Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A bright schoolboy , he 'd joined the Marines at seventeen and gone to Vietnam .
2 ‘ If only I 'd recognized the signs of Bubbleshake contamination when I met him .
3 I 'd forgotten the indulgences of that world .
4 I 'd skirted the beds of leathery things bright with bloom and walked the sandy , oleander-lined drive .
5 Det Chief Insp George Brown , who is leading the murder hunt , said yesterday that members of the public had volunteered more than 300 names of people they believed matched the descriptions of the two attackers .
6 He 'd met the girls in a nightclub in Atlanta and took them back to his hotel to make the one film he did n't expect anyone else but him to see .
7 Maybe she 'd seen the looks of fear in her children 's eyes as she talked to them , maybe she 'd heard a rumour that somehow she was to blame .
8 She 'd seen the possibilities at once .
9 Oh well as I er , as I was saying about th this aunt that stayed with me , er she once er saw a , well I do n't know whether she actually seen it or not , but she 'd seen the results of it , of a tinker 's divorce , and this man killed this horse and threw his wife on top of it and that was him divorced .
10 He 'd seen the walls of reason built against it , brick by brick .
11 He 'd lodged the letters in a bank there , apparently .
12 If indeed he 'd secured the tickets as a way of bribing her between the sheets , then he suffered for his lust .
13 Henry Yaxlee said that on Friday night he 'd done the accounts till quite late , made a round of the stables about eleven-thirty and gone to bed soon after .
14 He 'd hung the clusters of holly that Willie had painted silver , on to the walls .
15 He 'd searched the streets around her house that morning .
16 So he said he 'd got no objections to John moving it back
17 And did you mention to Steen that you 'd got the photographs at any time ? ’
18 She lay down after she 'd got the children to school .
19 Erm , it 's just that I had , I 'd told the auditors about but I do n't think that anybody 's and I was unsure we should do that with .
20 He 'd bought the cars from a friend in Bolton
21 ‘ She 'd had a dickens of a lot to drink .
22 After he 'd coated the segments in salt and chilli he passed them round , and everyone smacked their lips and screwed up their faces in pained delight .
23 ‘ In the meantime you 'd notified the police of Connie Fraser 's disappearance , and given a nice time check , all verified by the hospital staff . ’
24 After we 'd found the corpses of the assassins .
25 He suddenly wished , with an almost desperate fervour , that he 'd asked the names of Karen 's daughters .
26 I 'd observed the varieties of charm .
27 He 'd been down to the coke-cellar beneath the church , where the stage was stored , and with the assistance of Mr Peniket he 'd tried the curtains for size .
28 When she 'd retrieved the ends of the rope and tied it all together , she sat with her back against the load , adjusting the carrying rope over her forehead .
29 He 'd learned the laws of the game ( ’ the first seven you do n't even kick a bloody ball ’ ) through being an Ayresome Park regular since he was five .
30 I thought she 'd just er you know , she was worried about her children cos as usual they 'd left the keys behind , they were the house .
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