Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is probably because they are all adapted to forest or woodland conditions and none of them has developed the close-knit social formations that are characteristic of open-country animals . |
| 2 | I I I think erm a lot of teachers would now look back on those days with er a certain fondness now bearing in mind what 's what 's happened since and the the the succession of education secretaries we 've had since since then I mean had the only one in recent years who I would say has attempted a genuine dialogue with the teachers and tried to do something constructive is John McGregor . |
| 3 | I got caught last week because I got fed the wrong line . |
| 4 | I got to , when I was going to the little school I got told the little ones . |
| 5 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
| 6 | I originally decided to meet you because I 'd heard the civil police were n't letting ‘ sleeping spies lie ’ . |
| 7 | I 'd seen the naked soul of my Mother . |
| 8 | Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ? |
| 10 | I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’ |
| 11 | But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing . |
| 12 | I 'd believed the English boy would protect me from these sounds . |
| 13 | There was general approval that I 'd asked the right question — no one back in the newsroom realised how hard it had been . |
| 14 | Nicola is such a brilliant student I 'd asked the Royal Ballet to give her an audition . ’ |
| 15 | But if so I felt that I had a chance of retrieving the situation , once I 'd made the Fraxillian delivery . |
| 16 | We all just sat there like Mickey Mouse was dead or something , and then we got on the train and went back home and did n't say anything to each other , and all the kids at school thought I 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 17 | She sent , they were in those little strips , she sent three in for me , she said and have you tasted these I said I do n't think so , so she sent them , I 'd tasted the other ones but not those white ones so she sent three of them in for us . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's a ‘ 59 Stratocaster , although I 've got a different neck on it now , because I 'd worn the original one to the point where every time I re-fretted it , I had to fill in the holes ! |
| 19 | When I met her , I thought I 'd met the ideal woman . |
| 20 | Within six months , I 'd repaid the forty-pound loan from my mom-in-law . |
| 21 | It 's almost like the ceremony of ordaining a bishop in fact if I 'd turned the wrong page we could have ended up with a bishop rather than an abbot you know |
| 22 | But I 'd bought the wrong weedkiller , it was Tumbleweed and I found out later it 's only lethal to tropical fish , apparently I should have bought pathklear which is much stronger . |
| 23 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
| 24 | I 'd found the candle-making kit in the cupboard under the stairs five or six years ago , and experimented with the colours and consistencies for months before hitting on the idea of using the wax as a wasp-prison . |
| 25 | Because I 'd passed the magical sixty years of age mark , I was now officially an old-age pensioner and that apparently made me technically ‘ vulnerable ’ under the provisions of the Homeless Persons Act . |
| 26 | I 'd cleaned the spurious wounds and known humiliation , shame and hopelessness and for those very reasons , loved her the more . |
| 27 | Lisabeth was out of her flat before I 'd closed the front door behind me . |
| 28 | Michael , I 've had to work very , very exact my lad and these things I 'd got the sliding gages and put them on and they 'd been the same at the front as they have at the back and that 's the thickness as well . |
| 29 | Yeah I 'm sorry I 'm a little bit late but , you know , I just wanted to make sure I 'd got the right turnings cos erm |
| 30 | Erm I wanted to make sure I 'd got the right turning I think was the answer but there was no reason to say I had problems finding you or I was held up I 'm sorry for that or , or anything , there was no , there was no actual acknowledgement or reason for being late . |