Example sentences of "[verb] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowd at Darlington 's home game bought a total of £150-worth of tickets for the prize draw , and organisers say the warm reception they received helped them endure the icy conditions . |
| 2 | The plaintiff himself did not give evidence , so there was no evidence ( as opposed to submissions ) as to what the plaintiff would have done had he known the full facts . |
| 3 | Each magazine article I read advised me to buy the best , the fastest , the latest or whatever . |
| 4 | They were tricked into doing so because , although in a sense they entered voluntarily , they would not have entered had they known the true nature of the shop and its managers . |
| 5 | What she saw made her read the whole page carefully . |
| 6 | He had told Amy none of this but would have happily confided had she shown the least interest . |