Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd heard stories of women being in labour for twelve or fifteen hours with their first child so I was quite pleased . |
| 2 | She 'd heard stories about people being attacked and their handbags stolen and so decided not to walk across town alone . |
| 3 | He 'd heard loads of acceleration and loads of noise . |
| 4 | She 'd heard Lucy at meetings , fielding worries , steering the conversation around the reefs and sandbanks of ego and uncertainty . |
| 5 | She remembered how helplessly she 'd given way to Jake 's madness on Starr Hills . |
| 6 | ‘ Only the day before , you came barging into the flat , insinuating that I 'd given information to Richard Blake . |
| 7 | She did not like the way he 'd dismissed Nathan in order to talk to her . |
| 8 | She remembered now why she 'd hated sport at school . |
| 9 | Hereford united travelled north to Rochdale , only to slip to 17th in the 4th division . |
| 10 | Leonora bristled as she marched into the other room , realising she 'd expected murmurs of appreciation to greet her offering . |
| 11 | If she 'd expected signs of embarrassment or even an apology , it was obvious that she 'd miscalculated . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I suppose I 'd expected expressions of grief , probably pages and pages of it . |
| 13 | She 'd saved Blazer from slaughter . |
| 14 | I had no intention of trying to explain the whereabouts of Sunil 's goods to Sunil or his henchmen until I 'd made contact with Zaria , and if she did n't come across soon there was a good chance she 'd find me hanging from a Christmas tree by the neck . |
| 15 | At the height of their affair they 'd made love from dusk to dawn on several occasions ; toying and teasing , stopping to bathe so they 'd have the bliss of working up a second sweat . |
| 16 | Simmons seemed saved shots from Herbert and Aries and did well to turn away a goalbound shot from Appleton . |
| 17 | It was on the tip of her tongue to tell him that she thought she 'd seen Amy on Friday night . |
| 18 | Yeah I thought I 'd seen cloud on top on the hills . |
| 19 | He 'd seen patients in calipers but did n't know how to do it himself . |
| 20 | Connections : I 'd seen Nevil at Sedgeley House ; I 'd seen Jo at the Mimosa Club where Nevil was supposed to work , or at least beat up barmen . |
| 21 | She 'd undergone treatment at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital two weeks before . |
| 22 | He 'd pushed forkfuls of food into his mouth , chewing it mechanically , drinking water to make swallowing easier . |
| 23 | Last month she 'd phoned England from Turkey to say she was buying supplies for Kurdish refugees in the north of the country . |
| 24 | He 'd hung Irishmen like apples from the gallows tree . |
| 25 | Yes oh yes , she 'd got Lucy in bed , made love — had sex ? — fucked with ? — there was n't really a phrase to fit how utterly strange the whole thing had made her feel . |
| 26 | Amiss decided not to mention the dead bodies he 'd been coming across since he 'd got chummy with Jim Milton . |
| 27 | She 'd got stockings for Susan — only one pair , but nice ones . |
| 28 | Erm , from what I knew of erm I knew he 'd got access to firearms . |
| 29 | I told her what I 'd told Erica at Tremayne 's dinner , and said it might not lead to anything helpful . |
| 30 | I 'd had stitches after Jeremy . |