Example sentences of "[vb mod] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Says Dawn , of Blundellsands : ‘ I love my dad because when my mum goes out he let's me put mousse on his hair and rollers . |
| 2 | Says Dawn , of Blundellsands : ‘ I love my dad because when my mum goes out he let's me put mousse on his hair and rollers . |
| 3 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 4 | When at 7.30 am on Saturday 8 May I saw Marion Reid sitting in brilliant sunshine on the pavement , beside the doll 's house she had made for the Sale , waiting for the Church doors to be opened , I knew that all would be well . |
| 5 | In May I received a letter from two curators , Gabriele Horn and Beatrice Stammer , from the Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin asking if I would like to participate in their room in ‘ 34 Rooms ’ , a project ‘ realised in direct co-operation with 34 curators , critics and others involved in the production of exhibitions , all currently active in Berlin ’ . |
| 6 | On 28 May I received a letter from this other Mr. , which did NOT , however , ask for greater detail , as expected . |
| 7 | " Mother , " she said one day , " may I put Dom João 's medal away until Dom João comes ? " |
| 8 | May I put Strathclyde 's record straight ? |
| 9 | In May I placed an order for an expensive acoustic guitar . |
| 10 | On 25 May I dined with Eliot at the Oxford and Cambridge Club . |
| 11 | HARMONY IN MY HEAD Brian May I spoke to Brian May on the day the news broke that his guitar had been mistakenly despatched to France by a roadie , to await an uncertain fate at the hands of ‘ lost and found ’ … |
| 12 | The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training . |
| 13 | I said well we had I said I had a bit of a run in with the lady who ran it , I did n't agree that he should be compelled to do singing which she thought he should I said and we had a decided it cos he . |
| 14 | We well you should I said ! |
| 15 | So she so he said , Why should you sat with your Sam she says cos he has a mother and father . |
| 16 | Then he remembered that the vicar 's sister-in-law was called Penelope — but why should she sent him a card ? |
| 17 | Must everybody turned out , whoever it was . |
| 18 | More important , it was necessary that somebody should he acquainted with the details of imperial finance , and the Athenian constitution , like that of Rome in the republic , had no provision for a civil service , and like the Roman Senate , the Athenians governed and legislated as amateurs . |
| 19 | So the law does acknowledge now that people generate obligations to certain relatives during their lifetime , and that these should he honoured after their death . |
| 20 | The main line should he greased to float in 99 per cent of fishing situations . |
| 21 | A conciliatory tone should he adopted for a letter of adjustment . |
| 22 | It would have been wrong to propose that subsidized admission to such schools should he offered to very bright pupils , at the same time that comprehension was being commended ( sometimes forcefully so ) to grammar schools . |
| 23 | Transports , were , the Admiralty declared , frequently held up by drunken and indisciplined seamen , to the detriment of the war effort , and seriously proposed that all men in the mercantile marine should he conscripted into the Royal Naval Reserve under naval discipline . |
| 24 | It should he pointed out , however , that high quality preparations of M1 human eggs in which reliable chiasma counts could be made , have never really been obtained despite numerous attempts on the part of many workers over a number of years . |
| 25 | First , it should he held up for critical inspection , pilloried when necessary . |
| 26 | To this he added a determination that existing regulations which restricted the number and quality of foreign seamen employed on British ships should he enforced and strengthened , drawing attention to the abuse whereby shipowners discharged British seamen at foreign ports and hired cheaper foreign crews to replace them and to the need to repeal the Indian Merchant Shipping Act which permitted owners to employ lascars on worse terms than British seamen . |
| 27 | Pitch and pace should he varied to avoid monotone and an uninteresting delivery . |
| 28 | One of the things that always intrigued me , and still does , concerned his Oxford tailor who seemed to think that the practice of having the brevet just above the left breast pocket on the tunic should he reviewed . |
| 29 | The slaughter appears to have been very great and the Shoan losses are estimated at twelve thousand killed , to which must he added twelve to fourteen thousand killed in the two previous fights when Fitaurari Gelli 's and Ras Lul Seged 's forces were annihilated . |
| 30 | Energy must he absorbed to break a bond . |