Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Sally was so good , Luckily I 'd remembered to pack the Farley 's Rusks and she had those mixed up with boiled water the guard got for me from the restaurant car . ’ |
| 2 | Oh , yes , I felt tempted to question the Ralembergs . |
| 3 | During my last year at Oxford I had applied to join the Sudan Political Service . |
| 4 | I had gone to visit the RSPB 's osprey reserve at Loch Garten , and had been struck by the symbolism of that site , where the birds flew free and the humans were , in effect , in a cage . |
| 5 | If we knew she 'd gone to climb the Himalayas , we would n't care . |
| 6 | She had wanted to ask the Molesworths too , but Lydia would n't let her . |
| 7 | With a gesture which reminded Julia of someone searching their pockets for change , she picked up the present which she had brought to welcome the Dean . |
| 8 | Under the new procedure BR sent us , plus two Americans we 'd persuaded to visit the Ffestiniog , by taxi to Blaenau Ffestiniog . |
| 9 | Royal Bank Chief Executive Dr George Mathewson said , ‘ Following hard on the heels of our announcement in April that we had agreed to acquire the Boston Five , this is another encouraging step towards our strategic aim of deriving more than 10 per cent of our earnings from the USA . |
| 10 | The ministers agreed to take " co-ordinated action " to combat the menace of terrorism which they said threatened to destabilize the South Asian region . |
| 11 | The now ‘ buzzing ’ James ( a week previously they had consented to allow the NME to run their cover story ) went into discussion with The Smiths over a proposed filming of James ' appearance for release in Factory 's video outlet Ikon . |
| 12 | It was alleged they had helped to organise the Castlemorton free festival . |
| 13 | And he 'd meant to watch the God slot . |
| 14 | Clenching his fist to deliver an imaginary uppercut , he sketched the very blow he had used to crush the Warlord 's face . |
| 15 | He noted that the government commission which he had established to investigate the Parys affair had paid more attention to this than the commission later appointed at Walesa 's request [ see p. 38881 ] . |
| 16 | By now he had come to symbolize the Montparnasse adventure , and even in his worst moments he had a glamour about him , a sense of intensity , that excited envy and admiration . |
| 17 | De Gaulle had long believed that the PCF 's tendency to align itself with Moscow invalidated it in crucial respects , and in November 1945 he had refused to give the PCF one of the three ministries that he regarded as essential to national security . |
| 18 | There was no demonstrable prejudice to Findlay by the amendment : the case against him , based on the admissions. remained the same : that he had agreed to rob the Hainault post office at a date unknown . |
| 19 | Although he had managed to get the Lancaster onto a fairly level plane , it was still pitching forwards and was uncontrollable . |
| 20 | The former phrase was coined by Thoreau to indicate his resistance to the laws of the state , and it was the title of an essay by him which Gandhi read after he had started to resist the South African authorities . |