Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 2 | She seemed resolved to sign the document . |
| 3 | And he did not say that , even if they 'd wished to finish the play with his understudy , they could n't , because Alex Household had run out of the theatre immediately after the shooting . |
| 4 | The small factory she 'd approached to undertake the making of the curtains , cushions and loose covers told her they 'd be ready to start in a few weeks ' time , and even allowing for this wildly optimistic schedule , she felt she ought to know when to expect delivery of the fabrics . |
| 5 | Since he continued at the same time to deny any intention to stand , the letter seemed designed to test the ground while adding to the ferment in the parliamentary party — especially among those MPs sitting in vulnerable , marginal seats . |
| 6 | Every room was supervised by hideous paintings of humourless De Belvings and all the furniture seemed designed to inflict an ache upon the muscles of the human body . |
| 7 | It looked good to the eye , it felt firm underfoot , the Land Rover had no problems , but the wheelbarrow seemed designed to plough a furrow . |
| 8 | The ceremony seemed designed to express the triumph of the united Angevin family over the old enemy of Toulouse . |
| 9 | There were occasions , also , when the assistant on duty would forget the time , and suddenly realise it was two minutes to the hour and she 'd forgotten to do the observation . |
| 10 | Er , and I 'd forgotten to take the money up before Christmas so it was still here yesterday . |
| 11 | We 'd decided to have a ploughman 's lunch or some such at a likely-looking pub we 'd seen in the next village . |
| 12 | Once we 'd decided to have a baby we had had to find a Father . |
| 13 | I knew that she 'd decided to have the child adopted , but then I was n't involved . |
| 14 | He was delighted with all we 'd done to make the house habitable in under a week and greatly enjoyed partying with friends . |
| 15 | There is no treatment available for the condition in China and Sheng seemed destined to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair . |
| 16 | I sorted out old toys into boxes , got a few rolls of carpet and wallpaper back into their places from where they 'd fallen , pinned a couple of maps back on to the sloping wooden under-roof , cleared away some of the tools and bits and pieces that I 'd used to repair the Factory , and loaded the various sections of the Factory that needed to be loaded . |
| 17 | There were probably machines that could have lowered and pulled up the basket easily , but he 'd preferred to loop the wire around a pillar inside the Ship and , with Pion helping inside , to pull themselves up and down by sheer nomish effort . |
| 18 | And er we used to get the work come to us all jumble up in waggons , and throw it onto a bench and then of course you 'd got to pick the top before you could turn it . |
| 19 | And you 'd got to take a knife , in one hand paper in the other paper in the other for business . . |
| 20 | So we 'd got to take the card and show her the Mother , we 'd been . |
| 21 | In wartime food had got to be produced , and all the young men were off the land , somebody 'd got to grow the food to feed this country and it was getting a bit desperate , because , old Hitler , he was no fool . |
| 22 | er reading and I ha , I could n't hold of enough of the material in the time I 'd got to write the essay so I would n't have studied enough , so I did this one on machines , and I got hold of two good books . |
| 23 | It er you were taught , and er I ju I 'd say it was as liberal a education as you get now , but you 'd got to get your maths , you 'd got to English , you 'd got to get a language , you 'd got to get a science , and |
| 24 | It er you were taught , and er I ju I 'd say it was as liberal a education as you get now , but you 'd got to get your maths , you 'd got to English , you 'd got to get a language , you 'd got to get a science , and |
| 25 | And of course And anyway , we got there , it was alright , and erm I had to fill this tractor , where it was , of course they 're going to make fun of me again , first morning I 'd got to get the tractor ready , and you know them , five gallon five gallon , things can happen at the time , and I have been had been supposed to be to get the hole at the top of the can , and not spill it you see . |
| 26 | He 'd faced foxes , he 'd helped to drive the Truck , he 'd flown on a goose — but none of them was half so bad as letting a human being actually touch him . |
| 27 | Finally , on the day that I 'd promised to ring the breeder back and let him know one way or the other , a miracle happened — one of those strokes of luck that seem to come along when you least expect them to . |
| 28 | As she said it , she managed to look back at him levelly , though she 'd had to suppress a dart of guilt before she spoke . |
| 29 | That seemed to be it , as far as motives were concerned , and , even to produce that list , he 'd had to scrape the barrel a bit . |
| 30 | ‘ But Maurin had gone roaring off in a taxi and I 'd had to find the bus stop and so I did n't seriously expect to . |