Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-four black militant organisations were subjected to ‘ tax surveillance ’ as part of International Revenue Service ( IRS ) harassment , and FBI agents placed bogus documents into the hands of Panther members which led them to suspect each other of being police informants ( McAdam and Moore , 1989:281 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 3 | ‘ He asked me to take good care of them . |
| 4 | Dad kissed me on the forehead and asked me to make another pot of tea and he sat down in his chair and smoked a quiet pipe of tobacco looking happier than he had for days . |
| 5 | ‘ Details , of course , will take time and come later , but that 's my general philosophy ; that 's what you would get if you asked me to complete this job for you . ’ |
| 6 | And she gave me an indulgent look and she said , ‘ I 'm really sorry , the pictures made me feel tender feelings for you , but they just really did not arouse me . ’ |
| 7 | They 'd got ta be secure as you could imagine and er not easily picked , if you follow what I mean and er yes , made I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 8 | It also stated that ‘ 90 per cent of the respondents indicated that their experience in the programme had helped them to see more clearly the forces at work in their lives and had in fact helped them to take more control over their lives ’ . |
| 9 | It helped me do all sorts of things I would n't have done otherwise . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Allen Abramson , a London University anthropologist who has studied initiation rituals , said that most societies used them to mark important developments in a person 's life , and that they often involved pain or privation . |
| 11 | We 'd been warned to bring thick clothing but now found ourselves stuffing woolly hats into pockets and loosening scarves . |
| 12 | When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’ |
| 13 | morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece . |
| 14 | Whipping round , he found himself facing four figures in black military style combat gear and carrying guns and flashlights . |
| 15 | After five years as Chancellor of the Exchequer , and after the lost election of 1979 , he says he found himself wearing this Shirt of Nessus . |
| 16 | October is the cocktail month in Washington ; the British embassy can be throwing three parties a week , and with the Liaison Office 's yen to keep Maxim busy , he inevitably found himself sipping deep-frozen Scotch with a wing-commander from the Office . |
| 17 | He found himself making imploring promises to God then retreated into hating himself and Maxim of course . |
| 18 | Would n't you agree it 's just about time that somebody helped you to restore some kind of order into your life ? " |
| 19 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 20 | In the later pharaonic centuries Egypt found itself sacked several times by Libyans , Ethiopians , Persians and Assyrians , before being conquered by the Greeks under Alexander in 332 BC . |
| 21 | He let you run this place like a fucking doll 's house 'cause he loved you . |
| 22 | When at last she lifted her head , she found herself facing three pairs of curious , slightly embarrassed eyes . |
| 23 | But it slowed her up considerably , and as time passed she found herself casting furtive glances over her shoulder . |
| 24 | In my study , a white mother , previously married to a full-time skilled manual worker and now living on benefits , described her changed economic circumstances like this : |
| 25 | Eminent Victorians and gardeners who visited her by now famous Munstead Wood home found her wearing two pairs of spectacles . |
| 26 | He gave her specialist child custody advice and helped her win legal aid for her court battle . |
| 27 | Now , for the first time , they found they needed large numbers of new people , with new skills , and they needed them quickly . |
| 28 | Carter and Cureton 's entries on " style " seemed to match the first brief and I found they complemented each other in interesting ways . |
| 29 | Roy Fredericks 's second century helped him pass 500 runs for the series , although Richards and Greenidge still finished above him in the aggregates and averages . |
| 30 | Afterwards they went shopping together and she helped him choose some shoes for his wife . |