Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought he 'd heard of the Box . |
| 2 | He 'd heard of the place . |
| 3 | Way back , he found the sketch he 'd made of the hide . |
| 4 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 5 | It unfolded from a slim oblong into a sheet-sized square that flapped and fought in the wind and did n't bear much resemblance to what she 'd seen of the City so far . |
| 6 | He was telling me that they 'd died of the frost or something . |
| 7 | Returning to his old job , he 'd learned of the opportunity . |
| 8 | Now you 're moving to Bilborough , you 're moving to Bilborough erm just say in five years time they got rid of the flats erm and they built houses on here on the site , would you move back ? |
| 9 | It got rid of the space between my teeth , which I did n't like anyway , so some good maybe came out of it after all . ’ |
| 10 | And his , and he got rid of the beautiful eagle erm you know , reading desk and he got rid of the Bishops 's erm , chair , the Bishop 's what do they call it ? |
| 11 | Happily we got rid of the fighter and the navigator set course once more by his skilful application of the astro compass readings and crossed the Channel . |
| 12 | I quickly got rid of the tears and there Michael was , saying wonderful , encouraging things . |
| 13 | What if I got rid of the clothes and kept her stuff till we 're ready to do a boot sale with it . |
| 14 | ‘ Christ , he got rid of the blanket , ’ yelped Billy . |
| 15 | We never got rid of the stains on her gear . |
| 16 | It is high time that we got rid of the Government who have characterised the 1980s with cardboard city and got a Government for the 1990s who will start using bricks and mortar again . |
| 17 | It really put a damper on the whole house and straight away cheered us up and got rid of the edginess we were all feeling . |
| 18 | I 've worked hard on the ‘ proper English ’ accent and with Kenneth 's help , got rid of the Yorkshire ‘ u ’ sound — as in bus — but had a little trouble with the ‘ ay ’ sound — as in fade . |
| 19 | The team physiotherapist , Alejandro Koch , has been banned for a year because , in Fifa 's words , he was ‘ an accomplice of the doctor ’ , as has the kit man , N Maldonado , because ‘ he got rid of the gloves and jersey of the goalkeeper ’ . |
| 20 | On April 24th President Itamar Franco got rid of the goat by showing that he could , after all , take action . |
| 21 | he could n't manage to think and I 've never learnt how to manage to , that erm , the engine , so we got rid of the boat and then our son he 's got a big boat , he 's got a real speedboat , a real big one and Julian he 's got a smaller speedboat , so both of the boys go there , when we go camping we always have a good time because it 's all a family affair like , you know , always get together and erm go on , on a boat , fishing , having fresh mackerels come back and clean them up and fry them straight fresh from the sea , never tasted as fresh , fresh as , fresher fish than , than |
| 22 | He got rid of the sheets by putting them on a chair near the passage-way to the bedroom . |
| 23 | But they got rid of the lot for a couple of Ford motor trucks , and William 's grandad with them . |
| 24 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 25 | It got rid of the crap if I can put it that way , sorted out my priorities . |
| 26 | Jelka looked about her , letting herself relax for the first time since she had heard of the attack on the Project , drinking in the harmony of the garden . |
| 27 | Mr MacKinlay said he had heard of the existence of a list of services , some of which appeared in The Observer newspaper yesterday . |
| 28 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 29 | The White Paper was the first the public had heard of the discussions on full employment policy since the Beveridge report . |
| 30 | Who had heard of the Brontës of Haworth , then ? |