Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd met him at one of Klein 's parties — a casual encounter — and had given him very little conscious thought subsequently . |
| 2 | She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business . |
| 3 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 4 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 5 | None of the nurses spoke to me , nothing , till 2 o'clock that afternoon , which I 'd had her at 7.30 in the morning … |
| 6 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 7 | I did n't know she had this cold and she 'd had it for ten |
| 8 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 9 | She and Sheila had had disagreements before — not really surprising when you 'd known someone for twelve years , since the first day they had peered at the college noticeboard together . |
| 10 | They 'd found them after five days , with Sandy 's parents hammering at Ted every minute of the time . |
| 11 | He 'd done it again , she realised in amazement — with just a few choice words he 'd knocked her for six . |
| 12 | A few months after I left I met someone else and we had a wonderful relationship for a few months , but then guilt reared its ugly head and Marie persuaded me to go back because I 'd left her with two children . |
| 13 | Lucy knew she had to tell him something , so she said , ‘ She got mad with me when I admitted you 'd taken me for two bush walks . |
| 14 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 15 | W. J. Arkell , king of the Jurassic , had placed it in 1933 at the base of the Callovian Stage . |
| 16 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 17 | My agent had exposed himself as one of the conspirators . |
| 18 | The moans and songs lie low and gentle , then rise to a wild screaming force of sound as though all the ghosts of time had gathered themselves into one great , explosive cry . |
| 19 | A still point in this maelstrom was Sergeant Black , who had tucked himself between two of the sheltering twelve-foot evergreens planted to cut off the east wind from the ring . |
| 20 | ‘ We had heard nothing for two weeks , ’ the man said nervously . |
| 21 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 22 | Pippin , the first of the line , had destined it for his first-born , the young Charlemagne in the 750s ; Charlemagne had assigned it in 790 to his son Charles , later labelled primogenitus and designated heir to the regnum Francorum ( though he predeceased his father in 811 ) . |
| 23 | Mohawk Grand Chief Joe Norton warned that there would be further violence unless the Quebec authorities agreed to return policing of the reservation to the control of the Indians , who had policed it for 11 years prior to the outbreak of the 1990 trouble . |
| 24 | It came into force for those states which had ratified it in 1953 . |
| 25 | Michael also took away the distinction of being the youngest archer ever to win the contest from Ben Hird , who had won it aged nineteen in 1900 . |
| 26 | They were continual concrete evidence of the sleight of hand which had conjured me from one world to another . |
| 27 | It belonged to another College , which had let it to one of its fellows . |
| 28 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 29 | Whenever the two women were together , the conflict of loyalties had torn her in two . |
| 30 | The Republicans had committed themselves in 1920 to remaining outside the League of Nations , and there was no serious attempt to reverse this policy subsequently . |