Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I asked Grand Met how it justified the rent increases being imposed . |
| 32 | When I asked Grand Met how it could justify the high rent increases , I was told that tenants could easily afford them because tenants would now receive all the proceeds from the amusement machines instead of sharing them with the brewers , although they still have to pay a high licence fee and rent . |
| 33 | I asked professional John Burns what the hazards were at Silloth . |
| 34 | I asked innumerable friends and acquaintances which was their favourite house in England ; almost invariably their choice was built between these dates . |
| 35 | I knew the children were not usually encouraged to guess so I asked one boy directly . |
| 36 | I asked one lecturer " What do you wish me to do now ? " and his answer was " That 's for you to decide . |
| 37 | I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience . |
| 38 | When , a few days later , I asked one morning , " When a hen lays an egg , does it come out of hen 's beak ? " a deathly hush fell over the breakfast table . |
| 39 | I asked one pupil if he ever said Grace . |
| 40 | I asked one evening . |
| 41 | So the reason I asked that question is because I wanted to see if you were already thinking like an archaeologist . |
| 42 | But , you see , I asked that question , the final one , the only one that mattered , a long time after . |
| 43 | I asked that question , it has not been answered . |
| 44 | I asked many Goans if they disliked the freakish visitors , and their verdicts were almost unanimous . |
| 45 | ‘ But there is one thing that does very much interest me , as it happens … and that 's your answer to my question … the one I asked five minutes ago and to which you have so far avoided giving an answer … ’ |
| 46 | More or less what I asked personal point of view that er one is afraid that Europe , as it is , is rather limited . |
| 47 | He looked very doubtful when I asked certain questions and laughed me to scorn when I gave my verdict . |
| 48 | I asked both bodies to get together if they needed further information from British Coal they should secure it . |
| 49 | I asked Brown Owl if we could sell the cakes that were left over and give the money to Blue Peter . |
| 50 | In order to discover whether voice setting and other factors might give hearers clues to a speaker 's ethnicity , I asked 43 East London children aged about 14 to listen to 12 short stretches of speech on tape and fill in a questionnaire . |
| 51 | SO I asked some friends of mine who were in the antique business from , Indiana , pick it up . |
| 52 | After the third call Morris said to Bob , ‘ I asked some people to step round . ’ |
| 53 | To get a more general view of how the Health Service departments treat their Asian women patients , I asked social workers in different parts of London what their experiences had been in dealing with hospitals , Health Visitors and Area Health Authorities . |
| 54 | I asked three teachers where she was and they said she was n't in |
| 55 | It turned out , when I asked another student about her , that she spent most of her time organizing the Drama Society and almost never came into the department . |
| 56 | I asked another teacher , ‘ Well , what do you think ? ’ she said ‘ You were wrong to shout back at her full stop ! |
| 57 | I I know the question about rent was mentioned but , I 'm just talking generally now , I asked this question to another housing association how do you justify rents of sixty pounds and above for accommodation and social housing ? |
| 58 | Erm but I mean i i you know the reason I asked this question is that , if this group said now , Absolutely no way . |
| 59 | Now say for instance that because of the minimum solvency er agreement the employers have got to pay whatever their loss is , and if and I asked this question of the T U C that if there was a situation of where the employees were in the majority and forget the pension regulator , because there was a regulator anyway , so you can add whatever name that y you liked to have , but the fraud still went on , but say the employees were in the majority as far as the trustees is concerned and they were in full control and the control was taken away from the employers and there was a a federation of the hundred and twenty eight thousand with a central fund paying off heavy loss of any minimum solvencies , then surely that would be the ideal situation in order to safeguard , because when I asked Goodey himself when he submitted his report , he said they could not give any categ categorical assurance that nobody could defraud in any scheme under the proposals he 's made . |
| 60 | I asked this housemaster to develop this further . |