Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because her social isolation was made worse by her inability to drive she agreed , before the next session , to take the therapist 's advice to arrange driving lessons . |
| 2 | The Archdeacon realised he had been carried away , cleared his throat and gulped the last of the sherry . |
| 3 | Like the system of militia service it pressed heavily upon the poorer sections of the groups it affected and fell comparatively lightly on the middle classes of the French seaports . |
| 4 | With the decision made she felt a kind of temporary peace . |
| 5 | Reminding her that she would still be in full control at all times , I asked her whether it was not worth trying the technique to see what happened . |
| 6 | The other major discovery that Magnus made he called the ‘ righting reflex ’ . |
| 7 | They refused to leave on request and attempts to eject them failed on account of the sudden arrival of reinforcements from the local station . |
| 8 | Catlin 's display was the base for County 's first League win of the season and Warnock admitted he took a risk when dropping experienced keeper Steve Cherry , Meadow Lane 's player of the year . |
| 9 | The first problem was to work out the correct overall send and return levels , but with the Quad-FX 's input and master volume set on unity gain I found the processors worked at roughly the same settings anyway , so there was n't much need to tweak the levels . |
| 10 | CHART stars Pop Will Eat Itself blew up when a mix-up stopped them appearing in Sweden . |
| 11 | Then , make sure Stevie ate his bread , watch Gary to see he did n't pinch the beans off Jenny 's plate , talk to Patrick to see he did n't fall asleep again and keep an eye out for fights , punches , kicks under the table and flying crusts . |
| 12 | Houses to accommodate them rose as a compact group south of the churchyard , and the church itself was soon ambitiously transformed to provide the setting for an elaborate cycle of daily worship . |
| 13 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 14 | As the riders passed they called out : high-pitched cries which startled the birds that nested in the tree-tops . |
| 15 | There was a profit of $2.1m in the Homeowners account which compared with a loss in the same period last year of $8.3m . |
| 16 | Edouard admitted he 'd been attacked but denied it was anything to do with Barbara being there . ’ |
| 17 | These included raising the age of consent to eighteen , abolishing the notorious ‘ escape clause ’ ( allowing male defendants in assault cases to claim they believed the girl to be over sixteen ) , extending the time limit for prosecutions and criminalizing incest and male importuning . |
| 18 | Then , make sure Stevie ate his bread , watch Gary to see he did n't pinch the beans off Jenny 's plate , talk to Patrick to see he did n't fall asleep again and keep an eye out for fights , punches , kicks under the table and flying crusts . |
| 19 | But Richard Walker had other ideas , with just two minutes to go he coughed up . |
| 20 | With only one hour and 30 minutes to go I squirted out a cheap-looking burning skull design , slapped on a logo and sent the damn thing off with only minutes to spare . |
| 21 | It was with a little fillip of surprise that Pascoe realized she had n't recognized his voice . |
| 22 | Pascoe realized he 'd spoken in a whisper . |
| 23 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 24 | ‘ Your sister thinks you did . ’ |
| 25 | The board revealed it had established a sub-committee ‘ to progress the recruitment of a group chief executive from outside the Barclays Group ’ . |
| 26 | People were using any of a large range of software products to perform what appeared to be the same basic tasks . |
| 27 | Casabona admitted he forced a woman lodger in the house to go to a bedroom where he tied her up with adhesive tape . |
| 28 | About this time , JWT announced they wanted four more ads , and another three more after that . |
| 29 | As it happened , the Great War intervened and provided the Conservatives with an opportunity to confirm what had been an uncertain trend towards a reshaping and consolidation of the right . |
| 30 | I must confess I was as curious as they were so I kept an eye on the cottage to see who came . |