Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got caught last week because I got fed the wrong line . |
| 2 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 3 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
| 4 | I 'd seen the naked soul of my Mother . |
| 5 | Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning . |
| 6 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ? |
| 8 | I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’ |
| 9 | But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing . |
| 10 | I 'd believed the English boy would protect me from these sounds . |
| 11 | There was general approval that I 'd asked the right question — no one back in the newsroom realised how hard it had been . |
| 12 | Nicola is such a brilliant student I 'd asked the Royal Ballet to give her an audition . ’ |
| 13 | But if so I felt that I had a chance of retrieving the situation , once I 'd made the Fraxillian delivery . |
| 14 | I was so afraid tonight when you did n't show up that I 'd made the biggest mistake of my life in letting you go back to England without trying to extract a promise from you . ’ |
| 15 | We all just sat there like Mickey Mouse was dead or something , and then we got on the train and went back home and did n't say anything to each other , and all the kids at school thought I 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 16 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 17 | When I met her , I thought I 'd met the ideal woman . |
| 18 | Within six months , I 'd repaid the forty-pound loan from my mom-in-law . |
| 19 | It 's almost like the ceremony of ordaining a bishop in fact if I 'd turned the wrong page we could have ended up with a bishop rather than an abbot you know |
| 20 | But I 'd bought the wrong weedkiller , it was Tumbleweed and I found out later it 's only lethal to tropical fish , apparently I should have bought pathklear which is much stronger . |
| 21 | ‘ I remember one client who burst into tears before I 'd taken the first snip , ’ said top London stylist Trevor Sorbie . |
| 22 | But at least I 'd taken the first step , and not an easy step , considering what I 'd said to the doctor at our last meeting . |
| 23 | I had made my decision and I 'd taken the first step . |
| 24 | Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing . |
| 25 | I 'd used the same plan as the previous day , but must have forgotten to change persons on board from two to one — dickhead ! |
| 26 | I 'd found the candle-making kit in the cupboard under the stairs five or six years ago , and experimented with the colours and consistencies for months before hitting on the idea of using the wax as a wasp-prison . |
| 27 | When I 'd finished the first prayer and turned to face him , I saw that he was kneeling . |
| 28 | Lisabeth was out of her flat before I 'd closed the front door behind me . |
| 29 | Erm I wanted to make sure I 'd got the right turning I think was the answer but there was no reason to say I had problems finding you or I was held up I 'm sorry for that or , or anything , there was no , there was no actual acknowledgement or reason for being late . |
| 30 | to wonder whether I 'd got the right time . |