Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What I asked the right hon. Gentleman — and what he has still not answered — is , would the Government veto a treaty with the word ’ federal ’ in it ? |
| 32 | I asked the right hon. Gentleman to appeal to the Roman Catholic Church to excommunicate the terrorists — the evil gang of murderers , and their supporters and helpers . |
| 33 | I asked the right hon. and learned Gentleman whether he knew that his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition would go to Luigi 's restaurant and say what he said about phasing . |
| 34 | It was a clear night , but the radar was a mass of echoes and I asked the Belgian contact to give me an estimated course and speed of our quarry , and as a result of this we were able to pick it up . |
| 35 | I asked the new director there , John Hutchinson , whether this concerned him . |
| 36 | I asked the Chief Accountant . |
| 37 | I asked the Second Son . |
| 38 | When I asked the self-same question . |
| 39 | I walked in through the door and , feeling a bit lost , I asked the first person I saw if he knew whether the Social Secretary was around . |
| 40 | I put that as an amendment , not reiterating the entire Labour budget , but I asked the Liberal Democrats , who purport to want to erm provide that sort of service to vulnerable people could they not accept that extra half a million pounds as an amendment , and two out of the group abstained , the rest of them voted against that as an amendment . |
| 41 | AT a public election meeting held in St Luke 's Church Hall , Ferryhill , on Sunday , March 29 , I asked the following of the three candidates . |
| 42 | I asked the hon. Member before to bring the matter to my office . |
| 43 | I wanted to introduce Dana to Pernod , so I asked the old man for ‘ dos Pernod ’ . |
| 44 | I asked the old man why |
| 45 | I asked the old man about this client from the North and he remembered her . ’ |
| 46 | I asked the old man , his nose almost level with the steering wheel of his equally elderly car . |
| 47 | I asked the Czech manager if they would be at Rutland Water in June and he said they would not be able to afford it . |
| 48 | I asked the same of Benjamin as we walked out of a postern gate of St Bartholomew 's back towards the river , but my master was only half-listening . |
| 49 | Mummy was coming rather slowly , so I asked the little girl her name . |
| 50 | He goes on : ‘ I asked the whole frame of the world about my God ; and it answered me , ‘ I am not he , but he made me . ’ ’ |
| 51 | mm , I think maybe at the start though when I said do you have a beautiful body , maybe I asked the wrong questions , let me ask you this question at the end , do you like your body ? , er button one for yes and button two for no , and maybe we 'll get a different answer then , eighty five people said no they did n't have a beautiful body , but fifty six people here say yes they like their body , forty four is too many people who do n't , why not ? , who said no ? , why , why do n't you ? , yes |
| 52 | I do n't imagine that he felt any easier immediately I applied the hot blankets , but suggestion is a powerful weapon in the armoury of the doctor , and he did at least manage a smile . |
| 53 | I applied the same methods here , watching people rather than talking to them , and I learnt many new things about the way humans interact . |
| 54 | Following the recent court ruling in Scotland in which a golfer who hit another man with a golf ball was ordered to pay substantial damages , I overheard the following conversation taking place in the clubhouse . |
| 55 | I was off Cley at the time , so I lowered the main and ran for home . |
| 56 | My heart began to flutter as I lowered the heavy pyx into my pouch . |
| 57 | ‘ I avoided the massive guitar solo thing because it never really fitted in the songs and that 's what 's important . |
| 58 | I flung the sporting pistol I had looted on to the back seat , relieved to think I would never have to defend myself with it . |
| 59 | ‘ He took me to the dance , it 's true , ’ said Hyacinth , her temper showing , ‘ but I ditched the ginger swine as soon as I possibly could . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ But nobody appreciates more than me how Ian feels because I endured the same thing at exactly this time last year . |