Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] a [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | Neither of them asked to see a girl called Evelyn Harris and Jackie guessed correctly that her letter had gone astray , though he never said as much to her . |
2 | Er being an agriculturalist rather than a planner I tend to get a bit confused by higher planning semantics of the difference between strict control and presumption against not normally . |
3 | But I found having a child had put enormous strains on the marriage . |
4 | Er so , when I want to create a directory called put off the root directory . |
5 | I want to create a directory called put off the root directory . |
6 | I was sure I 'd seen a punch thrown . |
7 | ‘ I 'd had a novel published when I was 16 , really quite a poor novel called The Kids , the kind of thing that people write when they 're in the fifth form , except that mine got published . |
8 | I 'd never heard of Knudsen until earlier this morning when I was somewhere over the North Sea on my way from England and I happened to open a magazine aimed at Nordic Airport passengers . |
9 | On one occasion I recall having a rabbit sealed in a single hole . |
10 | I recall imitating a stunt performed by the obscure Buffalo Bill Jnr in a Poverty Kow serial , when he outwitted his pursuers by swinging at speed from saddle into tree . |
11 | ‘ I like to see a job done . ’ |
12 | Vacuum cleaner ( linked to one — a bun ) : There is nothing particularly unusual about using a vacuum cleaner to pick up the crumbs of a bun so I decided to picture a bun decorated with a vacuum cleaner on top . |
13 | Eventually I managed to find a page torn from a local bus timetable which showed the Province of Parma . |
14 | Quite recently Jack , my mother and I went to see a film called Enemies : A Love Story , a story of three Holocaust survivors set in 1940s New York . |
15 | ‘ I do feel a bit shaken . |
16 | ‘ I do feel a bit drained , ’ she admitted . |
17 | But if by some freak mischance I do get a bit stuck , you know what I do ? ’ |
18 | I remembered reading a quotation attributed to Hermes Trismegistus , a Ptolemaic deity linked with Thoth , the god of wisdom . |
19 | However I did get a bit cheesed off with the movie 's rather plodding pace . |
20 | ‘ Well , I did get a bit depressed at times … and I got through a few pairs of shoes . ’ |
21 | After all , if I did have a fiancé tucked away , that would change the situation rather dramatically . |
22 | I had manufactured a woman called Elsie . |
23 | It was the first time I had seen a ship built from scratch and it was quite an experience to watch the steel plates being cut by their ingenious machine which controlled a cutter as it drew our the required shapes direct from the blueprint , converting everything to full scale as it cut . |
24 | ‘ In the end I ran out of material so I had to use a sketch devised by my son ! |
25 | He had spoken Lear 's opening lines and I had felt a shiver run through the theatre 's great darkness , because the voice was there , and the power of it , and he was suddenly not a dirty old man at all , but a great , kind , foolish and painfully honest King . |
26 | Yeah cos I 've seen a sub based |
27 | We certainly have not ceased erm to undertake educational work and erm I do from time to time er do a number of reports on that work for er our funding bodies and er recently I 've done a report requested by Northern Arts , for the Arts Council I believe . |
28 | So I 'm have it straight across and I 've had a border put across there just to make |
29 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |
30 | Very minor on the scale of things but I 've had a car stolen , erm great inconvenience , ca n't believe its going to happen to you , did n't do any thing to have caused this , locked up and took all the precautions , and yet it still happened and some one , some where out there has my car . |