Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I met Kirk and started to work with him , I sort of felt I 'd known him in some other life . |
| 2 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 3 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |
| 4 | I think , er you know , they 're just a , you know , if , if they were erm elm trees or something like that , or you know blackthorn trees here and you 'd taken them in this country , you 'd say , oh there 's a couple of blackthorn trees ! |
| 5 | Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness ! |
| 6 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 7 | Bill 's call had shaken me in more ways than one , so I dispensed with discretion . |
| 8 | Until top jockey Mark Dwyer was handed the plum ride on Jodami this season , the trainer 's daughter Anthea and her husband Patrick Farrell had partnered him in all his races . |
| 9 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
| 10 | Those who had seen her in this mood before faded quietly out of reach ; others got their fingers burnt . |
| 11 | Believe me , if I had seen her in any other place , I would have dismissed her as a witch from a mummer 's play . |
| 12 | She did n't know what it meant but had seen it in some of the old books in the Doctor 's TARDIS . |
| 13 | She had seen it in any case and she was not Sairellen Thackray who would look down her granite nose at him and sneer . |
| 14 | To begin with , they thought that the Robemaker had injured him in some unimaginable way , for the crimson mask still had him in its grip and in the flickering light , it looked for a moment as if the lower part of his face was covered in blood . |
| 15 | And whoever took this four marb eight marbles had chucked them in this hole and if a even number come out it was mine , if a odd number came out then he 'd take the eight . |
| 16 | Some of the stories people had told me in that room would make your hair stand on end . |
| 17 | He had been trained to recognise anybody who had served under him , or who had helped him in any way . |
| 18 | Nobody had helped her in this wonderful , cultured city . |
| 19 | She had phoned in sick straight after she 'd got home that dreadful morning and spent the next couple of days trying to come to terms with what had happened , but there was no way she could ever accept what Luke had done , how he had used her in that unscrupulous way . |
| 20 | As he moved away , Shannon sent a silent stream of curses after the mischievous imp in her soul which had landed her in this , desperately trying to remember the instructions she 'd skimmed through in the beginners ' ‘ learn-to-ski ’ handbook Kelly had given her . |
| 21 | Some changes , however , were made in the draft to satisfy those who had challenged it in this way : union republics were given eleven rather than seven seats each in the Supreme Soviet 's Council of Nationalities and ex officio places on the Committee of Constitutional Supervision , and changes of wording were made in order to remove what Gorbachev described as the ‘ misunderstanding ’ that the rights of republics had been infringed . |
| 22 | The ‘ magic ’ as she had called it in those exciting days when it had all begun , had become a curse . |
| 23 | Leith , having popped along to her bedroom to take her hair out of the knot she had worn it in all day , was having serious thoughts about her actions — inviting him for a meal , for goodness ' sake ! |
| 24 | Sarah Fleming had unsettled him in more ways than one . |
| 25 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 26 | ‘ He could n't live with the thought that someone had touched me in that way . |
| 27 | He would have preferred , I knew , to keep them at home , but Ruth , his wife , had overruled him in that , as she did in quite a few other matters . |
| 28 | He was fretted by the thought of Kate , back at the scene of crime by now , and he felt a spurt of resentment against Dalgliesh who had involved him in this irrelevant mess . |
| 29 | Olga , the brighter of the two , had clamoured to be allowed to go to college in Tollemarche , and both parents had encouraged her in this , hoping she would become a school-teacher ; but she had met Boyd Stych and got married instead . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's so humid , ’ they moaned , and they wondered why it was that the storm had left them in this stifling , steamy condition when storms were supposed to clear the air . |