Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked me to go there for an interview , and from that they recommended a therapist who would see me at her home . |
| 2 | She asked me to join in like a kind of guinea pig and keep a weekly budget . |
| 3 | ‘ Michael asked me to come up with a funny line for him to say on leaving the house , ’ recalled scriptwriter Raymond Allen . |
| 4 | Then , to me : ‘ We went to Orkney last summer , and she made me crawl in through a ghastly tunnel into some underground charnel-house . |
| 5 | In their early twenties they had a group called the Actors and RCA records asked them to come in for a meeting . |
| 6 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 7 | When he moved she jumped back like a startled rabbit . |
| 8 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 9 | Nell helped him to lie down on a blanket , supporting his head with another . |
| 10 | As she let her breath out on a long sigh Hilary moved reluctantly away . |
| 11 | She let her breath out in a hissing rush . |
| 12 | Polly let her breath out in a whoosh of relief , looking down to check how far she still had to go . |
| 13 | Only he knew what an effort it cost him to climb down from a helideck onto a drilling rig . |
| 14 | When they were about twenty yards from the house , Jackie signalled them to crouch down behind a large bush covered in strange waxen blooms , like roses , only they were n't . |
| 15 | He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details . |
| 16 | She had a neat , methodical mind and it pleased her to hunt around for an odd half-hour or so to fill with planting lettuces or doing the mending . |
| 17 | Ace opened the door just wide enough for the pair to enter , and slammed it shut just as a brick arced over from the darkened bushes . |
| 18 | She had always had a vague idea that psychotherapists made you lie down on a couch and waffle on about your problems until finally , in some miraculous way , they were no longer problems , just a pain that had been gradually eased away . |
| 19 | They did not share the critics ' dismay that bumptious Mr Spielberg should have borrowed that nice Mr Barrie 's little boy , allowed him to grow up as an awful Dad , and then sent him back to learn a few lessons in Captain Hook 's theme-park paradise . |
| 20 | The first Guess ? shots by model-turned-photographer Ellen von Unwerth showed her squeezing out of a black lace bustier , looking seductively over her shoulder . |
| 21 | And erm and then we went and got my fruit and veg and then we went in Top Marks and got them so we never got we went through for a video really , never got round to looking for a video did we ? |
| 22 | Much relieved I handed over without a word . |
| 23 | Yet witnesses to the latter part of the night 's events heard him talking clearly to a policeman . |
| 24 | The other day I heard her come out with a bloody . |
| 25 | When he finished he went home for a rest . |
| 26 | Nathan watched him step on to a crate . |
| 27 | She watched him working out on an exercise bike and said : ‘ There 's nothing wrong with slim people . ’ |
| 28 | He affected a limp because one leg was ‘ full of shrapnel ’ ( he broke it falling downstairs during a party ) . |
| 29 | Wycliffe saw a gull which seemed to be standing on the water but as he watched it took off with a derisive squawk and he caught sight of the lattice framework of the Wheel lifting to the swell . |
| 30 | When these things did n't work , he got her fixed up with a particularly incompetent agent who had ruined some of his friends ' contracts through laziness . |