Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pos pn] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd heard her mother talking with her cousins , exchanging notes . |
| 2 | It was a song she had known since she was a child and she 'd heard her mother sing it a thousand times . |
| 3 | Mark says , ‘ I 'd given my consent to AID but I could n't have told you how I might feel if Wendy did conceive . |
| 4 | Just look at how he 'd arranged her life to suit his plans . |
| 5 | I could see her English neighbour shutting her front door in our faces , and yet all the same we left the two children there , rushing away after I 'd pinched their cheeks to make them cry so that she 'd have to come out to them . |
| 6 | To find that she 'd pinched his windpipe shut . |
| 7 | Once she 'd made her decision to come to the Dordogne , Sabine had read up as much as possible on the area , and she knew that Bergerac wines had been overshadowed in the past by the great vignobles of Bordeaux . |
| 8 | He 'd made his fortune selling baths , bidets and toilets , which lent him little by way of mystique . |
| 9 | He 'd seen its practitioners hounded and mocked ; seen its theories decay into decadence and parody ; seen its purpose steadily forgotten . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ he agreed before lapsing into silence , but not before she 'd seen his face reflect the pleasure he 'd experienced at her instant recognition of what was clearly one of his favourite recordings . |
| 11 | It must have been something he 'd seen his mother do . |
| 12 | He 'd seen his mother sat at the end of the bed ages after she was dead , you know . |
| 13 | I had a few beers to celebrate , especially with my mate who 'd seen his bet come up in the end . |
| 14 | ‘ As I was saying , I 'd pushed their occupancy rates up by 40 per cent by the time I left , and headed up a worldwide promotional campaign that got Mandarin more free press exposure than ever before . |
| 15 | If I 'd said your parents had asked me to come , do you think I 'd have got you to tell me about Ryan ? ’ |
| 16 | Instead she 'd accepted his suggestion to show her more of the island of Zealand , and had been enchanted by everything , painfully aware that the spell which had entrapped her emanated from the powerful persona of the man beside her as much as the natural beauty of the surrounding countryside . |
| 17 | But I remember only too well the time when we had nothing in the bank and we lived in rented property because we 'd sold our home to keep me racing . |
| 18 | She 'd got her lines crossed . |
| 19 | Your uncle must be years and years older than she is , and anyway , I rather gathered she 'd got her sights set on some fellow whose name she would n't tell me . |
| 20 | Er it were in paper about this er this woman she 'd gone to the hospital and she must have been there longer than she thought , and so she 'd got her car clamped and it was thirty pound to have it off but |
| 21 | Then abruptly I was looking at him , seeing him , because he 'd put my dreams back on top of the bag and he 'd got his head stuck down on his knees and his shoulders were shaking . |
| 22 | And when you 'd got your centre filled in , you used to start again , , one in the corner , one the other corner , one between the eyes , one in the middle and back again . |
| 23 | And you had a bit of rage or duster or something , you 'd got your slate filled , you 'd just wiped it up , and dried it , start again . |
| 24 | And what , you 'd got your car locked outside have n't you ? |
| 25 | Did you say they 'd got my phone tapped ? ’ |
| 26 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |
| 27 | ‘ I told her I 'd got my sights set on a high-born heiress and she damned near scratched my eyes out . |
| 28 | I think if I 'd opened my mouth to say something irrelevant or personal to myself I would have been in jeopardy . |
| 29 | Now you 'd expect somebody who 'd had their car stolen to be uptight . |
| 30 | The first time he 'd seen her , after all , she 'd had her head wrapped in a towel . |