Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , one of them attacked it with a large branch , striking it a damaging blow . |
| 2 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
| 3 | Then , in 1964 he won the Masters again and everyone expected him at St Andrews for the Open Championship . |
| 4 | Erm , if erm , if one of them contradicted me in the class , I burst into tears , I think you 'd think something was seriously wrong with me , would n't you ? |
| 5 | Moreover , although their new jobs were temporary , not all of them regarded them as a " stop-gap " . |
| 6 | They were sighted in China , where those who attempted to eat them reported them to be tasteless or unpleasant . |
| 7 | I recently had some bad news and everyone helped me through it and gave me great support . |
| 8 | On the following Monday some of them pursued him to a review that was taking place on Wimbledon Common , while others went to the City , occupied the Royal Exchange and picketed the coffee houses , carrying placards reading More Wages . |
| 9 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 10 | Theyspoketo them nicely but if I asked them for anything it was as though they could n't be bothered . |
| 11 | Old hands from the music business — usually loquacious if invited to reminisce — were struck by collective amnesia when I asked them about Dury . |
| 12 | Addressing questions to a class of primary school children in a rural school at the time of the Passover , I asked them about places in the Bible where there were sheep . |
| 13 | When I asked them about it they all said : ‘ Oh , you 've had cats all your life , you wo n't get it ’ ’ . |
| 14 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 15 | When I asked them about it later , they said , oh no , we have no intention of doing Anthems of the Nations , perhaps you would like to do it for us . |
| 16 | Cos I asked them about it , and they said I 'd much rather be doing that . |
| 17 | So I asked them in the lodge like do n't do any damage and Tom was in e he gave them a good lecture so and the lads in the lodge said , Well look you tell them as well not to do this attitude and perhaps you 've seen it on these flumes when they saw a crowd that was there they were changing gear with the Land Rover and through you know like anybody in the way you 'd be underneath . |
| 18 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 19 | ‘ Because I asked him about it this morning , when we were both up here , sitting on that bank . |
| 20 | In Oxford , the voice of the gnomic Professor Sammy Finer , a declared political agnostic , rose a full octave when I asked him about it : ‘ It simply is n't true any longer that merit will out . |
| 21 | I asked him about his shamanism . |
| 22 | I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings . |
| 23 | It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here . |
| 24 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
| 25 | I asked him about Heath 's style as Prime Minister : |
| 26 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 27 | I asked him about his communication system with the engineer . |
| 28 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
| 29 | ‘ When I asked him about it he told me : ‘ Leave me alone — I 'm working . ’ |
| 30 | I asked him about the girls and he told me to offer them drinks , talk to them , spend 1,000 francs on them , and I would be away . |