Example sentences of "[vb past] both [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst Bowley and others investigated urban poverty , Rowntree became increasingly concerned about rural conditions and the drift from the land which he and others believed both increased urban problems and diminished the nation 's capacity for self-support . |
| 2 | I told him my Vanessa story and he told me his and we 'd both heard them before ! |
| 3 | The price was about the only thing about the house that was right , but we 'd both fallen in love with it right away . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd both grown up a bit , that 's all . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought we 'd both done an extremely good job of ignoring it ! ’ she retorted haughtily , willing her heartbeat to stop its idiotic racing . |
| 6 | And when we 'd both done I freshened our cups . |
| 7 | ‘ When we 'd caught them they 'd both gone . |
| 8 | They 'd both lived with their parents near Sutton , he already in the shipping business from which he 'd retired when they came to Dynmouth , she working in her father 's estate agency , doing part-time secretarial duties and arranging the flowers in the outer office . |
| 9 | We 'd both made plans , and they both went wrong . |
| 10 | ‘ If anything had happened to your precious boat , or we 'd both drowned , you 'd never have let me forget — ’ Her voice trailed off as she recognised the absurdity of what she was saying . |
| 11 | Maybe we 'd both misjudged him . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're a good boy , Wayne , ’ Angelica had said , and they 'd both known that she was meaning for more than just the errand . |
| 13 | Maybe a coincidence , maybe the two girls talked on the phone , decided they 'd both had enough . |
| 14 | They 'd both had little enough the previous night . |
| 15 | Not a plate , as they 'd both expected , but something much smaller , softer . |
| 16 | I understood there was talk of taking up where you 'd both left off , ’ she reminded him . |
| 17 | The other two were good as well — they 'd both passed for Sergeant , stable , fine fellers . |
| 18 | They 'd both jacked in their jobs ( he 's a computer programmer ; she 's a physiotherapist ) and were planning to backpack round the world for a few months . |
| 19 | ‘ I should have suspected , but I thought we 'd both learned from the tragedy of our mother . ’ |
| 20 | The naan bread was big ; we 'd both stuffed ourselves with it during the meal but it was still big . |
| 21 | It was fortunate that they 'd both driven back to the farmhouse after leaving the nightclub , before carrying on to the forest in Adam 's car , so her own vehicle was parked outside in the courtyard . |
| 22 | She seemed both fascinated and repelled by our ‘ old fogeyness ’ and delivered her opinions , whether sought or unsought , with unvarnished bluntness . |
| 23 | Kevin raised both clasped hands in a salute to acknowledge luke-warm cheers ; Trace lifted her whip . |
| 24 | Momentarily he looked both startled and annoyed . |
| 25 | She felt both exhausted and keyed up , as though she would never sleep . |
| 26 | It should be noted that the policy excludes the theft of any pedal cycle left both unlocked and unattended away from the home . |
| 27 | Completions in the Midlands and South of England were 3103 , 17 per cent down from 1991 figures , which reflected both reduced sales outlets as well as the more difficult market . |
| 28 | Neither company could compete with the newcomers by simple price reduction because Franklin and SelecTronics had both invested heavily in the underlying quality of their products and therefore had large costs to amortise . |
| 29 | did you ever raise with him back in January nineteen eighty eight something that you and Mr had both raised before , namely that what goes into the brochure is not to be relied on you 've got to look at the solicitors correspondence , to interpret what is in the brochure , did you ? , did you ever raise that with Mr the solicitor 's correspondence ? |
| 30 | Industrial production and retail sales had both surged , at a rate of 13.7 per cent and 13 per cent respectively . |