Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this geezer from Bedlam yeah got stopped the other day in this car yeah , he was pissed , he was tripping and he was speeding yeah , no M O T , no licence , no tax , no ruddy insurance yeah |
| 2 | ALAN Hickman from Derbyshire became worried about the advice he was receiving over his pension transfer when he realised that each expert he consulted recommended a different course of action . |
| 3 | I am not surprised that the right hon. Gentleman avoided the first point , because the report to which my hon. Friend the Member for Poole ( Mr. Ward ) referred produced the following answer within the Labour party : ’ Some argue it will highlight one of our weaker points ’ . |
| 4 | Most members of the RUC we encountered used an interpretative process which contains a set of typifications for distinguishing between ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ Catholics , as for ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ people generally . |
| 5 | A year later she and her son Samuel travelled to Bury St Edmunds , where they helped found a Congregational church . |
| 6 | Everyone knew this was going on but the vast profits involved generated a convenient blanket of economic hypocrisy . |
| 7 | The strategy they used involved an ingenious mixture of design and chance . |
| 8 | The village they found lined the ancient Akeman Street , the Roman road which linked St Albans with Cirencester . |
| 9 | The village they found lined the ancient Akeman Street , the Roman road which linked St Albans with Cirencester . |
| 10 | I got caught last week because I got fed the wrong line . |
| 11 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |
| 12 | ‘ It was probably something he 'd heard an old actor say , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I originally decided to meet you because I 'd heard the civil police were n't letting ‘ sleeping spies lie ’ . |
| 14 | He 'd heard the daily summary coming through some time after midnight , but he had n't bothered to check it ; anything important or relevant and Stoneley would have telephoned him direct , and there were too many big shadows and dark corners in the schoolroom for his liking . |
| 15 | She 'd given a false name so he could n't trace her . |
| 16 | Driving on , he told Paula that Harry Butler was on the way , that he 'd given a brief description of Evelyn so Butler would recognize her , plus her address . |
| 17 | The prosecution said it was a tragic case ; a brilliant academic who 'd killed his quiet , middle-aged parents , for whom he 'd developed a consuming and irrational hatred . |
| 18 | If he 'd had his hands on her for one minute , he could have given her something to remember him by ; if only he 'd spat a single obscenity into her ear before running off , it would have been something . |
| 19 | Then at the last moment he 'd pressed the small jeweller 's box into her hand . |
| 20 | They 'd joined the International Terrorist Freemasonry … ’ |
| 21 | He 'd joined the International Brigade just before Franco 's final victories and been sent back when he was on his way to Cardiff to catch the potato boat to Bilbao . |
| 22 | Funny girl Pamela Stephenson looked like she 'd joined the smile-high club yesterday as she jetted into Britain with pop star George Michael . |
| 23 | he 'd punctured the fucking upstairs gas pipe |
| 24 | She 'd intended the pleasure-bound figures by the lake to be stylized and realised that they looked sinister , as if an architect 's drawing was peopled by a sideshow of grotesques . |
| 25 | It was late in the afternoon now , later than I thought it would be , and shadows were long on the grass before us , so that by the time we 'd travelled the leafy lane to Flanders Hall and had followed the road past the Grange to West Burton village green , it was early evening . |
| 26 | She 'd gathered the fragrant blooms from a tub outside on the narrow balcony and deeply inhaled its sweet perfume before deciding to wear it in her hair . |
| 27 | So then I had to put in for another grant because he 'd smashed every damn thing . |
| 28 | Yeah I went and got it yesterday but they 'd had a break in and you should 've seen it they 'd smashed the front door , it were all smashed in . |
| 29 | This went on for three hours , by which time they 'd attracted a sizeable body of fans into the hotel foyer , much to the consternation of the management who had to call the police to break up the party . |
| 30 | She 'd enjoyed a wide circle of friends , a coterie of the bored wives of the rich , except that when together their collective boredom was no longer ennui but just time-wasting . |