Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asked me to have two trees planted in the school playing field in her memory to provide shade for children in the summer . |
| 2 | In fact since Mr Brown made his remarks some parents have rang me to lend their support . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 4 | The suffering involved which receives most publicity takes place in intensive or factory farms , although it is not confined to them . |
| 5 | Odette found she lost three stone keeping busy , then to her dismay found she was pregnant again . |
| 6 | Later on the flight to Nice Kate let herself regress ten years to relive once more her beloved only brother 's funeral , something she had forbidden herself to do ever since she 'd left home to go to university . |
| 7 | Looking up in surprise , she found he had one eyebrow raised as though waiting for her to make some sarcastic comment , which successfully ensured that she did n't do any such thing . |
| 8 | We had to contend with some extremely high winds and found it needed extra guys to hold upright . |
| 9 | He rang the hospital and told them to stop that man sending letters . |
| 10 | He noticed she needed two hands to lift the silver pot . |
| 11 | The attorney agreed with Haydon about the injustice of the proceedings , and told him to return that evening to settle the matter finally . |
| 12 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 13 | And then the solicitor asked us to advised us to have certain things amended and Mr had no problem when I told him over the telephone , he just said send it back and we 'll just amend it . |
| 14 | Now did you draw I asked you to draw some graphs did n't I . |
| 15 | the empire we allowed them to have British passports did n't we ? |
| 16 | To break this cycle we asked the women to aim at eating three meals each day and encouraged them to take small steps to reach this goal . |
| 17 | The hospital confirmed he spent 40 minutes having his injuries examined . |
| 18 | He reckoned he had enough time to see Maidstone , then get down to the pensione and change before making his way back up to the Vomero again . |
| 19 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 20 | She made one last feeble attempt to avoid the escalation of physical craving between them , knowing she had lost when she heard the unusual huskiness of her own voice , and saw Rune 's eyes darken in immediate response . |
| 21 | A couple of weeks after the arrests , a lawyer in the Belfast office of the Treasury Solicitor was drawing up charges on the basis of the presence of the pistol when a senior police official ordered him to prepare fresh indictments charging them with murdering three specified Roman Catholics . |
| 22 | In the 1920s their financial position improved and , despite the reductions of income in the 1930s , the cheap money policy which followed the abandonment of the gold standard and the move to protection , permitted them to obtain cheap mortgages to buy the thousands of three-bedroomed semi-detached houses which were being built in the South and the Midlands at between £400 and £450 . |
| 23 | He also urged them to remember Tory supporters living overseas at the next election . |
| 24 | When Mr James Baker , the American Secretary of State , met opposition leaders in Tashkent in February , Mr Pulatov urged him to establish diplomatic relations to enable the United States to monitor human rights and give democracy a foothold . |
| 25 | She watched him raise one hand to rub the nape of his neck , then flex his shoulder muscles . |
| 26 | The spokesman said a number of mortar bombs had been found in the area in the past and he urged anyone finding similar items to contact the police immediately . |
| 27 | The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure . |
| 28 | Sky TV yesterday announced they have exclusive rights to show his championship challenge and , if successful , his first defence . |
| 29 | Next Lilliput asked him to paint three pictures based on London 's river for reproduction in the July 1947 issue of the magazine . |
| 30 | But what a delight it was to come across your adventure , particularly so as Sept saw me doing 6 days canoeing the Zam with Shearwater , rafting Vic Falls 4–19 and a flip at 18 , and I spent 2 days at Kariba lake on a houseboat . |