Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dimly doing her best to remember what they 'd taught her at school , Diane believed that she 'd managed to work out the map reference by the time that Ross Aldridge arrived at the Hall . |
| 2 | She was surprised that he 'd picked her in spite of her work . |
| 3 | He 'd caught her by surprise , that was all . |
| 4 | She 'd aroused suspicion in some member of the staff and they 'd reported her to Brückner 's widow . |
| 5 | I 'd met him in Nigeria . |
| 6 | I told Caroline I 'd met him by chance . |
| 7 | He 'd met her at work , which was about the only place where he did meet people these days . |
| 8 | And I explained that er I 'd met her in town , which I did , did n't I ? |
| 9 | I 'd seen the play — some touring company did it — they 'd made it into SF , all in space , and Oedipus was a two-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox character trying to kiss his mother with one of his faces and weep sorrowful tears with the other . |
| 10 | He 'd made it from Oxford . |
| 11 | Although she had never said so , his instinct had told him immediately he 'd seen her with Harry that she was in love with the young man — a devastatingly handsome young man — whose manner towards Alice had been affectionate but certainly not lover-like . |
| 12 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
| 13 | Oh , it was terrible , I 'd seen it on video , it 's really sad . |
| 14 | If he 'd strangled her on impulse it would have been there , and he could have slid her weighted body into the river , no one the wiser . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd written it under hairdryers in TV studios , in mid-flight to sundry family holidays , from hospital beds and , occasionally , two weeks late , leaning on the fax machine in the local Pip-Pip-Pip shop . |
| 16 | She told Spruce more or less what she 'd told the Archdeacon of her contact with Mrs Marr in London at St Sylvester 's Betterhouse mentioning Racy without revealing that he 'd phoned her on Sunday . |
| 17 | They 'd done it for Adam and Christopher and they 'd do it for him . |
| 18 | In Ireland last week , we were accused of writing a ‘ dirty ’ book for vulgar gain ( would it have been any better if we 'd done it for charity ? ) and worse , of racism . |
| 19 | She 'd done it with Scott . |
| 20 | Of course at that time we did n't realise she 'd done it on purpose . |
| 21 | Well I do n't think you 'd done it since Christmas had you ? |
| 22 | They 'd done it in Gaelic to cover up the vulgarity . |
| 23 | Martin mentioned that he , he 'd done it by post and you , you ex explored as to why . |
| 24 | He 'd collected her from Kalkara early this morning , to take one of his charter yachts for a test sail . |
| 25 | and she 'd offered it to Maureen three months before and Maureen turned it down , and they went mad they said you little creep Jan , little bloody sneak |
| 26 | He 'd handed it to Shiona . |
| 27 | And then erm mother of course , I can always remember was in the Guild and erm she would , the Guild in those days I 'm always telling the er people today , were very , very active women , very active erm and you 'd got them as councillors , magistrates erm come forward to all these positions . |
| 28 | ‘ You asked me if the garage had returned my car , when you 'd got it under lock and key all the time ! ’ |
| 29 | I was hoping you 'd got it under control . ’ |
| 30 | Well anyway , I do n't know what was true or not or what what was right , but I thought I 'd got it through seniority and we 'll leave it at that . |