Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light . |
| 3 | He said he 'd heard it on the radio this mornin' . |
| 4 | His daughter Diane Perry said she was rung by her husband from work after he 'd heard it on the radio . |
| 5 | ‘ When I told Martin that I was 10 weeks ' pregnant with my second child , he enjoyed telling people how clever I was because I 'd arranged it between the interims and the final results ! ’ |
| 6 | He was obviously peeved that we 'd squared it with the music teacher while he did n't know anything about it . |
| 7 | Then I 'd wondered if some women who 'd stopped me on the path had taken it . |
| 8 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 9 | She had the fleeting impression that she 'd caught him on the raw . |
| 10 | They were some of the best he 'd ever taken , he said , but it was difficult to tell since he 'd dropped them in the water when he was changing film . |
| 11 | They 'd met them in the pub a couple of weeks back . |
| 12 | He 'd met her on the beach walking with a dog , a wire-haired terrier called Dolly which had come sniffing up to him . |
| 13 | I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’ |
| 14 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |
| 15 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 17 | I suppose the fact that I 'd made it at the age of 14 was important because it meant I would go a long way in athletics . |
| 18 | He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them . |
| 19 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 20 | She stared at him and , as her eyes met his , once again , like the moment he 'd seen her in the pool , she seemed unable to look away . |
| 21 | He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired . |
| 22 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 23 | Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm |
| 24 | He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 27 | I 'd seen it along the end of the track . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop |
| 30 | It was a look she recognised instantly , although it was the first time she 'd seen it in the flesh . |