Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I heard him say at one gathering that there were certain things he thought ought to be done , and he was going to do them , whether people followed him or not . |
2 | I heard you talk about this hotel . |
3 | I 've had one of your chaps round already , asking whether I saw him go by that evening . ’ |
4 | I saw you disappear in this direction , and decided it was now or never . ’ |
5 | If they were stopped by the police and her basket was searched , he was to say that he knew nothing about the newspapers — she made him agree to this arrangement if he wanted to accompany her on her clandestine journeys . |
6 | ‘ You made me rise to that bait , did n't you ? ’ |
7 | She let him go without further protest . |
8 | She let him go in alone to break the news to Chris . |
9 | She let it rest for longer than she should have done and then moved slightly away . |
10 | Shouldering the gun in the sure knowledge that the Doctor would be seriously pissed off if she let it fall into local hands in this time zone , she drew the grenade from her pockets , and poked her head up just long enough to check the distance . |
11 | She heard him reach for another sandwich . |
12 | " Send Mai to my hut in two minutes , " she heard him say at last in a curt voice . |
13 | ‘ I 'll tell Mr Wilcox she 's here , ’ said Brian Everthorpe , and Robyn thought she saw him wink for some inscrutable reason . |
14 | She saw them glance at each other and exchange a conspiratorial arching of the eyebrows , compounded in Miller 's case by the faintest of nods . |
15 | ‘ When was the last time you saw me sweat like this , ’ he asked the throng of journalists and photographers at the news conference . |
16 | All she knew was when they began to leave the straggling apartment block on the edge of town , because she felt him slide into another gear and the engine opened out with a deep growl , and then they were climbing , climbing , following the sinuous trail deep into a cleft in the mountains . |
17 | Did you did you fight at that time then ? |
18 | said God I hope I do n't look like big Kath and I was saying I think my dear it 'd be a blessing if you did you look like big Kath . |
19 | They made me feel of some value again and the warmth was flooding through me long before the kettle had boiled on the iron stove in the corner . |
20 | Very good , they made you feel like sick . |
21 | They made us stay at one end of the room . |
22 | He made me dress in erotic underwear and to dress as his sex slave . |
23 | He made me work with all his might |
24 | He made me wait for two years . |
25 | He made it sound like bad TV entertainment . |
26 | It made me think of that voodoo thing which hangs round graveyards and wears a top hat . ’ |
27 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
28 | He wished he had n't spotted it as it made him think of this morning and going round the house in Hill View Road , and the idea his Mum and Dad had about moving . |
29 | It made him think about last night 's events . |
30 | It made it look like golden silk , and she had the urge to run her hands over it to find out . |