Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight weeks later Dad went home to Hull , took one look at the nice convalescent home we 'd booked for him and said , ‘ I 'm buggered if I 'm staying in here . |
| 2 | And the amount of help you get the day before your exams -the same morning I turned round to Hilary after all the work she 'd done with me and said , " I 'm going to fail , I 'm not doing it . " |
| 3 | I We 'd talked about it and said Well , we 're not going to get married whilst war 's on , as er probably the generation before , had said in nineteen fourteen , and er we got married eventually on the first of December , nineteen forty . |
| 4 | That disappointed me , because we 'd talked about it and done that yesterday in training . |
| 5 | He 'd gone with one once , after a party , back to a flat with a friend of Dave 's , who 'd laughed at him and had eyes that made him feel he was being drawn into something he could n't stop , and when she shed her clothes and left them discarded on the floor he 'd stared , open-mouthed , aware of the noise inside his head , something to do with what he 'd drunk , he could still hear the music , and was aware too of the smell of some cologne that merged with hairspray and covered something that he did not want to know about , the dirt and dust of the room and the female odours that half-attracted and repelled him . |
| 6 | When Maddox shrugged , Pascoe lifted a store bag he 'd brought with him and took out some fake flowers and a top hat . |
| 7 | Penry propped up the pillows behind her , then opened the bag he 'd brought with him and took out a small torch . |
| 8 | If the fall had n't killed him , the large diamond of glass he 'd brought with him and impaled his neck on certainly had . |
| 9 | He did n't advise but just stood there , nodding his head vaguely and smiling to himself while his hands — almost involuntarily — went through the motions of twisting the spindle he 'd brought with him and winding on the wool . |
| 10 | ‘ Once the novelty 's worn off , everywhere 's just like home , ’ she said , remembering the brief , pure joy of strange hotel rooms , which gradually became familiar as you unpacked the things you 'd brought with you and acquired the kind of things you were wont to acquire , so that very soon you recognized yourself in your surroundings and understood that there was no escape . |
| 11 | He veered left towards them and put his own jacket on the ground . |
| 12 | I wheeled left towards them and called ‘ Tiger ’ on the R/T to take the outside man on their port flank while I took the leader . |
| 13 | He had promised Comfort that he would tell no one about the woman who had spat at her and called her filthy names . |
| 14 | The Queen and her ladies had heard about me and wanted to see me . |
| 15 | She asked if I had heard from you and said that she wished to read the novel you were writing , and I 'm afraid I said I thought you were writing it . |
| 16 | She loved to hear how she had pointed to them and said , ‘ Moo ! ’ and we had said , ‘ No , darling . |
| 17 | When she had been at college she had socialised in plenty and had had her fair share of boyfriends , Ashley reflected , as they drove along , but since then her energies had been single-mindedly channelled into her career . |
| 18 | No wonder the girl had stared at her and drawn her own conclusions . |
| 19 | Luckily his jacket had caught on it and saved him from falling . |
| 20 | He had looked at me and seen her . |
| 21 | And I remember running into the ward where I had been treated , finding one of the nurses who had looked after me and giving her a big hug and her crying . |
| 22 | Pat had come to him and asked to be able to buy the shop — not with any money she had available at that time , but on a never-never basis , letting him have a share in the takings until the value of the business had been reached . |
| 23 | His awkwardness made her remember the last time they had met — that time he had come to her and cried upon her shoulder , four days after Han Ch'in 's death . |
| 24 | Who had forgotten about them and gone off , leaving all those trunks up there ? |
| 25 | Ron had winked at her and steered Bellamy away , down towards the foundations of the leisure centre . |
| 26 | He had sounded amused , but then he had turned to me and pointed to his chin . |
| 27 | The corpse looked realistic enough , but Ben had turned to her and laughed . |
| 28 | He had turned on her and said with cold savagery , ‘ For fuck 's sake , stop kicking me , will you ? ’ |
| 29 | If he had turned from her and rushed from the room , banging the door after him , she would not have felt half as afraid as when he backed slowly from her , his arm bent and his forefinger wagging at her . |
| 30 | The other car had skidded into hers and made her forget the phone call . |