Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | An ambulance was called but efforts made to revive her proved unsuccessful . |
| 6 | ‘ After I became involved we came up with denim products , which had great success for ladies ’ fashions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Police and ambulancemen who rushed to Birmingham 's New Street station expected to find she had been killed . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Rain felt distinctly uncharitable as she straightened the bed and tried to pretend they had never been there . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She tried to pretend she did n't know what he meant , but his bantering tone had been deceptive . |
| 14 | I 'd be a liar if I tried to pretend I knew the answer to that one . |
| 15 | They tried to see she did n't feel left out but Jean is very shy and sensitive . |
| 16 | She tried to remember she had thought Robert pleasing once . |
| 17 | Unfortunately it was not a very good lute , as the assistant in the music shop to which he tried to sell it pointed out at — unnecessarily — great length . |
| 18 | She had no idea what he meant , and if she tried to answer she knew she 'd only cry . |
| 19 | Competing in the free market of air fares had catapulted Branson into the rarefied area of government policy and international relations , and helped to define what had hitherto been purely instinctive beliefs in a more rigid ideological context . |
| 20 | Harbury gaped to hear she had told the editor . |
| 21 | He tried to deny he 'd been to the village at first , but when I told him I 'd watched his every move he said he 'd gone for toothpaste and avoided our constables because he did n't think they 'd allow him to go out . ’ |
| 22 | Then I tried it Cloister and it was too boring , and then I saw that they had Lanston Cochin at Mackenzie and Harris in San Francisco , so we used that and when we moved to phototype I did n't really go with the whole Jenson thing at all . |
| 23 | When he stopped speaking she said , ‘ What can I do for you , sir , in the way of cigarettes , tobacco ? ’ |
| 24 | When Lili stopped speaking I wished I could ask her to repeat what she had said , but already she was lighting a cigarette and talking about linen . |
| 25 | Wycliffe thanked him and promised to keep him informed . |
| 26 | With a mental shrug she tried to ensure she kept up , knowing that nothing irritated him more than to be kept waiting even a second when he was in this mood . |
| 27 | Conferences and Seminars Designed to keep you informed and to improve the use of Lotus products to solve business problems , these regular events are available at a discount to members . |
| 28 | ‘ After the man involved died we paid a large lump sum to his — ’ |
| 29 | Charlie was so stunned by this suggestion that although he stopped pacing he made no attempt to reply . |
| 30 | The first time she stopped breathing I panicked , but we know how to resuscitate her . ’ |