Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] he [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was sure I was going to be sent to Siberia but I 'd given him all my film and all the pictures that I 'd taken already . |
| 2 | They 'd given him some papers , and somebody had gone to the cashier for his money ( it made a nice fat bulge in his hip pocket ; he patted it now and again as he walked , just to make sure it was still there ) and eventually he 'd signed some papers . |
| 3 | ‘ I think it would have been brilliant if they 'd given him more of a chance and if he 'd given a bit more . |
| 4 | She 'd caught him off-guard again , because this was n't what he was expecting . |
| 5 | Well he thought your dad was buying that mould from Jim so he did say that , he , he 'd lent him that book on how to actually build them , but that 's |
| 6 | Now she 'd made him angry again . |
| 7 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 8 | She 'd seen him many times then , everyone else had dropped him , and only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter . |
| 9 | I 'd seen him earlier that night , here at the house , behaving in a way that made me very anxious to find out what he was doing here on Moila . ’ |
| 10 | She 'd seen him earlier , talking to one of the men setting up the car ramps on the far side of the field . |
| 11 | They thought he was a bit peculiar , maybe , but they 'd accepted him all the same . |
| 12 | ‘ I love you , ’ she told him , as she 'd told him many times before . |
| 13 | And his face was lined , though at first she 'd thought him young . |
| 14 | She had n't simply evaded him ; she 'd evaded him each time with an ease that had left him looking like a fool . |
| 15 | I 'd called him Chinless Wonder on the same basis that regular enlisted men in the Army call Sandhurst graduates ‘ Ruperts ’ . |
| 16 | She leaned on Craig 's shoulder as if she 'd known him all her life . |
| 17 | I 'd known him all my life . |
| 18 | She 'd known him less than a week and was already on to his annoying habits . |
| 19 | There she 'd found him alone — pretending to have forgotten it was Christmas — all the rest of the family having tactfully cried off . |
| 20 | Unless they 'd taken him captive . |
| 21 | She 'd tossed him some bait , and he 'd swallowed the rod . |
| 22 | He had returned her stare and she 'd sent him one of her brilliant , flashing smiles , but his features had remained completely impassive . |
| 23 | They 'd kept him awake for many an hour prior to an op . |
| 24 | No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him . |
| 25 | I was pleased as punch when yer farvver came 'ome an' told me Joe Maitland 'ad offered 'im that job . |
| 26 | Eliot 's renunciation of primitivism and sexuality recalls this phrasing while pulling away from the world which had fascinated him earlier ; he sees from the fertile ‘ slotted window bellied like the fig 's fruit ’ how |
| 27 | And he would sing to himself in his house or in his boat the song which his father had taught him many years ago . |
| 28 | His muse had taught him Irish — his nurse had taught him Irish , beg your pardon — and shaped his rude imagination by the broken lights of Irish myth . |
| 29 | His muse had taught him Irish — his nurse had taught him Irish , beg your pardon — and shaped his rude imagination by the broken lights of Irish myth . |
| 30 | He wound his window down and thought momentarily of his brother-in-law , Eddie Kruger , who had taught him all the conversational German he knew . |