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Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst .
2	" I hear that Miss Potts asked to see you about next year 's work , " said Miss Haines .
3	When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families .
4	point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure .
5	When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid .
6	Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground .
7	I used to talk to her and when I found out she was murdered it was a shock , because you expected to see her in here
8	‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’
9	First , top scorer Dalien Atkinson missed the starting line-up after revolutionary oxygen chamber treatment failed to heal him in time to face his old club .
10	Each soul he devoured lanced him with anguish , torment .
11	I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face .
12	He failed to provide me with information which I had requested . ’
13	In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s .
14	After work the same evening , my husband and I walked all over the golf course and were eventually rewarded by spotting the dog in the distance , although we failed to coax her towards us .
15	Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place .
16	Duncan took some persuading — £250 and the scrap option on the VW to be exact — but agreed to meet me at Blackberry Hill with his wrecker truck ( there is n't a vehicle known to man he ca n't get hold of ) in two hours .
17	He finally agreed to meet us for lunch at the Mayflower Hotel , but nothing happened between them .
18	In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … .
19	But he was clearly relieved when I agreed to accept it at his hands .
20	It seemed to be the only real thing in the universe ; the temple , the city , the motorspeeder , all of these were illusions devised to distract her from the important issues , the real business of life .
21	Finally he agreed to provide us with an escort to Aussa .
22	A bit o' glass 'ad caught him on the fore'ead , but otherwise we 'ad n't a scratch to show for it between us .
23	All who have kept wild animals as pets or got to know them in the wild have come to realize that they each have their own personality and manner of expression , within the constraints of that species ’ natural instincts .
24	And I hardly got to know him at all .
25	‘ He tried to unload it on me , ’ said Gareth Holmroyd .
26	The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-30s , refused point blank to be rescued .
27	The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-thirties , refused point blank to be rescued .
28	She tried phoning him with a variety of invitations she felt he would n't refuse , but he always made excuses for not meeting her .
29	She knows people and tried to dazzle me with names .
30	The defendant then made an agreement with the plaintiffs in which ‘ in consideration that the plaintiffs , at the request of the defendant , would deliver to the defendant ’ the cargo of coal , the defendant promised to unload it at a stated rate .