Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided I did n't want a toffee-apple any more , even though I 'd seen one with a great wedge of toffee stuck to the bottom , so I pretended I 'd seen Marie passing in front of the window and I ran out and shouted , " Wait on , Marie , I 've an important message for you . " |
| 2 | But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’ |
| 3 | It was n't until I had to have a full medical two years later that I found I 'd got hookworm . |
| 4 | caught I 've got peanuts in the cup |
| 5 | Any consideration of deaf education should begin with the question of levels of achievement in deaf children ; very often in the past , however , there have been intervening arguments proposed which have directed attention from the central purpose of all educators . |
| 6 | Well we had a secretary of state here who is now minister of transport , I do hope he 's watching this programme seeing as I promised we have had gains and proposals . |
| 7 | Users also reported they had increased confidence , were more in control of their lives and the programme helped take their mind off their problems . |
| 8 | The French police ran a check on fingerprints , and found they 'd got Puddephat . |
| 9 | For a change of subject , they chose Sniffy Wilson , one of them having heard how colleagues had been tailing two armed members of the Goad gang , Donovan and Wytcherly , and at the end of a hair-raising fifteen minutes found they had arrested Sniffy as well . |
| 10 | She also found they had changed position during sleep and were now lying spoon-fashion , his arm draped over her , her back resting on his chest , her knees bent , her buttocks tucked snugly against him . |
| 11 | ‘ I had n't even made the connection until a friend mentioned he had seen Tim in the papers with all the Princess Anne business . ’ |
| 12 | He was taken to the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital where doctors found he had broken ribs , a damaged spine and minor head injuries . |
| 13 | Chatted with him and found he 'd missed breakfast . |
| 14 | Neither of them mentioned what had taken place outside the school and neither of them would . |
| 15 | Told I have broken Borough policy by recommending custodial maximum on lad . |
| 16 | ‘ Because I believed you 'd told Marianne about my past , ’ she said quietly . |
| 17 | It is still not clear whether Ms Gibson believed she had made arrangements for Gemma to be looked after while she was away . |
| 18 | Dacourt estimated we had killed scores of our assailants but only three corpses were dragged in , all of them casualties of the ladder which had been pushed away from the outer wall . |
| 19 | Hours were spent paddling around in the dark on the Suez Canal until they believed they had mastered handling of the inflatables . |
| 20 | We assumed they had taken care of the details and Ayling and Pascoe believed everything was all right . ’ |
| 21 | Johnny — who firmly believed he had fooled Fergie 's family , her lawyers , Prince Andrew and even the Queen about his intentions — arranged for Fergie and the two little princesses to holiday in Thailand and Indonesia . |
| 22 | Mr Harty added he had seen signs saying fishing was for members only but had not taken any notice of them . |
| 23 | Once , if addressed in such a tone , he would have denied his hunger stiffly , even while it stared nakedly out of his eyes ; but now it seemed he had learned sense enough not to climb on his high horse quite so easily and unprofitably . |
| 24 | I mean , I can remember seeing an interview with er , John Geilgud and he 'd he 'd done Hamlet many years ago and er but he said he 'd it was in a totally different way you know , different |
| 25 | He agreed you 'd made mistakes , but said that a good King should always be generous , as our King is . |
| 26 | He paraded the section and asked who had attacked Gionesca . |
| 27 | But the loneliness appeared to be over when , in October , TODAY exclusively revealed she had wed husband number four during a trip to Norway where she was also reunited with Nicolas after 10 years . |
| 28 | Stated I had done report to justify it and had the expenditure approved — not my fault . |
| 29 | Yes , that er , the recommendations that er , presumably our service approved which has got structure in it , does that er |
| 30 | The results of one of her routine antenatal tests she 'd had on arrival in France showed she had raised levels of antibodies in her blood . |