Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I really felt I 'd given myself totally to African life . " |
| 2 | I 'd hidden them away for your birthday . ’ |
| 3 | I thought they 'd hidden me away in a cupboard . |
| 4 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 5 | Before she 'd realised his intention , he 'd turned her deftly into his arms , pulled her with surprising gentleness against the hard warmth of his chest . |
| 6 | I must admit , I think it had been better if they 'd moved it all over the weekend and then just put it straight again on the Monday , that would be . |
| 7 | It took her a week to make , that dress , she 'd made it specially for the dance at the police cadets ’ college , and then she 'd been so shy she 'd spent most of the evening in the Ladies . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't think for one minute that he 'd made it there under his own steam , ’ Simone murmured , and André laughed smugly . |
| 9 | First he 'd whisked her away without so much as a by-your-leave , and then he had blocked her meeting with Adam . |
| 10 | I told Spruce a bit about Amy and Hereward 's marriage and I did mention that I 'd seen her here on Friday night and Saturday morning . |
| 11 | Now that I 'd seen them together like that I started to have fantasies of being invited to watch them together , or to take photographs of them . |
| 12 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 13 | She 'd felt that strength when he 'd scooped her easily into his arms . |
| 14 | The first time he 'd seen her — all those years ago — he 'd felt something close to panic . |
| 15 | No , but eh , another word that was I 've heard used , and it was , actually it was quite annoying because the chap used it , used it wrongly , but I did n't know that he 'd used it wrongly at the time . |
| 16 | ‘ A girl as attractive as Iris Sunderby , if you 'd got her alone in your hacienda … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't tell you before , because I did n't want you thinking it was n't convenient to come and stay or something , darling ! ’ she 'd told her apologetically over coffee after lunch . |
| 18 | I 'd been drawing since I was tiny — my grandfather is a very good artist , although he specialises in landscapes , and he 'd helped me enormously from the beginning . |
| 19 | ‘ I wish I 'd understood it more at the time . ’ |
| 20 | It was as though he 'd kicked her hard in the stomach . |
| 21 | He was so fond of them that he 'd stuck them together with Sellotape . |
| 22 | One of those held spellbound was the fairground owner , the Great Flaherty himself , who 'd lured her away from her Wall of Death rider and made her his child bride and business partner . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , dear , and I was thinking you 'd brought them specially for me . |
| 24 | Clearly he 'd brought her here for a purpose … |
| 25 | He 'd driven her directly to her hotel so she could change her clothes and she 'd elected to wear lightweight cream cotton jeans topped by a matching sleeveless cotton stretch top , taking the precaution of carrying a jacket when Rune warned her that the breeze from the Baltic could be stiff despite the increasing warmth of the day . |
| 26 | She 'd found something else in Dane 's strong arms ; he 'd unleashed a longing , a need , not just for physical satisfaction , but for something far , far greater . |
| 27 | She 'd believed herself still to be battle-scarred by her broken engagement and now was immune to such flirtation , but this man planed flirtation to a smooth , silky art she found it difficult to resist . |
| 28 | I thought he 'd acquitted himself well before getting crocked ? |
| 29 | She 'd imagined herself deeply in love with a man who 'd spun her impossible yarns of riches and position , only to abandon her in the end to shame and ridicule . |
| 30 | Quite a few odd things had happened in the last two days and , though this was the first time she 'd admitted it even to herself , she 'd felt vaguely uneasy , threatened , ever since she 'd arrived in Venice . |