Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I applied to join the Royal Air Force and ended up in the Pay Corps , stationed initially at Devizes for three months ' square-bashing . |
| 2 | ‘ Although I ceased to need the physical link some years ago , I still have the ability to use it . ’ |
| 3 | The three judges I met included the first woman judge to be appointed in Geurrero State . |
| 4 | My confidence suffered so much that I failed to reach the 50-wicket mark in three successive County Championship campaigns with Middlesex . |
| 5 | The shops were opening and I browsed for a while in one that sold books as well as newspapers and magazines , but I failed to find the American edition of Rodriguez 's book . |
| 6 | I got caught last week because I got fed the wrong line . |
| 7 | I got fed the wrong line . ’ |
| 8 | I wish I was doing more hours , though really , cos like , I got to take the whole day for it , |
| 9 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 10 | When I got to know the two men well I got a visual image of these judgements — Lenin , solid and stocky , advancing at an even pace , and the slight figure of Bukharin galloping off in front , but always needing to feel Lenin 's presence . |
| 11 | After the breakthrough with Chaman it still took two months of regular visits with Zakir before I got to know the other eunuchs properly . |
| 12 | I got to , when I was going to the little school I got told the little ones . |
| 13 | I tried to ask the Prime Minister , in a parliamentary question , to give details of the additional charters in the various service areas which arise directly from his own citizens charter and to say when each of the new charters would be published . |
| 14 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 15 | It was perhaps because of this , and because I tried to foster the whole idea of positive thinking , that I began to concentrate more and more on visualization . |
| 16 | ‘ I tried to pull the other dog 's jaws back . |
| 17 | Erm , because I was rather sad , I I tried to instore the Rotary Club in the district in taking part , or or encouraging their |
| 18 | She brained me when I tried to reboot the neural net . ’ |
| 19 | She brained me when I tried to reboot the neural net ! ’ |
| 20 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 21 | Erm by this time the mother er in the other room erm had emerged and I helped bring the other children into the er main main room . |
| 22 | Such was my astonishment that I stopped kicking the offending mouse and at the first opportunity went to look at the hedgerow . |
| 23 | No other flowers were in the garden , yet I seemed to smell the strong scent of nicotiana . |
| 24 | Yet I seemed to hear the distant cheers , as each Province selected its king and the champions of Ulster , Leinster , Connaught and Munster set out for Tara and the kingship trials . |
| 25 | We all got a rough average of the scale and the standard of these people , but somehow or other and — I never understood why this happened — I seemed to get the occasional chaps that were given a last chance . |
| 26 | All on the same alder tree we saw coal tits , gold crests , marsh willow tits and long-tailed tits and I learnt to distinguish the whip-like whistling note of the marsh tit . |
| 27 | I endeavoured to interest the National Council for Civil Liberties in the Black case . |
| 28 | I woke to see the dim outlines of a mountain towards the southeast . |
| 29 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
| 30 | I originally decided to meet you because I 'd heard the civil police were n't letting ‘ sleeping spies lie ’ . |