Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When efforts to persuade them to go proved fruitless , the building began to be demolished around their heads . |
| 2 | Well , as no-one 'ad bought any of me violets or treated me to a sandwich , and me near dyin' of starvation , with no job and no lodgings , well , I was so desperate I went up and grabbed the wallet , which Blackbeard was wavin' about at Dan Pearson . |
| 3 | They start again when the time comes , when alliances have shifted , when everyone has stored enough ammunition to have another go , when race hatreds revive under the guise of class wars begin anew as ethnic strife . |
| 4 | ‘ Everyone has done this — why do n't you ! ’ |
| 5 | Everyone has had some disappointment or failure . |
| 6 | There 's been , everyone has had seven cards and that 's not one of them . |
| 7 | Not everyone has shared that view of course , two big questions have caused some to hesitate over Maastricht . |
| 8 | The Tories ' reduction of public borrowing has been excuse me has seen many public services destroyed or disappeared forever . |
| 9 | Nature before me has come this way , |
| 10 | Love and trust still exist , but because the emotional machinery that registers them has gone wrong , we do not feel as we used to . |
| 11 | I have five children and not much money and not one of them has gone wrong and they all treat me with great respect . |
| 12 | Once they dominated the countryside , but intensive farming led to many being ripped up and the sheer cost of maintaining them has seen many fall into neglect . |
| 13 | Ever since the age of 13 I 've been hoping my spots would go away — but constant picking at them has left some scars . ’ |
| 14 | Not one of them has enjoyed internal political loyalty and they have therefore lacked the strength or authority to transact formal negotiations in which controversial concessions might have to be made . |
| 15 | Of course , our bullets arrive at the detector one by one and each of them has traversed one or other slit . |
| 16 | They relate to a brief two-year crisis period in her forty-four year life ; and although they are by no means irrelevant to her political role , the approach to them has had such a predominantly personal — one might almost say tabloid — quality that the historiographical Mary is immediately marked out from all other historical monarchs , Scottish or otherwise . |
| 17 | Our priority all along has been to win the League and nothing has altered that . ’ |
| 18 | This , his last concerto , was the first great concerto for the clarinet , and nothing has come near to matching it among all of the wind concertos written since . |
| 19 | Nothing has happened that is bad . |
| 20 | No-one has enjoyed such popularity over such a wide range of colleagues from the very junior to the very senior . |
| 21 | Of course I heard I 've heard all the arguments about co-opting , but I 'll tell the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh this that who 's going to do the co-opting , those who are already on the police authority |
| 22 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 23 | you see I 've got two subsids now literally the transfer |
| 24 | I said to June I can hardly see I 've got that bad a headache . |
| 25 | I shall go for it mesen tomorrow , you see I 've got five pound in house which |
| 26 | See I 've got this on tape . |
| 27 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 28 | I mean pinched one of for starters , that makes a difference . |
| 29 | For just a minute I got gone deaf . |
| 30 | Well I got given these when I was a rep at when I started , ten years ago and I 've still got half a dozen of these you know . |