Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Made them envy the lucky swells who would be escorting her to nightclubs and restaurants , but also gave them a sense that she was n't stuck up , that she was a genuine person . |
| 2 | The combination of the sophisticated impresario with his driving ambition and the outspoken Newcastle woman with her earthy language and manner to match , made them appear a strange couple . |
| 3 | Until the Annan Committee knocked BBC and ITV heads together and made them run a joint system of audience measurement , ITV relied mainly on counting the number of sets switched on and the BBC used sample surveys and audience ‘ diaries ’ . |
| 4 | Personal experiences made them reject the new truism that the children of fatherless families become delinquent . |
| 5 | But I did wonder , after a year or more , how it was that he and Mme G expected me to use the public baths rather than offer me the convenience of the bathroom in the pavillon . |
| 6 | I think my father 's authority was irrational because he expected me to have no other interests outside my schoolwork . |
| 7 | These attitudes led them to adopt an interventionist style in the management of local authorities that differred in many ways from the more orthodox approaches discussed in Chapter 5 . |
| 8 | It was this that led them to postulate an original state of affairs in which a hypothetical , pre-human , pre-cultural Natural Man was a cow-like creature , without society and without language , living in the wild in a Garden of Eden forest . |
| 9 | It was this that later led them to build an electrochemical cell . |
| 10 | It was then that I knew I could have a fight on my hands : If the manager sided with him and asked me to move a few feet away then I 'd have no choice but to join in the squabble . |
| 11 | I was pleased when he asked me to do the test-flying programme for him and I had no qualms in agreeing , as I knew him to be a meticulous engineer . |
| 12 | I think he was surprised by my reaction , so he asked me to lunch the next day . |
| 13 | When Deutsche Grammophon asked me to record the Alpine Symphony , I warned them that it would be very expensive . |
| 14 | However , I thought it right to debate the report of the Select Committee chaired by my right hon. Friend the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale ( Mr. Jopling ) because many hon. Members of all parties , which was not the case with the other Select Committee report , asked me to find an early opportunity to enable the House to give its initial response to that splendid and important report . |
| 15 | My right hon. Friend the Member for Shoreham ( Sir R. Luce ) asked me to consider the standard spending assessments . |
| 16 | When she started flying her parents asked me to keep a watchful eye on her . |
| 17 | I gave similar advice when Harold Wilson asked me to advise the Labour Party about their behaviour in the matter . |
| 18 | I went into the kitchen as she asked me to have a few words with the ‘ factotum ’ ( 'She seems to be rather taken with your looks ' ) . |
| 19 | ‘ When Terry was coaching Barcelona and I went over to visit him , he asked me to bring a few pounds of good old English pork sausages because he was missing his bangers and mash for tea , ’ he explained . |
| 20 | So I suppose it was frustration that led me to break the cardinal rule of any diplomat behind the Iron Curtain in the good old days . |
| 21 | One officer , a really nice screw , a senior officer called Mrs [ R ] , understood why I wanted to be moved off the pregnant house and got me moved the next day . |
| 22 | My heart was beating in my throat making it hard to swallow , my nose was running , my hands were cold and I could n't get enough oxygen , which made me yawn every few seconds . |
| 23 | He was terrific and made me realise the only reason I had these thoughts was because of the enormous love I have for you . |
| 24 | ‘ She made me walk straight and tall again , made me feel a complete man with her excellently designed footwear , ’ he had boomed . |
| 25 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |
| 26 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 27 | It made me take a good look at what I really wanted out of men and dating . |
| 28 | ‘ They made me look a risky proposition until Terry Butcher gave me a chance at Coventry . |
| 29 | Something made me snatch the woolly choirboy from its metal gallows ( even at that moment I noticed its surprising weight ) . |
| 30 | It was that that made me see the other side of him . |