Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd intended to make a sharp retort , but even to her own ears her voice sounded tremulous , full of longing that had n't been satisfied . |
| 2 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 3 | She was walking home from a party in the early hours of Sunday morning she 'd stopped to use the toilets in St Giles when she was attacked … |
| 4 | She seemed resolved to sign the document . |
| 5 | And he did not say that , even if they 'd wished to finish the play with his understudy , they could n't , because Alex Household had run out of the theatre immediately after the shooting . |
| 6 | The small factory she 'd approached to undertake the making of the curtains , cushions and loose covers told her they 'd be ready to start in a few weeks ' time , and even allowing for this wildly optimistic schedule , she felt she ought to know when to expect delivery of the fabrics . |
| 7 | Since he continued at the same time to deny any intention to stand , the letter seemed designed to test the ground while adding to the ferment in the parliamentary party — especially among those MPs sitting in vulnerable , marginal seats . |
| 8 | Every room was supervised by hideous paintings of humourless De Belvings and all the furniture seemed designed to inflict an ache upon the muscles of the human body . |
| 9 | It looked good to the eye , it felt firm underfoot , the Land Rover had no problems , but the wheelbarrow seemed designed to plough a furrow . |
| 10 | A rather tasteless melange of Wellington and Edith Cresson , Nelson and Trafalgar seemed designed to provide the missing edge and allay the self doubts . |
| 11 | The ceremony seemed designed to express the triumph of the united Angevin family over the old enemy of Toulouse . |
| 12 | I 'd expected to find a vacuous mess . |
| 13 | There were occasions , also , when the assistant on duty would forget the time , and suddenly realise it was two minutes to the hour and she 'd forgotten to do the observation . |
| 14 | Er , and I 'd forgotten to take the money up before Christmas so it was still here yesterday . |
| 15 | The horrible truth was slowly dawning on me : I 'd been so preoccupied with finding things like Wellington boots and torches , not to mention boning up on my Enid Blyton , that I 'd forgotten to read the small print . |
| 16 | Tonight , with Marlin working until nine and a late dinner planned , she 'd decided to spend the early evening assigning and wrapping the presents she 'd accumulated on her various Fifth Avenue sorties , sweetening her labours with wine and music . |
| 17 | After they 'd decided to restore a 200-year-old country cottage on the outskirts of Stroud , Gloucester , housewife Amanda Rawson and her husband scouted around auction rooms looking for furniture to suit it . |
| 18 | I 'd decided to leave the ‘ coo' de grass until the morning when I would feel more up to it . |
| 19 | Once we 'd decided to have a baby we had had to find a Father . |
| 20 | We 'd decided to have a ploughman 's lunch or some such at a likely-looking pub we 'd seen in the next village . |
| 21 | I knew that she 'd decided to have the child adopted , but then I was n't involved . |
| 22 | After an evening of agonising and , now , almost unbearable waiting , she 'd decided to ring the police . |
| 23 | He was delighted with all we 'd done to make the house habitable in under a week and greatly enjoyed partying with friends . |
| 24 | He 'd applied to join the police in his final year at university ; it had been an unfashionable thing to do but he 'd given it a lot of careful thought . |
| 25 | There is no treatment available for the condition in China and Sheng seemed destined to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair . |
| 26 | We seemed destined to replay the same parts in an old story . |
| 27 | They then seemed destined to suffer the same fate as Jack Handy 's firm : a sharp decline due to financial extravagance and a lack of closely controlled management . |
| 28 | Described by Nixon as " a third-rate burglary " , this incident seemed destined to become a mere footnote in history . |
| 29 | They seemed destined to study every single house exhaustively . |
| 30 | While all her instincts balked against becoming too enmeshed with Vitor , she seemed destined to fight a losing battle . |