Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALAN Hickman from Derbyshire became worried about the advice he was receiving over his pension transfer when he realised that each expert he consulted recommended a different course of action . |
| 2 | Most members of the RUC we encountered used an interpretative process which contains a set of typifications for distinguishing between ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ Catholics , as for ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ people generally . |
| 3 | A year later she and her son Samuel travelled to Bury St Edmunds , where they helped found a Congregational church . |
| 4 | Everyone knew this was going on but the vast profits involved generated a convenient blanket of economic hypocrisy . |
| 5 | The strategy they used involved an ingenious mixture of design and chance . |
| 6 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |
| 7 | ‘ It was probably something he 'd heard an old actor say , ’ he said . |
| 8 | She 'd given a false name so he could n't trace her . |
| 9 | Driving on , he told Paula that Harry Butler was on the way , that he 'd given a brief description of Evelyn so Butler would recognize her , plus her address . |
| 10 | If he 'd had his hands on her for one minute , he could have given her something to remember him by ; if only he 'd spat a single obscenity into her ear before running off , it would have been something . |
| 11 | This went on for three hours , by which time they 'd attracted a sizeable body of fans into the hotel foyer , much to the consternation of the management who had to call the police to break up the party . |
| 12 | She 'd enjoyed a wide circle of friends , a coterie of the bored wives of the rich , except that when together their collective boredom was no longer ennui but just time-wasting . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She 'd married a sporting celebrity , so she 'd expected a certain amount of attention , but she was n't sure she appreciated Ace 's rather smug pleasure at looking at himself . |
| 15 | He 'd expected a clandestine rendezvous — curtained windows , locked doors — not a gypsy encampment . |
| 16 | Pascoe had got her address from Rob Thomas ; at the same time , he 'd added a quick surveillance job to Thomas 's bill . |
| 17 | Second division , Swansea away in the cup was never going to be an easy ticket for Oxford , but when Nick Cusack scored with just over 10 minutes to go at the Vetch Field , United looked a good bet for the 4th round . |
| 18 | A graduate of Georgetown University , he 'd won a coveted Rhodes Scholarship to study for a BPhil in Politics at University College . |
| 19 | She 'd won a coveted Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award . |
| 20 | No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in the south and the American , American commitment to the global containment of communism meant that they had to go and do something about it and domestic political pressures were there too er President Kennedy came out of the Cuban missiles crisis a hero because his people mistakenly believed that he 'd won a foreign policy success and that he 'd acted in a restrained and statesmanlike manor . |
| 21 | The weird notion that she might be in danger of actually becoming one day as perfect as she seemed added a ghastly charm to her reflections , as she continued to envisage various methods of killing Jack . |
| 22 | He 'd picked a rotten wife . |
| 23 | He 'd booked a good table at The Palace . |
| 24 | You then followed me to the ticket reservation counter , chatted up the girl afterwards , found I 'd booked a Business-Class seat to Brussels , did the same yourself and waited outside the final departure lounge until you saw me boarding . ’ |
| 25 | And yet for a moment in the kitchen she thought she 'd caught a fleeting expression almost of smugness on his face , as though something had pleased him . |
| 26 | She felt as if she 'd uncovered a dark pit of long-buried feelings , and she was terrified of peering too far inside in case she could n't cope with the contents … |
| 27 | Because when Wendy and Laura had returned they 'd brought a verbal message from Suzie to the effect that she 'd met a Danish boy and had no intention of returning to England to complete her studies . |
| 28 | She was refused entry at the dentist on formal hygiene regulation grounds , and luckily , oh so luckily , I 'd met an old friend in a shop opposite the dentist so he took Bella off for a walk . |
| 29 | The national spotlight was on us — and it appeared to most of us that we 'd missed an open goal . |
| 30 | ‘ We were all aware we 'd made a total cock-up . |