Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training . |
2 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
3 | It amused them to dine in some style , formally separating the working day from their evenings together . |
4 | They made me feel of some value again and the warmth was flooding through me long before the kettle had boiled on the iron stove in the corner . |
5 | It made me think of that voodoo thing which hangs round graveyards and wears a top hat . ’ |
6 | The only thing that made me go into any routine was Pam . |
7 | ‘ You made me rise to that bait , did n't you ? ’ |
8 | She seemed so happy and positive and the thing that made me opt for that hospital was when she said , ‘ Childbirth is the woman 's experience , we 're just here to back you up . ’ |
9 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |
10 | I found him reflecting on this problem with his usual shrewdness . |
11 | Not content with Mont Blanc , last year found him searching for another challenge . |
12 | When the music stopped they looked at each other for a long moment , then reluctantly drew apart . |
13 | He waited , out of long experience with dominant characters , until a natural break occurred and used it to ask for some background , starting with how long the Minister had known Miss Morgan . |
14 | Well she stopped us going up that lane in the car , by |
15 | I returned to my men and told them to unload under some fig trees on the steep river bank . |
16 | There followed a silence in which Agnes imagined them glaring at each other . |
17 | And when she woke she turned with such longing to where he had lain and called his name and thought she would do anything for him , anything at all he wanted , because she loved him , she loved him , she loved him . |
18 | All those to , yeah well I told you to put in this morning . |
19 | Told him to look in any time — just to walk in , sit down , take his shoes off , and make himself at home ! |
20 | She thought more about losing the coal to Mrs Phipps than about Granny , it seemed to me then , but I expect it was the shock that caused her to react in that way . |
21 | ‘ What made you decide on this trip ? ’ |
22 | What made you jump at that moment ? |
23 | Now tell me : who asked you to go to this disco ? ’ |
24 | Technological improvements allowed them to capitalize on that wealth in the 1920s . |
25 | As her father had so often complained , to engage with this task was to enter a labyrinth , and it seemed that whichever way she turned she came to this impasse . |
26 | ‘ Who allowed you to sleep in this room ? |
27 | I heard them arguing with each other , and then Detchard said to the Belgian , ‘ Why , Bersonin , are you afraid of one man ? ’ |
28 | He instructed his new ministers , however , to resign their faction memberships , and he ordered them to refrain from all stock market dealings , while also returning one-10th of their salaries to the Treasury , in an effort to regain the political prestige of the Cabinet . |
29 | My definition of harmful treatment would embrace not just treatment that exposed me to risk without any hope of compensating benefit but treatment of unproved efficacy that diverted me from having other treatments that were of proved value . |
30 | In the silence that followed I reached for another scone . |