Example sentences of "[vb base] 'd [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Such a setting , as Coleridge acknowledges in the poem , he might once have sought out to echo the mood of a ‘ sad gloom-pamper 'd Man ’ ; but now his descriptions of the sea breeze moaning through the house , the thunder of the ‘ onward-surging tides ’ and the watchfire shining out from Flat Holm in the Bristol Channel , are powerfully transformed by the central fact of his love for Sara , and become part of a vast natural counterpoint to intimate and far from gloomy thoughts .
2 Here a gay Prospect meets the ravish 'd Eye :
3 Amphion led the ravish 'd Stones
4 On the swampy willow scrub of the Wealdmoors in Shropshire , the local rector described in 1673 how ‘ the inhabitants commonly hang 'd bells about the necks of their cows that they might the more easily find them ’ .
5 I gaze with Rapture on her vary 'd Charms
6 In 1799 the shearmen of Wiltshire threatened those who were introducing dressing machinery : " if you follow this practice any longer … we will keep som people to watch you about with loaded Blunderbuss or Pistols And will certainly blow your Brains out it is no use to destroy the Factorys But put you Damn 'd Villions to death " .
7 1805 The stent includes " The Sum allow 'd Mrs. MacMillan , Professed Midwife , for her encouragement to attend & remain in the Island for this year .
8 If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar , this is my answer : Not that I lov 'd Caesar less , but that I lov 'd Rome more .
9 If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar , this is my answer : Not that I lov 'd Caesar less , but that I lov 'd Rome more .
10 About a stone cast from the wall A sluice with blacken 'd waters slept .
11 He fought his doubts and gather 'd strength ,
12 Now June June 'd say what granddad said , Ask 'd June 'd say , I asked you I asked her .
13 And with a Sigh address 'd the alter 'd Shade .
14 They 've even subpoena 'd Unigram.X little realising we print everything we know .
15 Ye banish 'd trees , ye make me deeply sigh —
16 Where banish 'd Nature leaves a barren Gloom ,
17 To give the duke his due , he was suitably cautious , for he advised that the presentation be kept secret ‘ till things be ripen 'd wt the ministers of the presbytery and heretors , and people , as much as possible ’ .
18 Ye injur 'd fields , ye once were gay , When Nature 's hand displayed Long waving rows of willows grey And clumps of hawthorn shade ; But now , alas ! your hawthorn bowers All desolate we see !
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