Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Information from the French , American and Russian experts who helped set up Iraq 's air defences will have helped in their defeat or circumvention — a jammer which knows how the enemy radar ‘ thinks ’ has a great advantage . |
| 2 | ‘ We got fed up waiting , ’ explained Vanessa . |
| 3 | He 'd heard how Jesus was always concerned for poor people and how he always welcomed the chance to correct people like him who were living wrongly . |
| 4 | Until now , he 'd given up hope that such a burgeoning time would ever come again . |
| 5 | Of course , he 'd given up medicine to pursue comedy , but he was absolutely at his best when caring for others . |
| 6 | He 'd given up woodwork , having driven a splinter through his thumbnail . |
| 7 | Erm er I was concerned when my Noble Friend said that he 'd looked up Hallsbury but that it did n't contain the right words , er er I rather wonder whether he looked up so to speak the right version or the last version . |
| 8 | but for some reason we 'd been to Gateshead , and I 'd looked up food processors in the Argos catalogue |
| 9 | A little later , he 'd looked down avenues of faces , hoping it might be Helen . |
| 10 | He 'd picked up dysentery at a game fair in Hampshire ! ’ |
| 11 | I think you had a little bit of a soft spot for Poole did n't you , and you 'd have quite liked to have gone there and a little bit perhaps disappointed when you heard that they 'd picked up Marvin Cox ? |
| 12 | Well not disappointed that they 'd picked up Marvin Cox because obviously they 're going to need a very strong side if they 're going to win anything so erm you know , with guys like Marvin around , then it 's got to be a good idea , you know , they 've obviously made a big jump there to grab someone they think 's going to make a difference . |
| 13 | Within a couple of months I 'd splurged about £2,500 on all sorts of high-fashion clothes . |
| 14 | He 'd forgotten how women aged in Ireland . |
| 15 | He had read it out to him but he knew that he 'd missed out bits . |
| 16 | She said to Rourke , ‘ You wanted to know if I 'd lent out keys to anyone — the telephone engineer , you said , and the man who came to see to the new extension around the back . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ A lot of the boys would n't believe John , he 'd made up stories before , but all the girls believed me . |
| 18 | ‘ That we 'd had a short but intense affair , and when we 'd met again and realised we still felt the same about each other you 'd revealed how Thomas was mine . ’ |
| 19 | He knew what happened to men and women whose notion of themselves had become degraded ; he 'd seen how traitors worked with a special spite , with a fury that was reserved for themselves as they twisted the knife in the wound . |
| 20 | After all , I 'd seen only photographs of his new personality . |
| 21 | When he bent over her she cried , like she 'd done all night , and he wanted to cry with her . |
| 22 | A welter of figures shot up telling him when I had started work , how often I took a break to scratch my nose or eat a mint and exactly how many key strokes I 'd done all evening . |
| 23 | He 'd got just tuppence ha'penny in his pocket for his beer , when they found him . ’ |
| 24 | Lachlan Watt had been about to leave Hamish and Antonia 's party when Fergus had fallen over and Fiona had decided it was time to take her husband home ; she had offered Lachy a lift back to his brother 's house , but when they 'd got there Fergus had seemed fast asleep , snoring loudly and taking no apparent notice of Fiona shaking him and shouting at him ; Lachy had volunteered to come back to the castle to help get Fergus out of the car and upstairs to bed ; Fiona would run Lachy back afterwards . |
| 25 | He 'd soaked up atmosphere , as he had intended — my God he had . |
| 26 | They 'd staked out Culley 's flat for half a day and most of the night . |
| 27 | 2 Korean Christian Lee Jang Lim had to admit he 'd misled his followers when the world failed to end on October 28 , and it was discovered that he 'd banked over £2½ million of their money in long-term savings plans . |
| 28 | They 'd found out MacQuillan was buying guns for terrorists , so they decided he was to be stopped . ’ |
| 29 | So er says right , I 'll see you later , and just as we 'd gone away Joke got back out the car er , and she says do n't worry about the money . |
| 30 | Yes , of course — how silly of me , they 'd gone up market now , and it was funeral directors ' suppliers I needed . |