Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 That was the er , last one that she 'd seen they said that .
32 ‘ I 'd seen him like that so many times before , but at least after a couple of days he 'd say , ‘ Vicky , I got to clean up . ’
33 She had seen him like this before , the night they 'd met , when he 'd been determined to have his own way ; she 'd seen him like this again , when he 'd announced she was not going to return to Milan …
34 I came searching for you at the shop and one of your neighbours told me she 'd seen you come this way . ‘
35 She had not exaggerated when she 'd said she felt weary .
36 I seemed to remember he had one and put it at the back of one of his chairs , and
37 ‘ It was the lowest point of my life I 'd sold everything to do this trip . ’
38 It was natural for the Girls to go out with men but Tiller was possessive and seemed to expect them to remain single until they were about thirty years of age , then quietly fade away .
39 She said she 'd got him to agree that day and it was no use arguing because it was her price for keeping her promise to be silent about her work on the other paintings . ’
40 She said she 'd got , she 'd got you know those things that you take double ?
41 But imagine , if after we 'd persuaded him to say all that , we announced that he 'd decided to go back .
42 That 's a cyclamen , two I 'd had me given that at our family party , we have a family party once a year
43 Ah no , said Mademoiselle indignantly , the class it is good , the girls they came to help me to get this monster of a spider .
44 She wished she 'd brought something to do that would take her mind off her anxiety if only for a moment .
45 So far rage had propelled her here ; now she 'd arrived she felt queasy inside .
46 On her return , she 'd found him entertaining several field officers from the nearby KOSB battalion .
47 I mean you 'd asked him to do that
48 Yes , yeah all that all that part was okay erm but from the point of view of the script th th that we 'd asked you to learn last night y you did n't do that now that may well work for you , the way you 're actually doing it , but from a training point of view we , we 're trying to look that you 're actually following the , the script there .
49 One of the English teachers , Frank Almond , who was keen on filming , even videoed Dawn shortly after I 'd trained her to fly free .
50 Jessica and Mallachy had moved beyond armed politeness , but not significantly , and there was a palpable edge to many of their exchanges that Karen assumed meant they fancied each other , but could not climb down enough to acknowledge it .
51 Another thought struck her — the farmhouse he 'd taken her to see that morning … could he have gone there ?
52 Her own feelings swung so violently between attraction and a very real fear and hate of what he 'd forced her to do that she was still as prickly as a porcupine in his presence , unless they were talking about work .
53 He 'd forced himself to do this , sneak down here , humiliate himself because he had to see her now , this evening .
54 Erm how did when when the first world war came do you remember that ?
55 Tom seemed to think he come low last night
56 As The Maniacs Came Killing I rolled three more into the trusty Smith and West Point and took up a manly pose .
57 He gulped a little , but the notion of locking the door certainly seemed to make him feel happier .
58 The shape of this 30ft by 45ft design seemed to make it appear wider and not all features could be seen at first glance .
59 Yet their forced complexity came to make them seem unconvincing when compared with the eventual attractions of the heliocentric system .
60 She turned to see him standing ten yards away .
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