Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For the next three hours the motorbike led them a nightmare chase over more than a hundred kilometres of mountain roads that were often little more than channels covered by scree and loose gravel , furrowed by rain-water and ridged by surfacing strata of rock . |
| 32 | Then the local centre for the handicapped lent them a wheelchair , so they were able to get out and about . |
| 33 | There were few holidays , or trips to the famous surf of the Australian beaches , until friends of the family lent them a house by the sea in later years . |
| 34 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 35 | When I showed her she lent me a silk shawl to drape round my shoulders and over my breasts . |
| 36 | She lent me a couple of hundred quid because I was in financial difficulty . |
| 37 | And Mrs Fawcett came rushing up to the hospital with the perfect solution : she lent me a battery-operated portable radio . |
| 38 | Last summer one of my friends lent me a C.B. and an old aerial as he had bought a new set and some more of my friends had C.B.s . |
| 39 | When I was playing rugby and I hurt my thumb she actually lent me a very expensive Jaeger coat to keep me warm . |
| 40 | Ginny lent me The King Must Die . |
| 41 | She lent me the money to get my second bike — that Triumph Speed Twin : it had a lot of poke for the size . |
| 42 | I 'm just sorry the whole thing happened and the man who must be embarrassed about this most of all is sponsor Matt Laverty who lent me the bike on Thursday night at practice . ’ |
| 43 | I was short of a few quid to do anything about it so my mate lent me the money , we went to a scrap yard , picked up a spare and he delivered me back here in his motor , then your chaps picked me up . ’ |
| 44 | The personality thing concerned me a little — for a club is all its members . |
| 45 | We remain convinced that full merger is the best way forward and the amendment will e enable the project to make progress If the Lib Dems have changed their mind Chairman and do support the forthcoming Labour amendment erm th the worst aspect for me is that I 've lost a bet because Bob bet me a year ago that the Lib Dems would not last the distance and he 's been proved right . |
| 46 | Albert as chairman asked me a number of questions to which he already knew the answers for the good reason that we had already gone over them in Fulham . |
| 47 | He asked me a lot of questions which I did not understand . |
| 48 | Maxine asked me a number of the usual questions , and I answered each one in turn hoping to set her mind at rest . |
| 49 | And he asked me a lot of very pertinent questions which seemed to me more than idle curiosity . |
| 50 | ‘ I asked you a question , you asked me a question , but I did n't leap out of nowhere and start a fight , did I ? |
| 51 | Then the King asked me a large number of questions . |
| 52 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 53 | ‘ Man asked me a question , did n't he ? |
| 54 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 55 | He asked me a lot of suspicious questions , and eventually I was shown to what must have been the poorest room in his house , over the kitchen , facing a hen-run . |
| 56 | The hon. Gentleman asked me a number of specific questions . |
| 57 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Southend , West asked me a number of specific questions . |
| 58 | They asked me a few questions and withdrew to grunt amongst themselves , then came back and welcomed me as one of them . |
| 59 | you asked me a question . |
| 60 | You asked me a question I gave an answer . |