Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It brought several things to mind : the evident barrier during negotiations between the steward and the women ; the warnings of a friend about my own relationship with the steward — ‘ You put too much trust in that man ’ ; and the remark made when I reported how I had initially explained my research aims to the union stewards — ‘ You told the Secret Service ! |
| 2 | The pilot study helped identify specific areas that restricted my practice and therefore limited my effectiveness |
| 3 | She said , keeping the smile fixed firmly on her face , ‘ Perhaps , once you 've heard my story , you 'll feel a little differently . |
| 4 | They must have heard my scream . |
| 5 | Up to a dozen viewers had heard my throwaway remarks and had assumed that the party at Frenchay really would be out in the street . |
| 6 | ’ I still have my doubts , ’ she said , almost as if she 'd heard my thought . |
| 7 | Now Er well th er th members of the Parish Council if there are any present as I imagine there are , will have heard my question . |
| 8 | I reckoned I 've heard my mam say Tommy . |
| 9 | Then started the discussion about where to store it until the inevitable happened , during the course of which the doorbell rang and an elderly neighbour was revealed who had kindly called to introduce himself and to ask if there was anything he could do to help me , as he had heard my husband was ill in hospital . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’ |
| 11 | But the weekly half-hour I liked best was devoted to the old music hall songs of the ‘ gay nineties ’ , many of which I had heard my father sing . |
| 12 | He came back and used another word I knew of course but had never heard my father , or any adult , say before . |
| 13 | I do n't remember her of course but I 've heard my father and them speaking about it . |
| 14 | But er I w I would think , although it 's before my time , I would think that er of what I 've heard my father talking about these early days , there was great enthusiasm for motorcycles and of course some of the early registered numbers you 'll find that there 's many of them were motorcycles , the young men of the town who had probably been cyclists , quite a number of them er took up this motorcycling and they made their own motorcycles so were buying either kits and er even manufacturing the tanks and these things themselves . |
| 15 | And this man used to go up , do you know I 've heard my father say he 's come up three or four times a week and help him and when they slaughtered the things they used to have the slaughterhouse down the piste years ago , as I 'm talking about sixty , sixty , seventy years ago , sixty years ago , where they used to slaughter the stuff , you see , down the piste and this was the Christmas show this was , all these hindquarters of beef . |
| 16 | You 've heard my explanation of the fact that it was poorly worded and I think that is a great shame . |
| 17 | ‘ Have they heard my news already ? ’ |
| 18 | You have heard my opinion that in general terms , the existence of a conservation area is an indication of the likelihood of a contribution being made to the special character of the settlement and therefore to the setting of York , which is the prime purpose or the prime function of the York greenbelt . |
| 19 | By that time I 'd heard my pimp was in custody , and I started renting a flat . |
| 20 | She would have seen me the week before ; and this time , have heard my arrival and tried to catch a glimpse of me — that explained the old man 's quick looks past me , and perhaps some of his nervous strangeness . |
| 21 | As I stood there my mind raced back to that time so many years ago when I had heard my mother say , ‘ I do n't love you , Nicky . ’ |
| 22 | I had heard my mother 's friends sometimes whispering ruefully of The Change , but I saw the loss of innocence as the greatest and the worst change . |
| 23 | I had heard my mother and Robert come in and had gone to sleep much later . |
| 24 | " You 've bashed my car " , you say , surveying the damage . |
| 25 | He had evidently forgiven my mimicry . |
| 26 | As I commented a little earlier to somebody , I still have n't quite forgiven my mother-in-law for the chemistry set she bought my seven-year-old . |
| 27 | Well they 're a lot of fun and kids love them , and as I commented a little earlier to somebody I still have n't quite forgiven my mother-in-law for the chemistry set she bought my seven year old . |
| 28 | As I commented a little earlier to somebody , I still have n't quite forgiven my mother-in-law for the chemistry set she bought my seven-year-old . |
| 29 | I did n't mean to become so intense about it — I had realised my mistake the previous time — but I needed to keep from pining and working a sixteen-hour day seemed to be the only way I could manage it . |
| 30 | But then , if I had waited until you had your full wits about you , you might have realised my intention and signed the house over to your daughter and her bastard . ’ |