Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pos pn] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd seen its practitioners hounded and mocked ; seen its theories decay into decadence and parody ; seen its purpose steadily forgotten . |
| 2 | She 'd got her lines crossed . |
| 3 | Your uncle must be years and years older than she is , and anyway , I rather gathered she 'd got her sights set on some fellow whose name she would n't tell me . |
| 4 | Er it were in paper about this er this woman she 'd gone to the hospital and she must have been there longer than she thought , and so she 'd got her car clamped and it was thirty pound to have it off but |
| 5 | Then abruptly I was looking at him , seeing him , because he 'd put my dreams back on top of the bag and he 'd got his head stuck down on his knees and his shoulders were shaking . |
| 6 | And when you 'd got your centre filled in , you used to start again , , one in the corner , one the other corner , one between the eyes , one in the middle and back again . |
| 7 | And you had a bit of rage or duster or something , you 'd got your slate filled , you 'd just wiped it up , and dried it , start again . |
| 8 | And what , you 'd got your car locked outside have n't you ? |
| 9 | Did you say they 'd got my phone tapped ? ’ |
| 10 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |
| 11 | ‘ I told her I 'd got my sights set on a high-born heiress and she damned near scratched my eyes out . |
| 12 | Now you 'd expect somebody who 'd had their car stolen to be uptight . |
| 13 | The first time he 'd seen her , after all , she 'd had her head wrapped in a towel . |
| 14 | All her good points seemed to be in her mouth , her voice , her singing and her quick wit , and he noticed , too , something different about her : she 'd had her hair waved . |
| 15 | Her face was thinner , not altogether a good thing , and she 'd had her hair coloured too , a sort of pale version of the colour it used to be . |
| 16 | Obviously she 'd have to go out to the shops from time to time , but she 'd had her hair dyed black on the Saturday , bought a new winter coat and a large pair of dark glasses . |
| 17 | I just told them you 'd had your hair cut really short |
| 18 | He 'd had his eyes closed . |
| 19 | Like yesterday , when I 'd had my hair cut , he did say it looked a mess before ! |
| 20 | Wishing she 'd kept her mouth shut and never mentioned her need of some new clothes , Laura found herself being dragged , willy-nilly , towards the lifts . |
| 21 | With hindsight , she says : ‘ I wished I 'd kept my mouth shut in the first three weeks . |
| 22 | Been a long time since she had heard her language spoken freely . |
| 23 | The class had seen their friends carried off to a certain death . |
| 24 | The staff , all from the Burscough-based Westbrook Packaging firm , had seen their company taken over by the French-owned Seyfert Packaging Group and decided it was time to learn the language . |
| 25 | Once the two fathers had signed , once they had seen their names written in the register of marriages , it was irrevocable . |
| 26 | She had seen her country overrun by both the German and the Russian armies ; she knew at first-hand the madness of war and the fear it transmits to the civilian population . |
| 27 | So I wondered what chance I had of outstaying Lebanese men who had picked up their first Kalashnikov aged six , or the Vietnamese man who had seen his mother raped before going on to kill his first Cambodian at the age when I was doing my Common Entrance . |
| 28 | Joseph had seen his grandfather dressed up for a sing-sing with a long white bone through this hole , forming a kind of false moustache each side of his nose . |
| 29 | I was suddenly terrified , as if from a long distance away I had seen my family poised on the edge of a crumbling cliff , unaware and smiling . |
| 30 | and I wanted to , and eh we had done my blood taken for all kinds of tests |