Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herr Schikenader , the former proprietor , chanced to see me perform one evening . |
| 2 | Because of his principles he had n't served in the Forces and they 'd made him do labouring jobs instead , so that now his hands were n't what they used to be either . |
| 3 | I came searching for you at the shop and one of your neighbours told me she 'd seen you come this way . ‘ |
| 4 | She was impressed , and agreed to let him exhibit some work in one of the long corridors leading from reception to the dining-room . |
| 5 | Although Peter returned to help you finish that tour , the early '70s must have been fraught with looking for replacements , before you crystallised the line-up with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks … |
| 6 | The council said : ‘ We offered to help him find private accommodation . ’ |
| 7 | Temperament and conviction combined to make him see this moment , not as one of intriguing human possibilities , but as one offering an unofficial means to an official end . |
| 8 | Chapter 2 aimed to let you learn some things about yourself and to discover what kind of area you might feel happiest and most fulfilled working in . |
| 9 | I did hear you call several times for ‘ William ’ . |
| 10 | She had heard him use that tone of voice in the past and knew exactly what it meant . |
| 11 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |
| 12 | Karen , very tired and possibly a little drunk , realised slowly that she had seen him deploy this technique before , at an earlier dinner in the house , and that somehow it was probably quite offensive . |
| 13 | The Shah 's own eyes 's were wet , This was not the first time that his officers had seen him show such emotion . |
| 14 | It was the first time I had seen him reveal any emotion in his face , and it had something of the intensity of grief . |
| 15 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
| 16 | Because , apart from the emotion of the moment , what had made me take this decision was really a kind of pride : I had to see myself as someone who had done the ‘ right thing ’ . |
| 17 | " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to . |
| 18 | and he said do you do any running and he said no , but he said his son 's bought him a mountain bike , so he |
| 19 | Speaking to one of the workers in one of the children 's homes , said do you think that child prostitution in the children 's homes is something new because it 's on the front of the T and A ? |
| 20 | and anyway this fellow said do you want some rabbit it 's a pound each , so we ordered some rabbits , ai n't got them yet like , but I do n't know if we 'll get them or not |
| 21 | Was it Monday , no it was yesterday , I was in the loo and I could hear this paper being ripped and I thought oh they 've got one of my club catalogues , I did n't think any more of it and then I could hear Joseph going weee , I thought what the devil 's he got , so went out , Joseph has got the flying circus bus that was meant for Charlotte and him and , Brenda and Charlotte was sharing the , the , garage thing that I 've brought so I thought well now it 's out , well they 're not going to keep all that till I said to him whatever is Father Christmas going to say , I said he 's supposed to be taking these away to bring I said er , what 's Father Christmas gon na say ? , no Ben forget , so I thought while they 're out I could see Joseph 's playing a lot , way with this bus thing , he was having a whale of a time , he thought that was great , so I said to Charlotte I said do you like that bus ? |
| 22 | When I wrote out the application form and it said did I have any experience , I just adapted it . |
| 23 | I I said does anybody like lumpy custard . |
| 24 | When I was out of the room , he told Margaret that he wanted to see me write weightier books than that . |
| 25 | Ultimately the gig lacked magic because the crowd wanted to hear him play some Eric Clapton numbers . |
| 26 | There were days when the leaders of the band refused to let them light any kind of fire in case German patrols found them and yet they somehow still had to produce food that the men could eat . |
| 27 | Politically , it was the master idea of the nineteenth century , drawing on the need of men to feel linked to other men at a time when market society tended to make them feel isolated beings . |