotely suitable with her to wear to a party , over the past hour or so , as she 'd arranged salami slices and stuffed olives and listened to Agnese and Filippo 's bubbly chatter , she 'd found herself slipping into a party mood . |
| 6 | When she 'd boarded Water Gypsy yesterday , she had spotted some photographs in the main cabin , one a head and shoulders , the other a provocative , sexy pose . |
| 7 | On February 19 we wrote of the chap round Carmel Road way who 'd installed security lighting after two burglaries further up the street . |
| 8 | Well I , I met him actually through er I was nursing erm a baby , she was only three months old and she 'd had , she 'd caught , from her older sister she 'd caught whooping cough . |
| 9 | ‘ My daughter told me she 'd spilt nail varnish on my new bedroom carpet . ’ |
| 10 | Considering this question , with some surprise Robbie realised that had never been her aim — until she 'd met Fen Marshall . |
| 11 | Robbie was becoming almost accustomed to sleepless nights since she 'd met Fen Marshall . |
| 12 | I 'd seen pub bands , that was all . |
| 13 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 14 | A few years earlier she 'd undergone fertility treatment at the Victoria Hospital in Swindon , and in the light of new research suggesting a possible link between such treatment and premature dementia , her family 's demanding an inquiry . |
| 15 | Something of a scholar , and Leistritz said he 'd done farm work before . |
| 16 | He 'd suffered head injuries and had been stabbed in the neck . |
| 17 | ‘ They said he was a spy , and that he 'd sold Government secrets to another country . |
| 18 | do you remember when you thought you 'd got wood worm in our new table |
| 19 | I saw her on the way to the doctors and she 'd thought she 'd got chicken pox . |
| 20 | My mother made me take up tap dancing , because I 'd got sparrow legs . |
| 21 | She 'd got designer t-shirts |
| 22 | But I never once thought.I really thought she 'd got kidney trouble , or thyroid trouble . |
| 23 | She was that looking forward to living in the Daye House , once they 'd got planning permission . ’ |
| 24 | And the first letter told me that he 'd got stomach upset . |
| 25 | It was Bailey who 'd started the fire , but Paterson who 'd helped wash Bailey 's jeans which had been stained with blood from the break in at the parachute hanger . |
| 26 | She 'd had chicken pox which she picked up while she was on steroids rescribed for an eye infection . |
| 27 | One of the subscribers taking part in the trials said : ‘ I would n't have had the problems I had with malicious calls a few years ago if I 'd had Caller Display then . ’ |
| 28 | I 'd had mew hair dyed ginger — not punk — but a lovely red |
| 29 | United visit Villa Park and Atkinson wistfully linked the past with the present when he said : ‘ If I 'd had Dean Saunders at United , we would have won the Championship . |
| 30 | United visit Villa Park , and Atkinson wistfully linked the past with the present when he said : ‘ If I 'd had Dean Saunders at United , we would have won the Championship and I might still be manager of Manchester United . ’ |