Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 32 | Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm |
| 33 | He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile . |
| 34 | Lucy reckoned that , for the man in charge , he had some staggeringly dull tasks to handle ; she 'd seen him in the stockroom once , counting every bottle in every crate of tonic water . |
| 35 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 36 | ‘ Nothing — I asked if he knew if she 'd seen anyone in the hospital recently , before we contacted Records . |
| 37 | I 'd seen it along the end of the track . |
| 38 | Anyway I went there and I was impressed , I 'd seen it from the ship and I completely concur with everything that 's been said . |
| 39 | Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop |
| 40 | It was a look she recognised instantly , although it was the first time she 'd seen it in the flesh . |
| 41 | ‘ I told her I 'd seen you over the weekend , ’ she relayed . |
| 42 | ‘ In her mind , she 'd twisted her into the daughter she and Gaston never had . |
| 43 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 44 | He 'd threatened her with the direst reprisals if she dared to leave their suite , not guessing that wild horses would n't drag her away until she 'd cleared the whole matter up . |
| 45 | Once they 'd had a conversation on two levels , from street to first-floor window ; it had been in April ; on the second occasion he 'd visited her in the afternoon , for a walk along the canal . |
| 46 | They 'd used them in the war , gliders . |
| 47 | The thoughtful echo rang in her ears long after she 'd buried herself beneath the bed cover in the privacy of her room , and yearned for the oblivion of sleep . |
| 48 | Joe said he 'd got them from the pawnshop . |
| 49 | It did n't hurt that much , but he pretended she 'd got him in the balls , hoping for a little wifely penitence . |
| 50 | But at least he did n't spot that until he 'd got me on the committee . ’ |
| 51 | The two biffos would have come sneaking through the door , rubbing their hands and telling themselves they 'd got me by the balls , and I 'd have pointed the extinguisher and put out their fire . |
| 52 | , so I put her out in the end it erm it was surprising everybody knew what was going to happen they knew what I was going to do right when I come back in after swi place was empty they 'd got out that door before I 'd got her out the door but erm no it 's it 's very insulting . |
| 53 | when you when you knew that he 'd got you by the short and curlies ? |
| 54 | I did n't believe he 'd got anything from the card . |
| 55 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 56 | ‘ To a certain extent you 'll have free rein , ’ he 'd told her over the telephone . |
| 57 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
| 58 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 59 | He 'd bought it in the Bazaar from an Indian trader who told him it would make the muscle grow . |
| 60 | It was their way of saying thank you to the locals who 'd helped them on the road to stardom . |