Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd only met him once , and then only briefly . |
| 2 | I 'd only met her once , so perhaps it was her way of telling me or him or someone else that she was ‘ in the know ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd only met her once before that evening , but I feel we 'll be friends for life . ’ |
| 4 | It was a moment before Carson was able to place the researcher 's voice — after all , he 'd only heard it once before but he said , ‘ Yes , I 'm alone . |
| 5 | So if he 'd only got it recently , it would n't have been found . |
| 6 | She was one of the family and poor Jack , that was the father , he thought they 'd all treated her badly … . ’ |
| 7 | He 'd already kidnapped her once , had n't he ? |
| 8 | ‘ I 've still got the knife , ’ she said , but she knew she 'd already said it too many times . |
| 9 | And you reckoned then you 'd already got one nearly full |
| 10 | Well , the way I 'd always done it before was , change it to value , before I combined it . |
| 11 | She 'd always considered herself so strong , so immune to the temptations of the flesh ; yet last night she 'd discovered a depth of passion within her that had shaken her profoundly . |
| 12 | And all this time , people though he 'd always had it easy , him with his women and his cheekbones and his income . |
| 13 | She knew that he had been Eddie 's best friend — that was why she 'd always found it so hard to accept that he could have deliberately driven her brother off the track . |
| 14 | The use of the collective pronoun in Charity 's invitation to the Antelope Public House reminded Charles how cliquey he 'd always found it there . |
| 15 | I was playing loads of rave music , and at the end they were begging us not to go off because it was the first time they 'd ever heard it properly . |
| 16 | I wondered if I 'd ever appreciated her properly before . |
| 17 | Not that he 'd ever admitted it before , even to himself . |
| 18 | I told him my Vanessa story and he told me his and we 'd both heard them before ! |
| 19 | He 'd probably dismissed her altogether by now as fickle , shallow and all too easily swayed by other people . |
| 20 | Stories he covered during his long association with the Independent included the historic meeting between Terence O'Neill and Sean Lemass , the suspension of Stormont — he 'd now seen it both open and close — the Sunningdale talks ( ‘ the Press corps played a lot of poker ’ ) and many more turning points in history . |
| 21 | I 'd even driven one once — a mad bass guitarist friend of mine , who 'd hit the minor big league with a couple of records , bought three of them to race around the M25 orbital motorway . |
| 22 | Adam looked ashen , sick , gripping Undry as if his life depended on it ; and Ruth knew he 'd almost killed her just then . |
| 23 | Only that perhaps he had manufactured some reason so that she would be able to overcome her own personal fears of being alone with him ; given her an excuse to accept his invitation to re-enter the apartment where he 'd previously abused her both physically and verbally . |
| 24 | She 'd never liked them much ; in fact she had only kept them up so long because Mary Connon long ago , almost on her first visit to the house , had been openly patronizing about them . |
| 25 | ‘ Honest , I 'd never seen 'im before , I just bumped into 'im in the fog and it made me sprain me ankle . |
| 26 | Chief Inspector Kuhlmann put down the phone and looked at Kurt Meyer as though he 'd never seen him before . |
| 27 | I 'd never seen him before in my life ! |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd never seen him before . |
| 29 | I 'd told her not to worry and that he was one of the lads , although I 'd never seen him before , and we were just waiting for her to go before we started the party . |
| 30 | She 'd never seen him before . |