Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to wait for what seemed like hours . |
| 2 | They were all over the place , trying to lean on you , trying to make out that they cared about what happened to you . |
| 3 | They were all over the place , trying to lean on you , trying to make out that they cared about what happened to you . |
| 4 | In 1980 she stopped attending board meetings , which she considered a pantomime ; those things which she really cared about she managed to achieve quietly away from the meeting , in discussions with Phil Morris or Deborah James . |
| 5 | The red light on the phone console stopped flashing as whoever sought his attention tired of waiting . |
| 6 | By the time Penry Vaughan came downstairs again she was deep in the adventures of a lady who had decided to dress as a boy to search for her lost crusading husband . |
| 7 | In the same way , they took care to spend no more time together than the daily round of school life made appropriate , but the simple knowledge that there was now one person in the small , enclosed community who cared for him healed Richard 's wounded spirit . |
| 8 | Constance felt a pang of sadness as she walked into the building on Ludovico 's arm , thinking that no one in the world who cared for them knew what was happening . |
| 9 | Fortunately for Mr Packwood 's furniture , Caspar was a good deal less boisterous than the two young Persian leopards he recently cared for who wrecked two of his settees for his trouble . |
| 10 | I lay for what seemed hours on the bed , sustained only by cups of tea brought by an auxiliary nurse . |
| 11 | I asked for them did n't I ? |
| 12 | We passed through what had been the city centre but now the main street was a narrow , bumpy lane and the sides piled up with rubble . |
| 13 | The look that passed between them showed a certain amount of respect but a little mistrust as well . |
| 14 | The patter that passed between them spoke of an easy familiarity , and was so fast and allusive that I could hardly follow it . |
| 15 | Before you get to see the demo , you have to flick through some text pages containing interesting pieces about the ‘ incident ’ , making you think about what happened . |
| 16 | So what I do is try and think about everybody involved . |
| 17 | I said I 'll think about it did n't I ? |
| 18 | Wounded during the robbery , Roth ( Mr Orange ) actually spends most of the movie slowly bleeding to death , while Harvey Keitel ( the sentimental old-time thief Mr White ) , Steve Buscemi ( the motormouth obsessive Mr Pink ) and Michael Madsen ( the quietly psychopathic Mr Blonde ) bicker and brawl about who sold them out . |
| 19 | The car skidded for what seemed like an eternity and the lady driver coming the other way did her best to stop , but we collided head on . |
| 20 | None of the Glaswegians regretted making the trip , but a few grumbled about what seemed a ludicrously early chucking-out time . |
| 21 | What change of circumstances had come about which made them take an entirely different view ? |
| 22 | His press , when anyone bothered to write about him became almost uniformly hostile . |
| 23 | Malan ignored calls in Parliament for his resignation from both the Democratic Party ( DP ) and the CP — the latter on the grounds that right-wing organizations had been blamed for what had in reality been the activities of the CCB . |
| 24 | Framed her own mind in Adam 's will and learnt to sit patiently and wait for whatever happened next . |
| 25 | It also looks for what Bensted called ‘ the unknown x-factor ’ which makes the placement work . |
| 26 | Someone filled and lit a chillim and everyone gathered round to smoke it , exchanging , now and then , laconic comments about the boar 's escape , musing about what had happened and how different everything could have been if only luck was with them . |
| 27 | John Kelsey-Fry , counsel for Marsh , said his client was the first of the two men to volunteer to be interviewed about what had happened to the missing money . |
| 28 | The psychological insights which he might once have applied were no longer applicable ; thus , like most people , like all of us would in a similar circumstance , the degree to which he could realistically perceive what was going on within his body and what was becoming of him came and went . |
| 29 | The man who was walking towards them stepped into the light of a streetlamp . |
| 30 | And he knew immediately that the two men walking towards him did n't belong , were wrong . |