Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of which became hidden as she shrugged on an oversized khaki shirt , the sleeves hitched up to her elbows . |
| 2 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 3 | By then she 'd had our second child for which I got blamed as she had n't wanted to be pregnant again . |
| 4 | The Pretender nearly gave the game away by holding his skirts too high crossing a stream : ‘ some women whom they met reported that they had seen a very big woman , who looked like a man in woman 's clothes . ’ |
| 5 | He first became noticed when he appeared on tours with the rock star likes of Kate Bush , Eric Clapton , Julian Lennon and Madness . |
| 6 | But you know when I when I c last time I came from France and I came a came across the widest part of the channel er I got done once I had a B written on my board and then they come and crossed it out . |
| 7 | ‘ I got done because they wanted a scapegoat . |
| 8 | I thought of the stack of dirty crocks to tackle after tea , of pictures and furniture that were once polished every week , and now got done when I had the time . |
| 9 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 10 | A Washington survey , for example , showed that 38 per cent of those asked revealed that they had been a victim of a serious crime within the last year , compared to the 10 per cent revealed by police statistics . |
| 11 | ‘ He told me he 'd got in touch again the moment he 'd heard that you 'd decided to soft pedal a bit on work and so could be open to having a boyfriend . ’ |
| 12 | Robins interrupted my thoughts by saying , ‘ Sorry about the word ‘ posh ’ , but I 'd heard before we left Sanderstown the last time that a young man had been appointed assistant to Doctor Reid , and I was a bit surprised when I met you . |
| 13 | Somewhere in the stillness of the night an owl hooted — the first one she 'd heard since she came to live at Les Hiboux , Sabine realised , surprised . |
| 14 | When the police arrived to rescue the driver , who 'd parked on a blind bend of the motorway , he 'd explained that he had n't wanted to risk ruining his tyre by driving the extra distance to the hard shoulder . |
| 15 | , but he died soon after that but he 'd realised that he 'd worked hard all his life |
| 16 | Such changes would not have been inhibited necessarily by the teacher action , but none of the teachers I interviewed claimed that they had changed their methods to any great extent . |
| 17 | Then she remembered the way he 'd looked when she 'd talked about the Venetian nobility . |
| 18 | Her performance was about what he 'd expected but they brushed through without anything too awful happening . |
| 19 | ‘ It was much easier than I 'd expected though we had very good weather , sunny and dry all the way . |
| 20 | Suddenly she dropped his hand and slid her arms about his waist , knowing she 'd won when she felt the thunder of his heart against her cheek as she burrowed her face against his chest . |
| 21 | He 'd forgotten that we did have an increase . |
| 22 | I 'd forgotten that I 'd agreed to meet her . |
| 23 | I 'd forgotten that I 'd said that , and was , in any case , already regretting the admission . |
| 24 | Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night |
| 25 | I 'd forgotten that I pay you a salary ! |
| 26 | If , however , he were to arrive only to find Madeleine promised to someone else , he would have to suffer again those bitter pangs of regret he 'd endured before he came out to Blue Ash Farm . |
| 27 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 28 | When I said she was n't here , he asked where she was and I said Maidstone and he said she 'd moved and I said then I did n't know but he could leave the flowers here for Frank but he would n't . |
| 29 | ‘ Come home to me , ’ she 'd whispered when he left . |
| 30 | They ate the sandwiches they 'd made before they 'd left the house , and then lay in their shelter and read two paper-backed books they 'd brought with them . |