Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , the marshal asked to see you as soon as you recovered . |
| 2 | She hesitated a moment and then said , " Matthew asked to see you as soon as you arrived . |
| 3 | ‘ Matilda planned to kill you and send a message back to the Queen pinned to your body . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ She 'll grow up with rickets like the rest of 'em , ’ she said , rubbing Patrick 's thin legs which failed to support him when he attempted to pull himself up against his father 's chair . |
| 5 | Smith agreed to see me and so I flew to Salisbury , arriving on a Wednesday . |
| 6 | Rolle is said to have fled to the nearby village of Pickering , where the squire John de Dalton was impressed by the strangely-clad hermit and agreed to support him and give him an anchorage to live in . |
| 7 | " I asked her if she expected to see him when he got back , and she said , " To be perfectly frank , I do n't know . |
| 8 | Way I hear it , nobody got to see her while they stayed there . |
| 9 | But neither of them saw Captain Meredith coming from the opposite direction on his way to visit Lawyer Loveitt , and he failed to see them as he crossed into Frog Lane seconds after they had left it . |
| 10 | It was quite away from the area I 'd been brought up in , but I got to like it and make friends , and I got more independent . |
| 11 | A year or so later I chanced to meet him and he acknowledged that this was just criticism , but that he had been obliged to insert these names so that his book would look like a truly up-to-date , intouch work of scholarship . |
| 12 | We have found in the past that visitors have been most appreciative of the efforts made to inform them and have also been most complimentary on what they have seen . |
| 13 | Firemen who arrived at the house in Bath , Avon , after answering the hoax failed to revive him and he died in hospital . |
| 14 | Ms Alexander , calling on Mrs Bottomley to meet a delegation of parents , said : ‘ Although it was Beverly Allitt who committed these crimes , my concern is that the hospital management failed to spot her character defects , failed to supervise her and failed to act on numerous clues , and delayed inexcusably before calling in the police . |
| 15 | A search involving four lifeboats , an RAF and a police helicopter failed to find him and has been called off , police said . |
| 16 | His mother asked to meet us and when she did , she held him and wept . |
| 17 | I 'ad to meet 'im after I 'd 'ad me look around . |
| 18 | I 've been meaning to talk to you , but you 've ducked out of the building so fast after finishing your show these last two days , ’ she told him when he stopped to greet her and ask if she had heard the brilliant spontaneous earthquake joke he 'd cracked on air that morning . |
| 19 | who tried to trip him as we passed — but how |
| 20 | Her last hours were disturbed by ‘ strong delirium ’ ; but her younger sister , who helped to nurse her and afterwards wrote an account of her death , insisted that ‘ the medicine given to her contained no opium . ’ |
| 21 | They tried to kill her and her Cabinet , and nearly succeeded , when they blew up the Grand Hotel , Brighton , during the 1984 Conservative Party conference . |
| 22 | He tried to kill you and that makes it look very much as though he 's the person who killed Sabine Jourdain . ’ |
| 23 | The president rose to greet him and asked , " Alors ? " |
| 24 | Owen rose to greet him and they embraced like long-lost brothers . |
| 25 | We rose to greet her and then settled back into place like so many fluttering pigeons . |
| 26 | We rose to greet her and her companions with delighted cries of welcome , mingled with congratulations for her walk . |
| 27 | We 've tried all sorts of things erm and we 've erm sort of erm included erm Lesley 's Elmore Support Team has come and talked to him and tried to support him as well , so over the years we have done all sorts of things to try and support him , as I have to try and support all sorts of people . |
| 28 | Some woman tried to poach her but she seems to have got clear of that on her own . |
| 29 | Erm we have n't got anybody here with a beard so we ca n't demonstrate and anyway it would be a dangerous experiment if we did , but supposing you tried to strangle me and I 've got a big beard you know , a kind of Karl Marx style beard well a big beard , er you get your hands round my neck and what can I do ? |
| 30 | ‘ One man got in and tried to strangle him but I pulled him off , ’ he said . |