Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My contact with the family had lapsed for a while when the head asked to see me to request help in explaining the Statementing procedures to Mrs Singh . |
| 2 | He had heard of me from some of his colleagues and asked to see me to discuss the Labour Party 's decision in relation to the litigation it had brought , with my guidance , against the Manchester Guardian as a result of the leaks from the National Executive . |
| 3 | Herr Schikenader , the former proprietor , chanced to see me perform one evening . |
| 4 | It was almost certainly acquired by George III who had it bound in the present red morocco , gilt tooled binding which has been reproduced for the facsimile . |
| 5 | By setting this film against a backdrop of the London Underground , Christine Halsall and Steven Sprung made us feel inextricably woven into this madness . |
| 6 | Goodness there 's a great sort of burden off is n't it all this sort of shopping er you got to go we finished all the shop and that 's it . |
| 7 | She expected to see him gazing at Comfort with the admiration she deserved , but in fact he was looking down at Julia . |
| 8 | And Alfred P Sloan , who pioneered decentralization at General Motors in the early 1920s , lived to see it become international corporate practice by the time he published his best-selling memoirs in 1964 . |
| 9 | He saw this diving towards Filfla trailing clouds of black and white smoke , but was then chased by another Messerschmitt and failed to see what happened to it . |
| 10 | In making his diplomatic push , Mr Bush agreed to continue US support for Unita , which has been receiving a covert aid programme of between $40-$50m ( £25-£30m ) a year . |
| 11 | Hence an important tool of management whose common usefulness could be judged by the essential partners to collaboration failed to provide what had appeared to be promised — and one says " appeared " because it may have been the wish of some college managers not to allow information by which their efficiency might be judged to become available to other parties . |
| 12 | It could be quite disconcerting for the archer whose bow disintegrated to find himself left with a handful of bits and pieces resembling a bundle of firewood . |
| 13 | Revolutionary this certainly was in concept , for it sought to displace what came to be called Capitalism by industrial collectivism , to secure that industry should be run by the workpeople for the workpeople , and through the agency of trade unionism . |
| 14 | An ambulance was called but efforts made to revive her proved unsuccessful . |
| 15 | ‘ After I became involved we came up with denim products , which had great success for ladies ’ fashions . |
| 16 | Over the summer , the Secretary of State and I met to encourage them to adopt best practices in dealings with their tenants . |
| 17 | But he was under a cloud anyway after his men failed to find who had placed a bomb in the office of Major-General Seri Temiyaveh , the head of the Bangkok police department 's crime-suppression division . |
| 18 | Police and ambulancemen who rushed to Birmingham 's New Street station expected to find she had been killed . |
| 19 | Richard Hollins Murray patented the glass lens in 1923 and the profits he made helped him to buy Dinmore Manor four years later . |
| 20 | Bratby was intrigued by Minton and soon after he got to know him painted a huge picture on paper , entitled ‘ Homage to John Minton ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ How Mr Chapman got to know what had happened in 12 hours is a mystery to some people , for he was in Huddersfield when the Liverpool deputation had bade goodnight to their hosts from Aberdeen . |
| 22 | The dogs were surprised when I disturbed them in the middle of the night and they chased in their runs when I left again , strained to see me departing through the rain , and hear the car door opening , their bowls clanking as I threw them inside . |
| 23 | When they , when they stopped using them do you think anybody kept them as |
| 24 | According to David Trippier , the British Enviroment Minister , if developing countries increased their per capita use of ozone depleting chemicals to just one tenth of the 1986 consumption rate in industrialised economies , and used them indefinitely : ‘ Then we would never return to the levels needed for us to get rid of ozone holes , even if the rest of the world stopped using them althogether . ’ |
| 25 | She felt as though she were suffocating in the heat , as though it were stopping her nostrils , sealing her mouth , and when she tried to breathe it forced itself down into her stomach and made her heave . |
| 26 | Rain felt distinctly uncharitable as she straightened the bed and tried to pretend they had never been there . |
| 27 | Attracted to the big ape she had n't been , but she 'd be an all-out liar if she tried to pretend she had n't enjoyed his kisses . |
| 28 | She tried to pretend she did n't know what he meant , but his bantering tone had been deceptive . |
| 29 | I 'd be a liar if I tried to pretend I knew the answer to that one . |
| 30 | They say its legally theirs , but the woman who tried to kill them claims she 's the owner . |