Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know , but on the night she died the Lady Prioress asked me to help take the corpse back to her own chamber . |
| 3 | For a moment , Trish 's laughter made me regret leaving the chummy , easy-going atmosphere of Winston Street . |
| 4 | Eh , yeah regular army pay , great that 's really what made me decide to join the army , that was in the T A but I regulars . |
| 5 | We argued about it but in the end he agreed I had to tell the Josephs . |
| 6 | After the monologues were over , Bryan Izzard prodded me to start writing the show for myself . |
| 7 | I mean , we 've , I 've , there was a situation these are the roads he 's taking me around now , he had me reverse round the corner which was practically blind , could n't see what was round the corner , so I was edging round , and it was on a hill so I had to do it , every time I stopped I had to put the handbrake on so I did n't roll |
| 8 | It was the day of parcel issues and as lunch time approached I tried to forget the future in the pleasure of the present . |
| 9 | Having restored stability I quickly got above the cloud , found I had lost the Pole Star and somehow , like a tank commander , turned through 150° by not very gentle use of the outer engines . |
| 10 | ‘ When I got back I found I had left the garden door a little ajar ; she must have taken a chill . |
| 11 | I still found I had to keep the Contour and Treble rotaries backed completely off , and the Bass right up to get anything like a ‘ normal ’ lead guitar sound . |
| 12 | When the tone stopped you had reached the end of the line — and that indicated the ferret 's position . |
| 13 | It will need new valley gutters and we found we had to replace the roof structure ( something we originally thought was not needed ) . |
| 14 | His scam was discovered when a club manager rang the boy 's company Sky As A Kite and found he had dialled the head of sixth form at the prestigious Leeds Grammar School , West Yorks . |
| 15 | ‘ Steve ! ’ she cried in amazement as he let himself into the apartment , grinning all over his silly face as if he 'd just popped out for a paper that morning and found he 'd won the state lottery . |
| 16 | After introducing it to an 18″ x 12″ aquarium I soon found it had re-arranged the substrate to form a small barricade at the front of the tank . |
| 17 | After much thought and careful study I believed I had found the answer . |
| 18 | I guess at that point DEA assumed I had jumped the reservation and was feeding information to Pan Am . |
| 19 | No matter what Louise might think of her tactics in dealing with this crisis she believed she had handled the situation in the best way possible . |
| 20 | well we had in the bank , we had calor gas lamps and when the power cut came we had to have the calor gas lamps on , and er , at night you 'd get home and you knew what area was going off at what time and you used to have to rush round , I remember once , it was going off about six and it went off early , it went off about five instead , and I 'd started cooking the tea , luckily got a gas cooker and this was at Abbott Road , it started |
| 21 | Perkin with brotherly bossiness told him to stop kicking the table leg and Gareth uncharacteristically sulked . |
| 22 | Cornford 's individualism caused him to refuse to join the Officer Training Corps . |
| 23 | Those who initiate racialist talk ( without referring to a racist ideology ) may be a minority too , but since they are rarely contradicted or opposed they tend to shape the norms of the group . |
| 24 | Patterson was one of the last out , but it seemed he 'd got the message about his visitor as he hurried towards his office without a sideways glance . |
| 25 | Cleo noticed he had left the circle incomplete ; she knew he expected her to join him within its protection before he sealed it . |
| 26 | Until Rose came he had reached the stage of not wanting to go out . |
| 27 | She assumed he had chosen the place , the Café Unic , arbitrarily . |
| 28 | I could n't help remembering : the second time we met she had asked the party at large , ‘ Are there any twin comets ? , |
| 29 | Eva admits she " may have been a bit impetuous in those early days " , but she was always willing to learn , and apologise when she realised she had overstepped the mark . |
| 30 | ‘ Good day , m'Lady , ’ called more than one villager , so that Davis realised she had won the hearts of these people . |