Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't see the new dog till it was nearly six months old and its mistress asked me to call to treat it for a slight attack of eczema . |
| 2 | Quite why this put the scrutineers in a dilemma I do n't know , but they asked me to protest to get them off the hook . |
| 3 | Other times she made me promise to keep them for ever , to remember her by , and say a prayer She was a bit vague who it was I was to pray to . |
| 4 | The strap is a strong rubber one but I found I had to overtighten it at the surface , otherwise it became loose when my drysuit seal compressed at depth . |
| 5 | It did n't hurt that much , but he pretended she 'd got him in the balls , hoping for a little wifely penitence . |
| 6 | His tousled hair gave him an appealingly boyish appearance , and Robbie found herself aching to smooth it for him , to run her fingers over the dark stubble on his cheeks . |
| 7 | In fact I even found myself trying to diagnose it like an illness , analysing it in terms of location , sensation , modalities , concomitants . ’ |
| 8 | For the first time in her life she faced the truth of her past , clear-eyed as her formidable father 's daughter ought to be , devoid of pride and love of self , and inspected what had brought her to this pass . |
| 9 | Then they 'd they 'd bunged us in the train and sent us down to Marseilles . |
| 10 | Miss Evans had become Auntie Lou and it seemed they had known her for ever . |
| 11 | From her encouraging smile I realised she had suggested me for something . |
| 12 | Lucy knew she had to tell him something , so she said , ‘ She got mad with me when I admitted you 'd taken me for two bush walks . |
| 13 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
| 14 | He was without a car for two days and claimed it had cost him at least £300 in business . |
| 15 | Minton claimed he had sent it to an exhibition under the name ‘ Francis Smiling ’ and that one critic commented that Francis Smiling had been influenced by Minton 's colour . |
| 16 | When police approached Robert Francis , who was in possession of the caravan , he claimed he had bought it for £2,000 from a colleague . |
| 17 | He had been found asleep on the floor of a taxi outside a night club and claimed he had hired it for the evening as his bedroom . |
| 18 | ‘ Simon reckoned he 'd adored you for years and that he intended to be that boyfriend , and he 'd make it happen by ensuring the two of you were together as much as possible . |
| 19 | In the telegram which Randolph sent her from Cape Town telling her what had happened , he asked her on no account to tell his father , the prime minister , but to arrange payments on the instalment plan of perhaps £10 a month to a list of the names he enclosed who had fleeced him at the cards tables . |
| 20 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 21 | And as she fell she sensed him plunge to meet her like a meteor on fire , heard the sound he made against her sundered throat . |
| 22 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
| 23 | ‘ Which presumably makes me the better teacher , ’ he returned with a dryness that made her want to pummel him with her fists from sheer frustration . |
| 24 | I asked her to come to see me on the day after her arrival and at the hour of sunset , the best time for the wonderful view that I then had to offer her . |
| 25 | It made him turn to face her from the bottom of the steps . |
| 26 | He knew no-one had seen him at Barak 's house otherwise he 'd have been charged straight away . |
| 27 | I felt I had to mention it to you , but let this be the end of it . |
| 28 | Unused as I am to public scribbling , and tardy to boot ( I 've just read your December/January issue ) , I felt I had to thank you for saving me time and trouble ( not to mention hard-won shekels ) , in a search for something which obviously does not exist . |
| 29 | When I met Kirk and started to work with him , I sort of felt I 'd known him in some other life . |
| 30 | I 'd been told the baby was semi-posterior so I knew I had to turn her into a more comfortable position for birth . |