Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If he came back and found we 'd made off by ourselves , he 'd go back to Tara and tell them we 'd reneged on the bargain , ’ finished Snodgrass . |
| 2 | But he got down in two more , for a bogey five , and then the chasers , Langer and David Graham , found they had run out of puff . |
| 3 | It was discarded when shelving had to be cleared away from a wall on which a mural had been discovered after being painted over in the Stalinist era when the artist who created it had fallen out of favour . |
| 4 | She looked at the baby , also drenched in tears , and found he had come back to life . |
| 5 | Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles . |
| 6 | I told you getting mixed up with that boy was trouble . ’ |
| 7 | I mean they were there at lunchtime when I came home and there was nobody with them so I assumed they 'd knocked off for lunch . |
| 8 | She assumed he had gone out for a reason but became worried and phoned a friend . |
| 9 | She said with a shock that she realised she had grown up among the men on her father 's farm without seeing them as people you could conceivably fancy . |
| 10 | Then she said , ‘ If you were a good-looking chap who wore Armani suits and washed-silk shirts and things , and you found yourself sitting across from a girl with freckles and a ponytail — or at least , a girl who used to have freckles and a ponytail — and you realized she 'd grown up to be gorgeous , would you go for her ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She phoned me after you interviewed her and said she guessed you 'd found out about the affair — to warn me . |
| 12 | They claimed they had lost up to 30 kg in weight since the siege began . |
| 13 | Ethel 's brother , David Greenglass , claimed he had passed on to Julius some sketches and notes from Los Alamos about the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki . |
| 14 | As requested by Mrs Johnson of the Committee for the Preservation of Morals , she drove out to the library , with the intention of asking the chief librarian for information about Ben MacLean , but when she arrived he had gone out for morning coffee . |
| 15 | As they talked they had moved out of the pub , back into the sunlit streets . |
| 16 | He and Rory had had a drink the night before , and Rory confessed he 'd driven up from Belleeks early to cruise around Cultra and reconnoitre . |
| 17 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 18 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
| 19 | You 've been gone so long I thought someone had run off with you . ’ |
| 20 | ( I thought I had got out of this by saying it was a firm 's car park so it would be the same four drivers . ) |
| 21 | Yet every time I thought I 'd broken out of that cage you pushed me back again . ’ |
| 22 | I thought I 'd woken up in Heaven . |
| 23 | ‘ When you said something about the real tragedy for anyone facing a handicap is when expected support is withdrawn , then yesterday at your flat I realised that you thought I 'd walked out on Jennifer when I discovered she had MS . |
| 24 | You thought I 'd got off with him for fuck 's sake ! |
| 25 | Harriet made a grunting sound that meant she 'd given in under protest and Jess did n't wait for any other sign . |
| 26 | ‘ I knew she 'd gone up to Jack 's — she always does now if he 's alone , makes no secret of it . |
| 27 | Cal did n't turn round from the front seat , but Mrs Fry said , ‘ We could n't go on playing Scrabble in the rain when we knew you 'd gone off like that , and your parents sounded so dreadful on the phone . |
| 28 | Once he knew you 'd found out about the paintings , he might have thought you 'd go on to discover the truth about the murder . |
| 29 | keep it okay for you in fact that 's who I 'd thought you 'd gone to , I thought you had called in at their house like cos must of seen his , I thought you must of seen his run out his car at |
| 30 | ‘ I thought you 'd grown out of it , darling . |