Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , said he , ‘ Would the comrade who interrupted me please stand up ! ’ |
| 2 | And expected everyone else to do the same . |
| 3 | A deep , shockingly familiar voice made them both turn and look towards the door . |
| 4 | The truth , more probably , is that he laid them aside to take on commissions for which he would be paid : at this stage in his life he could not afford to compose for sheer pleasure . ) |
| 5 | Thus in Ibrams ( 1982 ) there had been considerable ill-treatment and violence by the deceased towards D and his girlfriend , and this led them eventually to plan and carry out a night-time raid on the deceased 's flat , during which they attacked and killed him . |
| 6 | Increasing dissatisfaction among both teachers and students led them frequently to ask the question , ‘ Why study at all ? ’ , with some justification . |
| 7 | say anything about you like it 's only if I got nothing else to say really |
| 8 | We got nothing else to do . ’ |
| 9 | I got nothing else to do , and at least we 'll be able to feel we 're trying . ’ |
| 10 | So I did n't know anything about it you know , till somebody asked me Well asked me really , Mr 's going away is n't he ? |
| 11 | Seconds later , he asked me urgently to bring over a large roll of cotton-wool . |
| 12 | ‘ Yer muvver asked me ter come round an' tell yer . |
| 13 | He got me so riled I lost a race this afternoon I should have won . |
| 14 | Her mouth tight , she hurried into the cottage and slammed the door , but that one brief glance had been more than enough for her to take in the fact that he 'd removed his shirt as though quite impervious to the chill wind that made everyone else shiver , and was digging over the colonel 's vegetable patch with an economy of movement that she might have admired if it had been anyone else but him . |
| 15 | ‘ It actually , ’ said Emma , raising a hand to her face and brushing it across her eyes , ‘ made me rather weep , listening to her . |
| 16 | At this time still a regular smoker , I made one film which made me drastically change my views about it . |
| 17 | That made me just want revenge . |
| 18 | You felt my star-sign made me somehow to blame |
| 19 | What made me finally decide to insist on this was when I realized that had you been a man , Miranda , or had I not been personally involved with you , I would n't have hesitated to ask for these shares . ’ |
| 20 | That episode made me quickly learn how to repair a puncture and from that time on I always carried a repair outfit . |
| 21 | It made me suddenly realise how much they had changed . |
| 22 | One such example is : ( 189 ) … the cry which made me suddenly to re-enter the dimension of distinctness . |
| 23 | So it looks awfully fresh the wretches made me almost squashed it . |
| 24 | You wired them together to make a kind of pyramid . |
| 25 | That experience angered and frustrated me sufficiently to consider coming to this place to try to change the evil which the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was letting loose on decent families in decent communities . |
| 26 | We got no-one here called that … |
| 27 | Erm , thank goodness for er modern technology I got them please do n't , do n't all fax them up to the department , er these faxes are very hard to read |
| 28 | I realized I just had to accept him for what he was , and when I learnt to do that , he did the same to me - accepted me without question , in all my imperfection , in all that made me unworthy of him . |
| 29 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |
| 30 | If Joseph wanted Sabine Jourdain dead , as Barbara Coleman says , then he probably got someone else to do it . |