Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 2 | ‘ If only I 'd met you a year ago . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But I 'd sent you a cheque to cover my share of the quarter . ’ |
| 4 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 5 | Patterson 's eyes flickered as if I 'd given him a straw to grasp , but I pressed on . |
| 6 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 7 | You 'd think I 'd given him the moon . ’ |
| 8 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 9 | I felt as if I 'd handed him a loaded shotgun and said shoot . ’ |
| 10 | I 've got , you gave me some last time and I 'd got them the week before , so I 've got enough . |
| 11 | Cos I 'd got her a tube of toothpaste . |
| 12 | If I 'd told them a tale like that then they would have had me down at the station before I could blink ! ’ |
| 13 | Would you believe that he said I 've got to work on the aeroplane this week , I 've got the week off , I 've got to work on the aeroplane , I , you know , I shall be alright , down the airfield , er on the Wednesday he arrived to see how we were getting on , complaining like made because he had n't been able to find where the cottage was , I said but I 'd left you a detailed map , |
| 14 | I 'd left you the full address , and the telephone number and a fully detailed map . |
| 15 | He 'd say , " Leave it , it does n't matter , " but if I 'd left it the place would be a pigsty . |
| 16 | ‘ She agreed eight o'clock when I spoke to her yesterday , after I 'd offered her every other hour of the day . |
| 17 | By the time I 'd had her a fortnight , and she was about five weeks old , her trust in me was growing . |
| 18 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way , because I had misunderstood him a bit . |
| 19 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 20 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 21 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 22 | I wish I had landed him a facer ! ’ |
| 23 | By the time I had heard it a fifth time , one of football 's most respected managers stood accused of everything from gross indecency to impotence . |
| 24 | I had sent her a copy of my memoir , but her noncommittal letter of thanks had given no indication of whether she had read it . |
| 25 | ‘ There was every reason for me to suspect that the present was just such a case : the medical cause of the death was perfectly well known to the family — indeed I had sent them a copy of the pathologist 's report . |
| 26 | I had called it a ‘ wee bridal veil ’ — obviously foxed by the scale . |
| 27 | There was a silence , as if I had asked him a very profound question . |
| 28 | Trying to escape by going to the only other bar in Woodstock , where I was chased around a table by The Psychedelic Furs because I had given them a bad review in a music paper . |
| 29 | I had given them the idea that maybe they would become torturers . ’ |
| 30 | Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! |