Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd forgotten that I pay you a salary ! |
| 2 | And er that 's how I performed the , but I kept it to myself all these years you know and never told anybody what I 'd done because I think it was terrible . |
| 3 | He blushed to think of how shamelessly he 'd paraded himself when he 'd had Judith on his arm ; how he 'd joked that she loved him for his cleanliness , and for his taste in bidets . |
| 4 | She 'd cried because she thought he was going to be hit . |
| 5 | Well I 'd known if you said anything private , and I wipe it off |
| 6 | He seemed distracted when she asked him about Island Trading 's reliability . |
| 7 | Thinking how quiet she 'd gone when he said he was coming up for the funeral and how she 'd seemed to withdraw into herself . |
| 8 | ‘ She also said if he 'd gone like he said he was going to , this would never have happened and they would all have been a lot better off . ’ |
| 9 | When Muriel did n't get the job she 'd hoped for she talked it over with her present boss . |
| 10 | I was gon na say er somebody told me that he 'd left and I thought it was you cos nobody would . |
| 11 | I learnt with someone else , did two years and then er that was an accident if you like that I got involved cos somebody wanted me to be involved and and it seemed the right thing at the time . |
| 12 | I got charged when I did it in Newmarket . |
| 13 | The young soldier felt reassured when he knew he could take his American Coonan 357 Magnum pistol . |
| 14 | Cole adds that what actually happened when the Pioneers engaged in production was not what they had intended when they started their co-operative ; and goes on to offer a more detailed explanation : The Rochdale Manufacturing Society was set up in 1854 , Supposing that , as an expression of democracy , Co-operative principles are as valid for the producer working in the factory producing goods for sale in the Co-operative store as they are for the consumer buying them there , a newcomer to the story might find it surprising that the Pioneers ' belief is presented , if not itself as a matter for surprise , then certainly one for explanation . |
| 15 | They had heard that they sold them in Clery 's , and that was only a few minutes from where the bus stopped when it went to Dublin . |
| 16 | She had sensed that he believed she had asked for the locket , that she was guilty of abusing his father 's generosity . |
| 17 | From an early age , Sara had sensed that she irritated him , by her presence , by the fact that she was there to remind him of his wife 's earlier marriage . |
| 18 | After a birdie at the first , we ran into a bit of trouble at the 6th , a hole Lee had criticized because he felt you should n't have to ‘ lay up ’ on any par-4in an Open . |
| 19 | He clearly thought he had won and it annoyed her . |
| 20 | There were certainly more people than she had expected as they edged their way into the crowded lounge . |
| 21 | I told the guard at the reception desk in the dark , grim entrance why I had come and he told me to wait . |
| 22 | It was gone as soon as it had come and he re-established his public gaze . |
| 23 | He had forgotten that he held it in his hand . |
| 24 | Their spirits had parted , and though their bodies stayed together for a while longer , it was the first time since they had met that they found it difficult to talk . |
| 25 | I was the first British person most of them had met and they see me as a bridge to the outside world , ’ she said . |
| 26 | His eyes were small , but as shrewd as any Topaz had seen and she knew she would n't be able to gull him . |
| 27 | I could n't remember the make of car I drove , how my girlfriend looked naked , what I had done before I got my PI licence , what shape my bathroom was , my parents ' names . |
| 28 | If I had done as they said there would have been no chance of being fit enough for the expedition . |
| 29 | Hodge and those around him believed Syngman Rhee should be encouraged and believed he could be controlled ; they were later to regret having aided Rhee 's ambitions to the extent that they had done when they found themselves exposed to Rhee 's mordant censure . |
| 30 | At the beginning of the 1750s very few Englishmen in America had pushed even as far inland as the East India Company had done when it founded its port up the Hughli river at Calcutta . |