Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd thought he had the longest living hamster in captivity . |
| 2 | When she 'd gone I approached the door timidly . |
| 3 | As soon as he 'd gone she seized the crutch he 'd brought up , and , hobbling into the bathroom , closed the door with a bang . |
| 4 | Leonora nodded obediently , but the moment he 'd gone she drew the kettle over the heat on the Aga before going upstairs with her little hoard of shopping . |
| 5 | He 'd admitted he owned the Mercedes , but it had been exactly that … an admission , rather than a revelation . |
| 6 | When he 'd finished he threw the beer-tin into the pool with the anemones in it . |
| 7 | Mr Garsia said that when Mrs Cook discovered the dog had collapsed she telephoned the owners , and took the dog to a veterinary surgeon . |
| 8 | People who had said — during another part of the interview — that they preferred the smallest possible individual instalments turned out to be just as likely to switch to a shorter repayment schedule ( given lower APR and credit costs ) as people who had said they preferred the shortest possible repayment schedule . |
| 9 | Angalo had said he thought the inside of a plane would be a mass of wires and pipes . |
| 10 | From the beginning the group had said it wanted the paper to be international , and It was . |
| 11 | Now that it had disaffiliated it recognized the necessity of strengthening this co-operation . |
| 12 | Each person had thought that he or she knew him best and each person had felt he had the right to more sadness than the others . |
| 13 | I had understood he knew the man who is to chair the said development committee and it transpires he does not . |
| 14 | She put a condom on me and we got stuck in , but as soon as I had ejaculated she whipped the condom off me , leaving me floundering for a while on the bed . |
| 15 | Hoping that the male was not equally precocious proved vain , and when it became evident that the eggs had hatched I moved the male from the 18″ tank they had been sharing , and allowed the female to brood in isolation . |
| 16 | When Hunter-Blair had gone I finished the fourth one and went home . ’ |
| 17 | When he had gone I remembered the Christmas plate . |
| 18 | When the man had gone he closed the door . |
| 19 | At the time he had believed she felt the same . |
| 20 | When they had finished they patted the dovecot affectionately and climbed back unhurriedly down the stairs . |
| 21 | When she had finished she stroked the letters back into their creases , muttering to herself , ‘ Of course , of course . ’ |
| 22 | When he had finished he pulled the blankets back over her . |
| 23 | I am very grateful and so was Paul because after seeing you on Tuesday night after you had left I noticed the vast improvement in Paul which was all down to your visit . |
| 24 | The commercial manager had admitted he obtained the job ‘ because he knew Randolph 's brother ’ , and was ‘ totally out of his depth ’ . |
| 25 | It had been Campion Price , her father , who , disappointed that his firstborn had not been the male he 'd intended naming after his own father , had insisted she bore the feminine version of that name — Georgina . |
| 26 | When Gareth lived with us before he got married he turned the bath on and walked away and left it . |