Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At the time , you remember , you 'd given me very little information to go on . |
| 2 | He 'd given her so much and she would never forget him , but she would never confuse what they had shared with that elusive emotion — love . |
| 3 | ‘ After he 'd given you how much ? ’ asked Joe . |
| 4 | She 'd disliked him intensely last night . |
| 5 | He 'd picked her up first ? ’ |
| 6 | He 'd caught her completely off-guard . |
| 7 | She 'd turned it as high and as hard as she could get it to go . |
| 8 | He 'd made it abundantly clear that Hari was of no account in the community , that she could not be trusted to carry any weight with lawyers and the like . |
| 9 | You know that , ’ she replied , and discovered that Travis , more interested in his love-life than hers , wanted to talk about Rosemary and how much he missed seeing her and the fact that he had been so lonesome for her that he 'd phoned her flat several times yesterday evening and , receiving no reply , had realised she must still be at her parents ' home . |
| 10 | And the undulants displayed a conspicuous electric field whenever they moved ; she 'd felt it as static whenever they touched-her . |
| 11 | They 'd got her absolutely terrified I mean she , she could have dropped dead with sheer terror . |
| 12 | That time she 'd told me how lonely and abandoned she felt when she was with her husband , those confessional words , ‘ lonely and abandoned ’ , which usually would have me cringing all over the place , made me shiver . |
| 13 | I could n't remember the last time he 'd shown me so much affection . |
| 14 | He 'd had it too easy , Jack . |
| 15 | He 'd played it very cool , they both had . |
| 16 | She 'd known him barely two days , and already he 'd steered her through more emotions than she 'd known herself capable of — And , much to her very great surprise , over the next few days he insisted on showing her the countryside . |
| 17 | Eventually when he 'd exhausted his immediately available epithets and had to pause to think up a few more off-beat ones , I interrupted . |
| 18 | Recently , he 'd left them very much in her hands , but now , with her own departure looming , he 'd decided it was necessary to go through everything with her . |
| 19 | But perhaps he 'd left it too late . |
| 20 | ‘ You lost more in the war than we did , ’ Maxim said , and instantly felt he 'd pitched it too strong . |
| 21 | From me , who 'd loved you almost half a year . |
| 22 | Then she turned towards the stairs , resisting with all her strength the temptation to turn back for one last glance of the man who 'd sent her normally sane and steady world into turmoil . |
| 23 | " Can I play ? " she said at last , after we 'd ignored her about ten minutes . |
| 24 | But for some people the austerity period which followed brought it even more years of deprivation and hardship than those of the war . |
| 25 | Lydia woke early the following morning and went out to wash in the stream , feeling it was brave and somewhat magnanimous of her after it had treated her so ill on the previous night . |
| 26 | ‘ The convulsion of war has opened our eyes to many strange things ’ , he wrote in 1919 , ‘ Few of us had realised till war had exposed it how thin is the veneer of civilisation over the underlying animal proclivities … the failure of religion to direct , and education to balance , the actions of men . ’ |
| 27 | Life here had taught him that much caution , strongly as it ran against his nature . |
| 28 | They had taught him that much in the Army . |
| 29 | She had had only one lover so far , a very young man who had taught her little more than caution . |
| 30 | I decided to work with the market women 's organization , ASUTRAMES , because my mother had a market stall and I would help her , and because the community had taught me how important it was to claim our rights . |