Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually she got through cutting it up by fantasizing that she was Christian Barnard saving the life of Francis Bacon or Lucian Freud . |
| 2 | And that was what he got for testing her , Guy told himself disgustedly . |
| 3 | We often fantasised about murdering him , too — as painfully as possible . |
| 4 | Oh he 's terrible there , he even had them he had young girls working for him up there , and they found out they were paying he was paying them too little and then he got caught up with 'em , and erm what he done after he charged for taking them up there in the morning and charged 'em for taking them down in the evening with a Land Rover . |
| 5 | And she was subjected to the same technique Courtney used to ensnare women he assaulted after offering them drugged wine . |
| 6 | He says Tutilo killed the man he tricked into helping him to steal away your saint . |
| 7 | in effect what you 're doing is helping us out with the cost that we incurred in getting it and the help that we 've done you . |
| 8 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 9 | A hated general sales tax also contributed to making him one of Canada 's most unpopular leaders ever . |
| 10 | Telephone Management Systems customer care director Anne Nunn also speaks for many suppliers when she talks about the imbalance between the knowledge required of hotel staff and the time devoted to training them . |
| 11 | Do you know the reason , the reason Maud phoned to told me it was the most hateful place |
| 12 | She had not , Franca found on opening it , ventured to hang anything inside the long wardrobe which stretched the length of the big bedroom . |
| 13 | Ockleton paused to consider a point that had apparently baffled him , then said : ‘ If Miss Mallender never referred to visiting me , Mr |
| 14 | He concentrated on training me to become an Olympic athlete . |
| 15 | The party set off downstream along the river bank and Rostov concentrated on making it look as if he had been riding bareback all his life . |
| 16 | Ha ! " he exclaimed on seeing us . |
| 17 | Some wry amusement at the choice of weapon could also be extracted from the folio Bible with which , according to Anthony Trollope in his Autobiography , his father used to fell him whenever he had been idle . |
| 18 | You turned round and said , do it in that one , so I 'm doing it in that one , then you changed to doing it in that one . |
| 19 | Was Isambard bent on winning him by kindness now ? |
| 20 | Very great odium T. Poole incurred by bringing me here … when Wordsworth came & he likewise by T. Poole 's agency settled here — You can not conceive the tumult , calumnies , & apparatus of threatened persecutions which this event has occasioned round about us . |
| 21 | Dem beat him , tried fe mek him still |
| 22 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 23 | Schumpeter drastically narrowed the conception of democracy he used by defining it as " a political method … for arriving at political — legislative and administrative — decisions " , and therefore , he said , " incapable of being an end in itself " . |
| 24 | There is a danger that a freelance programmer will try to hold his client to ransom if he later realizes that the value of the software he has produced is out of all proportion to the payment he received for writing it . |
| 25 | Your written instructions should go either to the travel agent you booked with asking him to notify us immediately , or , if you booked direct , to the Horizon Holidays office . |
| 26 | He ca he came with the he came with excuse me he he came with a rector |
| 27 | A man walked in and he says hello to John and that and how 's it going and that , he came into see you and I sat , I mean I came in |
| 28 | She believed in building them up . |
| 29 | " She wanted to do it , she was one of the type who believed in doing it because she wanted to . |
| 30 | Patrick began by blunt cutting the ends then , after blow-drying , he pulled the hair into a high ponytail which he lightly backcombed before splaying it out on the top of the head . |