Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They sold their assets — empty sites , empty schools , council houses — in the hope this would permit them to continue to build with the money .
2 He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says :
3 Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 .
4 As they became established , shares in many of them became quoted on the Stock Exchange .
5 Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him .
6 ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory .
7 And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and
8 When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall .
9 She notes that a more detailed look at the results above shows that boys are more likely to obtain three A level passes than girls , even though the gap between them has narrowed over the years .
10 SINCE the first police forces were founded 150 years ago , everything about them has changed except the way they are organised .
11 Thus , sometimes a seller will find himself still in possession of goods after the ownership in them has passed to the buyer .
12 From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings .
13 From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings .
14 As a boy , encouraged by my mother , I became fascinated by the mass of mostly unsorted papers lying in the cellars at Plas Newydd .
15 I became fascinated by the variety of ways .
16 I became fascinated by the variety of ways .
17 We did n't see any whales , sharks , or polar bears underwater , but I became fascinated by the cast of characters which made up the food chain in these waters .
18 Whilst at college I became intrigued by the evidence that Indian art seemed to mean ancient Indian art , referring only to that era before imperialism .
19 ‘ It hit Britain in a big way in the mid 80s and I became engrossed in the game .
20 He commented on his project : ‘ The more I explored , the more I became absorbed with the mystery of the environment .
21 So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study .
22 Looking intermittently at the so-called colonial art of Latin America in churches , museums , private collections and books , I became magnetised by the figures of angels .
23 Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom .
24 I asked to speak to the person in charge of the station .
25 I avoided looking at the thermometer .
26 Yeah , I jus I skidded to stop on the back end of it .
27 In the light of the overall aim , set an immediate end result by answering the question ‘ What result do I want to achieve by the end of this interaction ? ’
28 Imagine my shock when , just as I 'd begun thumping the bottom of the big brown pot , I chanced to look inside the bin and there , half buried in rubbish , was Cymbeline 's red plastic teapot .
29 I mean I read according to the paper this morning young people have got to have a
30 I made to go down the stairs to see what was happening .
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