Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I shouted for someone to get him out , but I knew instantly that he could n't be saved . |
| 2 | ‘ I shouted for someone to get him out , but I knew instantly that he could n't be saved . |
| 3 | I replied : " Well it never occurred to me to put it anywhere else ; this is the engineering hangar area and you could find out very quickly , once you jack up this port wing , what happened to the undercarriage . " |
| 4 | No , Kensington and Kennington might be separated only by a letter of the alphabet but the streets that came between them took you out of one world and into another . |
| 5 | Blanche winked at Dexter and nodded for him to follow her outside with his coat . |
| 6 | The first was just 20 minutes after the polls closed when , during a sample of random live interviews in Manchester , a man with a business on the verge of bankruptcy cheerfully admitted that the Tories had got him into this and he relied on them to get him out . |
| 7 | I indicated that legal action was , in my view , inappropriate in respect of what was a rather feeble attempt at satire , and the importance of the programme would be enhanced to an absurd extent if anyone depicted in it took it seriously , but none of us liked being ridiculed . |
| 8 | I waved to him to follow me in and he snuffed the Nissan 's engine and climbed out . |
| 9 | Is n't it the case that Palmerston when he was on his death bed had the clause to the Belgian treaty read to him to cheer him up . |
| 10 | She waited , holding her breath , wondering whether he would really answer all the questions that had been buzzing around in her head ever since she had first met him , or whether he would skirt around the subject and depend instead on the overwhelming attraction she felt for him to talk her back into bed . |
| 11 | He reached for her to kiss her again and Sally clung to him hoping that somehow the contact would make everything come right . |
| 12 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
| 13 | Good , I , I thought of you following him around watching what he was going to do . |
| 14 | What I knew of him corrupted me far less than the false ideas I conceived . |
| 15 | Anyway , th the guy we had tonight reckoned that er he never quite got to grips with er Bernstein and he 's f and he , he apologized for being stuck in restrictive which er he could n't even remember that it was called restrictive until somebody told him but he said ah yes that 's it , but yes I never managed to he said I never managed to really get very far with that . |
| 16 | The way Tony DeFries went at it made me very suspicious . |
| 17 | so I put it on the top of there , every time anybody went by they knocked it off ! |
| 18 | He thought it was me , and he put on a bit of a spurt and as he went by I tripped him up . ’ |
| 19 | If only she could tell him how she longed for him to carry her off , but would n't that make him think her wanton ? |
| 20 | I waited for her to say something else , but she did n't , so I asked to speak to Toby . |
| 21 | Jess waited for her to make something out of her small success , but she did n't and sat with folded hands looking into the ever-changing flames licking round the coal . |
| 22 | Accordingly he disappeared into the upward-travelling lift , while she waited for one to take her down a floor where a corridor linked this building to the next one , in which the twenty-four-hour blood bank was located . |
| 23 | A woman arriving at the house fiddled with the lock as she waited for someone to let her in , but finally , with a despairing gesture , gave up the attempt to fix it long before she was admitted . |
| 24 | They passed us , waited for us to catch them up and they 're behind us again . ’ |
| 25 | That he would have done much more is years to come is certain ; yet the quality and the richness of what he left behind him make it equally certain that this very patient man , who to achieve his ends knew how to take his time , never wasted a minute of his life . |
| 26 | one lady said to me take everyone else |
| 27 | Well there there i they used to s you know invite everybody you said to you know everybody down on the picket line , well we were kids we used to go like re to be quite honest like we went because it were you know a bit of fun really . |
| 28 | I ran at it to break it down . |
| 29 | The money they wanted for us to use it even just a weekend was absolutely ridiculous which to me seems in opposition to the whole idea of the borough . |
| 30 | Tim jumped on her to wake her up but she only said go away , and went back to sleep again . |