Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his own political outlook was also vital : ‘ Those influences made me want to write a history of the game 's toilers , the hired labourers . |
| 2 | ‘ He just asked how you were , made me promise to keep an eye on you , then rang off , ’ she said , frowning . |
| 3 | So I mean again I realized I had dug a hole for myself with the compressed funding but at the same time I was saying to myself oh yeah there is carry forward here er |
| 4 | I realized I had made a mistake . |
| 5 | I realised I 'd made a mistake as soon as he tightened his arms around my neck . |
| 6 | ‘ The full weight of the Children 's Department came down on us for that scene and , in retrospect , I realised I had made a mistake letting that go through . |
| 7 | But , thinking the process through sensibly , I realised I needed to write an essay before winning the £200 , hence I had to find a suitable topic . |
| 8 | The new government advisory agency , Scottish Natural Heritage , recently invited me to help judge a painting competition for schools . |
| 9 | I tried declaring my own sense of dissatisfaction to a few friends and found I 'd caught a tiger by the tail . |
| 10 | So , when I found I wanted to write a book that would reflect a little on whether we should strive to be perfect or settle for the second-best but practical , I realised I would have to have a murder that was in some way imperfect . |
| 11 | It was vaguely insulting to know that he treated her as casually as he would have treated any stranger with whom he found himself forced to share a house . |
| 12 | His small round face crinkled up like a naughty baby and , through his irritation , Georg found himself having to stifle a grin of his own . |
| 13 | She 'd missed a chance to go skating with Auntie Joan and when she came downstairs , she found she 'd missed a visit from Grandpa as well . |
| 14 | But I think that , you know , we 've got so involved we 've done a lot of work in our time , but now we do n't seem to be erm There is a younger element coming in they tell me . |
| 15 | Tossing her sunglasses and some local currency into a tote bag , she found herself having to make a dash up to the top deck , arriving to find Niall leaning against the rail . |
| 16 | The police soon traced the couple 's movements and found they had made a number of telephone calls to Paris . |
| 17 | The men who stopped her had done a lot of talking on their radio before taking her to their police station . |
| 18 | CW reported he had passed a list of requirements to meet EC Directive on Workstation H & S to IL , but he had not yet had time to discuss eye and eyesight testing requirements with M Prior . |
| 19 | Police even found he had hidden a piece of metal , which they believe he planned to file into a knife , hidden in the sole of his shoe . |
| 20 | ‘ Next day he packed his bags and I found he had taken a load of my clothes , ’ added Kim . |
| 21 | He found he had drawn a noose , remembered how Sandy Riverton had died inside the old bell tower , scribbled it out before Newman could see it . |
| 22 | After all his empty-headed bimbos , he found he liked having a woman around him who demanded a bit of respect . |
| 23 | " Some of the groups " , the White Paper said , " found themselves attempting to reconcile a wish for strict emissions targets , and hence a wish to phase out all fossil fuel burning , with a dislike for the nuclear option and support for coal in the short term . |
| 24 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 25 | As I looked at him , it seemed I had found a brother and sisters to love and be proud of for the rest of my life . |
| 26 | And she liked the idea of going to work you see , she 'd she 'd got a family , she 'd be about oh she was about ten years older than I was and erm she looked out of place you know . |
| 27 | Now it seemed she had found a man she could love , but he was someone else 's husband and her brother was bent on vengeance . |
| 28 | Zambia noticed she 'd grown a tuft of the real stuff back which fell into her eyes . |
| 29 | In the Masai the British believed they had found an audience capable of appreciating their own greatness of soul . |
| 30 | I spent the whole of my first year waiting to be tapped on the shoulder and told they 'd made a mistake . |