Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he 'd hung a papier mâché tray in its place so she 'd not feel the absence of the picture . |
| 2 | The one with the fine stripes looked slightly flashier , but he 'd made a better ironing job of the plain one . |
| 3 | When food got scarce , he 'd taken the better paid job of a Sweeper . |
| 4 | It was said that he 'd refused a smaller plan just because it was near his own home at Naunton in the Cotswolds |
| 5 | His successful bid was for £190,000 although he had made a higher prior offer which had been turned down . |
| 6 | While there , he naturally spent time at the dyeworks ; and twice , he had made the longer journey to Kouklia . |
| 7 | John Windle picked out Drew as a man he had seen the worse for drink and in a threatening attitude in Cross Street at 4.20 on 22 June . |
| 8 | He had reached the flatter section of land at the side of the house where vegetables had once grown in neatly fenced patches . |
| 9 | And here , thought Dalgliesh , he had had the larger vestry to himself . |
| 10 | He had taken a longer walk than he intended and by the time he returned to the coast road at Newlyn it was quite dark . |
| 11 | The tsar , however , believed he had found a better way to knit his territories together than any conceived by his predecessors . |
| 12 | Wilcox grunted contemptuously , as if he had expected no better . |
| 13 | He had held a greater ambition for some years , however , and this dominated him until the summer of 1952 — he wished to be President of the United States . |
| 14 | Jones , who started his professional career at Wimbledon before moving on to Leeds , Sheffield United and then Chelsea , said he had returned a better player . |