Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | St John approved of my keenness to work , and promised to find me some paid employment . |
| 2 | Kate bent to give her one last kiss . |
| 3 | One MP even tried to put him right last night . |
| 4 | The players sat as far away from her as they could , but the smell and the squealing promised to keep them awake all night . |
| 5 | Although the F B I thought this another delaying tactic , it helped persuade them that mass suicide was unlikely , and that it was therefore safe to force a conclusion . |
| 6 | Certainly , it was quite a strenuous walk — though I can say it failed to cause me any real difficulty — the path rising in zigzags up the hillside for a hundred yards or so . |
| 7 | I know that three days before they were killed , twenty-five people were invited to that house for the mass whipping of a dealer from Sunset Strip who 'd given them some bad dope . |
| 8 | Anna coped with him all right , Giorgio never seemed to cause her any real pain ; her tirades , which used to be against the prince , were about Constanza who had ruined our lives by losing Simon . |
| 9 | I 'd seen him earlier that night , here at the house , behaving in a way that made me very anxious to find out what he was doing here on Moila . ’ |
| 10 | If you 'd told me all those years ago , I would have grown up with the idea of another mother , perhaps miles away , perhaps just around the corner . |
| 11 | There was a ring of sadness in his voice which she found puzzling until she remembered something from the past — Eddie 's voice repeating what he 'd told her all those years ago at the Oulton Park circuit . |
| 12 | One was a 70-year-old Watcher who threatened to do us grievous bodily harm and then hand herself in thus doubling at a stroke the NW clear up rate . |
| 13 | Their lamb chops had arrived as she finished telling him this sad story . |
| 14 | Carlie decided to give him one more chance . |
| 15 | The selectors could also have changed their top order , but decided to give them all another chance . |
| 16 | At first they asked me if I wanted my mum to go out but I said No , but when they started asking me all those sorts of questions they asked me again and I said Yes . |
| 17 | The shepherd did as he was ordered , and was ready to leave , when the Emperor started showing him many wondrous weapons , armour , swords , and muskets . |
| 18 | He looked rather pleased with himself so I decided to ask him one more question : ‘ What do we get from chickens ? ’ |
| 19 | He was wearing brown basket-weave shoes and a suit with pronounced machine-stitching around big lapels meant to give it that above-the-ruck bespoke look . |
| 20 | If that is true , it would be a great relief to the indigenous black population of South Africa , who had their country appropriated by foreigners who then proceeded to deny them basic human rights . |
| 21 | It 's only dollars it takes and got to pay her two hundred dollars . |
| 22 | Coupled to an external VHF aerial the 5.0W setting is capable of giving a useful range equal to that of many panel-mounted sets , but on test in the cockpit it failed to offer me much real advantage over the lower-powered units when all were used with the standard screw-on flexible antennas as supplied . |
| 23 | My wife began , I know not whether by design or chance , to enquire what she should do , if I should by any accident die , to which I did give her some slight answer , but shall make good use of it to bring myself to some settlement for her sake , by making a will as soon as I can . ‘ |
| 24 | ‘ We did give him this massive bouquet , though , ’ said Debi . |
| 25 | Yes , in one five , erm they 're practising notes from Eynsham it does happen to be in Cherwell ward and not North ward , erm there is a booklet out about health and housing in Cutteslowe , and I wondered what the connection between , you know , not being on this committee , but these health action areas , and what in fact is happening in housing , because the director did assure me that other wards were going to be treated to the same erm treatment . |
| 26 | He did tell me some other things about himself . |
| 27 | Was it perhaps he who had taught her all those words ? |
| 28 | She was reported as saying that the trial had taught her one important lesson as a barrister — how the victim feels — and called for changes in the law which would give greater protection to victims . |
| 29 | Mary , at reception , had given her this useful piece of information after taking Miss Coldharbour 's call . |
| 30 | As we approached the loch , in order to impress Blair with my vast knowledge , I repeated Stan 's tale about Pennel Point , being careful not to mention who had given me such valuable information . |