Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well , what happened with me was , when we got taught it , he |
| 32 | I must 've spilt summat or maybe I trod in a puddle cos my trousers are all wet and cold . |
| 33 | And I was doing alright myself , I should n't 've let him do it . |
| 34 | ‘ They 'd 've let me know , ’ he said , picking up another splinter of pheasant . |
| 35 | You could 've let us use some of that eight , over eight million pounds that we have stuffed away , set aside to actually promote our social housing programme . |
| 36 | because I did n't think she was the right one for him , I would n't have picked her I 'd 've picked somebody else |
| 37 | ‘ I 'm glad to see you 've regained your colour . ’ |
| 38 | Just the one night I would 've excused you . |
| 39 | You 've see you 've forgotten me already ! |
| 40 | And you mum I 've got yeah , will do erm I 've forgotten what I was gon na say now . |
| 41 | We thought some bird must 've forgotten her shopping . |
| 42 | I mean , a hundred and fifty a week — that 's as much as I 'd 've expected you to get for actually acting . ’ |
| 43 | Well I was gon na say you could 've dropped me off at grandma 's . |
| 44 | We would 've dropped her back . |
| 45 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 46 | A bit o' glass 'ad caught him on the fore'ead , but otherwise we 'ad n't a scratch to show for it between us . |
| 47 | ‘ The owner must 've reported it missing . |
| 48 | They say the majority of the staff group they met considered they were able to foster better relations when prisoners wore civilian clothes . |
| 49 | The picture of cattle stealing which has been built up thus far has emphasized its institutional nature . |
| 50 | It had the dubious merit of illustrating the spirit which has pervaded his campaign against Daniel Stewart 's and Melville College in Edinburgh since last June . |
| 51 | COMEDY star Whoopi Goldberg has trebled her money to make a sequel to the hit film Sister Act . |
| 52 | Next month , for his final piece , Pete Livesey has revised what he considers one of his best published articles : A Short Walk with Ron |
| 53 | To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the 1916 Rising , the National Museum of Ireland has revised its exhibition on the vital period of modern Irish history between 1900 and 1921 and called it ‘ The Road to Independence ’ . |
| 54 | The major Japanese computer manufacturers expect to report sharp declines in profits for fiscal 1993 , Associated Press reports from Tokyo : five companies — Hitachi Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Mitsubishi Electric Co , NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd are expected to report a combined 72% decline in profits , according to the Nippon Keizai Shimbun , the second consecutive drop in yearly earnings among the five firms , which collectively saw a 59% drop last year from the prior year ; NEC has revised its expected loss upwards to $370m from $77m forecast in November , Hitachi expects earnings to fall 33% to $733m , Fujitsu forecast its first loss at $8.6m , and Mitsubishi Electric expects a 30% fall in profit to $336m ; Sony Corp , NEC and Hitachi are considering raising export prices to compensate for a 6.5% appreciation of the yen against the dollar in the past month , which has begun to erode Japanese exporters ' profits . |
| 55 | Leicestershire SSD has revised its plans to warn other authorities about workers connected with the Frank Beck case . |
| 56 | The group has revised its own specification to require most of the recommended items to be incorporated in any new vehicles that are purchased . |
| 57 | The Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food ( MAFF ) has revised its estimates of how long the BSE epidemic will take to die out , following the discovery of an infected calf , which probably inherited the disease from its mother . |
| 58 | It was published in America in 1974 , translated by Peter Kussi , who has revised his translation for the new edition of 1986 which I am discussing here . |
| 59 | In any case , Anderson has revised his judgment of England 's intellectual culture . |
| 60 | Will the Chancellor assist businesses in making their investment plans by telling us whether he has revised his growth forecast for this year in the light of the Prime Minister 's statements in his new year interview , which seemed to cast considerable doubt on the growth forecasts given earlier ? |