Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of us got caught this way years ago , but I do n't think yarns for weaving are sold at Knitting Shows anymore — at least I have n't heard the complaints that I used to do . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , the time-scale involved led both parties to conclude that discussions to merge the two organisations should not be continued . ’ |
| 3 | Now you got fed this morning Patch . |
| 4 | It was n't the first time she 'd heard that kind of comment . |
| 5 | I 'd heard that noise before , but never from Selina . |
| 6 | When they 'd heard that name , they knew they must take the place . |
| 7 | Well , cos it was in town , it was nearer to shops , and erm I 'd heard that keeping Balloon Woods ' flats warm was costing people a hell of a lot of money . |
| 8 | He was n't sure he 'd heard that right . |
| 9 | The cab drove slowly away through the bleak night while Meredith sat without moving , painfully remembering where she 'd heard that phrase before : ‘ Beggar myself ’ . |
| 10 | It was a song she 'd heard many times in the past , one that had stayed in the popular charts for months . |
| 11 | Already , she 'd heard all kinds of rustlings and scufflings from the floor above . |
| 12 | Jeremy Healy 's music was loud and passionate , and designer/stylist Judy Blame agreed that it was the only decent stuff he 'd heard all week , adding that French Djs are the worst on the planet and that there is virtually no point in clubbing in Paris until the situation is remedied . |
| 13 | " I phoned one of my neighbours to find out if she 'd heard any noise from our flat . |
| 14 | ‘ We could all be dead in six months , ’ she replied , shaking her head with an air of someone who 'd heard those sort of stories before . |
| 15 | Since that afternoon two days ago they 'd treated each other with a cool formality , a style initiated by Roman on the return trip from the Blue Grotto , when he 'd seemed to withdraw into a kind of amused reserve , as if he 'd tested her out in some way and now lost interest in the original conquest . |
| 16 | actually no that was the night she was really pissed off because erm people were paying more attention to me than they were to her , I do n't know why , it 's because I decide that I 'm gon na be really outgoing and I really do and I was really loud and really boisterous and she 's quite resigned like that and she thought I sh bit shagged off with me and then like I was doing , there was this really good looking bloke and he was like we , we 'd given each other eyes over the bar in this pub and Lottie goes well if you do n't hurry up with him I 'm gon na go and have him , if you do n't hurry up , you know , and just like marched over I said Charlotte give me a break |
| 17 | She 'd given more time to thinking about Lucy than anything else for months . |
| 18 | I mean I remembered some of it , I , I remember hearing something that she 'd given some bits downstairs |
| 19 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
| 20 | The day after we all met you she assured me she 'd say nothing damaging and said she 'd convinced Merlyn who 'd arranged another meeting on the boat . |
| 21 | Well , up until we 'd received this letter from er the new chairman designate , er Bob Reid , not seriously at all . |
| 22 | He was finally given a pension , but by that time he was old , he was half paralysed , and he was nearly blind , and he died in eighteen thirty-six , only six years after he 'd received this recognition and this pension . |
| 23 | ‘ He told me he 'd posted that letter and sent my Christmas card home . ’ |
| 24 | Apparently you 'd referred some request to them — for access to MI5 and MI6 files . ’ |
| 25 | It was hard to believe that a few moments earlier he 'd aroused that snake-pit of desire inside her . |
| 26 | Isabelle might have left her the case , but she 'd hidden these things away , making sure they would n't be discovered at least while her husband was alive . |
| 27 | All Nottingham was beautiful and along there 'd got great big flags and they 'd trimmed all Christmas they 'd they 'd sewed all Christmas things on them . |
| 28 | ‘ Simon told me , last night , ’ began Gazzer , ‘ that he 'd smashed that kiosk up . |
| 29 | More human than she 'd looked all morning , he thought , realizing he had taken against his witness at least partly because she was alive and the amusing , lively , feminine creature that had been Angela Morgan was not . |
| 30 | Both the Blacks and the Whites interviewed contained several people who had had some unpleasant experience of the police , though this only occasionally ( for the Blacks ) included a racial element . |