Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got given a crate of this , it 's Château Margaux , by the small , fat and lecherous owner of one third of Singapore . |
| 2 | The evidence produced included a transcript in English of Price 's evidence before the City Court of Gôteborg ; and it was not disputed that this evidence was admissible under paragraph 12 of the Schedule 1 . |
| 3 | Other measures announced included a reduction in the rate of income tax and a further immediate increase in the price of petrol . |
| 4 | I should think two years , you know , when the restrictions got lifted a bit , so it got better , yeah . |
| 5 | As a shareware library with monthly deadlines for our advertorial copy we need a reliable Communications package , unfortunately a custom program we used developed a bug and two hours before our copy deadline we were unable to send the data via our modem . |
| 6 | As a shareware library with monthly deadlines for our advertorial copy we need a reliable Communications package , unfortunately a custom program we used developed a bug and two hours before our copy deadline we were unable to send the data via our modem . |
| 7 | Research group Incomes Data Services said that 10pc of the 100 deals it monitored involved a pay freeze . |
| 8 | If the candidate replies that she/he helped run a youth club in the town where she/he lived before you can be reasonably sure that a large number of young people is not going to come as a strange new experience . |
| 9 | The use of files imposed limitations on the types of valid and reliable data that could be obtained ; data analysed represented a compromise between these limitations and what were thought to be useful indicators of the manner or style of assessment and service delivery . |
| 10 | Cecil King behaved liked a baron at the Daily Mirror in the 1960s , scolding the Wilson government and toying with the idea of political office . |
| 11 | The tests used covered a number of topics and were not specifically related to the curriculum . |
| 12 | Lumberjack had started barking and then , just as abruptly , stopped again , and in the silence he 'd heard a tree come down . |
| 13 | And I wanted a particular tape , oh I know it was a tape I 'd heard a coach driver using on the er on a coach trip that I was on so I got to know what it was erm and er I went round the usual shops no joy |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd heard a programme about an Indian craftsman who made wooden elephants . |
| 15 | He thought he 'd heard a sound , there towards the end of the parapet at the top of the steps . |
| 16 | ‘ I mean , we 've never heard him DJing , we just really liked the stuff he 'd done with Primal Scream , and as for Fluke , well , we 'd heard a lot of really good things about them — plus they 're signed to Creation . ’ |
| 17 | I 'd heard a lot about er af er I 've been in the Transport and General Workers ' Union as a shop steward and so forth like that . |
| 18 | Maybe she 'd seen the looks of fear in her children 's eyes as she talked to them , maybe she 'd heard a rumour that somehow she was to blame . |
| 19 | ‘ I think it would have been brilliant if they 'd given him more of a chance and if he 'd given a bit more . |
| 20 | She mentioned a conference at Lancaster University , where she 'd given a talk called ‘ Bringing Spirituality into Organizations ’ . |
| 21 | At one point she 'd given a talk on Sky TV about all the signs to look for in a youngster abusing solvents . |
| 22 | She got an answering machine and was pretty certain that she recognized his voice from the times he 'd given a television reporter a few words at the scene of crime . |
| 23 | He 'd developed a contempt for men like Morgan and Evans . |
| 24 | One evening after she 'd completed a couple of laps of the pool she was surprised to see David Markham stroll out of the changing-rooms on to the poolside . |
| 25 | Did you feel that you 'd completed a phase ? |
| 26 | Did you feel that you 'd completed a phase ? |
| 27 | Perhaps they meant it , but he died of a fever his first winter here and it must have seemed to him that they 'd broken a promise . |
| 28 | Maybe he 'd joined a ship , he 'd done his national service in the navy . |
| 29 | We 'd joined a demo of people who wanted to put the wall back up and return to communism ! ’ |
| 30 | We 'd received a campaigns update from central office and had registered the big box pile up campaign with that campaign coordinator . |