Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that this made them live longer — average life expectancy was only 38 . |
| 2 | The melodic contour would suffer if we made them all equally prominent , so we have to decide on their relative importance and stress them accordingly . |
| 3 | What made them less than first-rate , yet also made them popular locally , was the touch of theatricality and exaggeration , the desire to impose , which was very foreign indeed to the character of Oswaldston as a town . |
| 4 | I chucked them all off last week . |
| 5 | He rose and led them both down the stone steps , coming to a halt at the entrance to the vestry door . |
| 6 | The recoil flung them both back . |
| 7 | Yeah we divided them all up , but if me or Jan needed to refer to anything we 'd recognize the information that we 've put on the envelopes quicker than we 'll recognize the stuff that he 's put in there |
| 8 | He stuffed them all down his mouth and his nose , all his hankies ? |
| 9 | He eventually shared them all out . |
| 10 | Her mum came down the street steaming from the chip shop , and she rushed us inside and got me to make a pot of tea while she shared them all out between the three of us , and we all sat round their fire eating them . |
| 11 | He made me nervous just looking at him , his two hands pressing each side of my doorframe . |
| 12 | It made me hungover instead . |
| 13 | This therefore will be my last Sunday with you and so I take this opportunity to thank you again for all your kindnesses to me and for the way you made me welcome when I arrived 5 years ago ( does n't time fly ! ) . |
| 14 | I had that at Christmas which made me bad all over Christmas right ? |
| 15 | light on the wall , had it all connected bang , bang , pull them erm , er wired them all up and still did it , that mine ? |
| 16 | I read them both again erm last year for the first time for many years , and I found Herodotus much the better of the two , because Herodotus was prepared to be curious about everything . |
| 17 | Nigel got them all up before they even said too much . |
| 18 | I just sat there , got them all out one at a time and did the whole damn lot ! |
| 19 | She got them all out . |
| 20 | Jack dropped a couple of shots with poor putts but got them both back with a superb eagle at the sixteenth — an uphill par five with a difficult green , long and narrow and well protected with bunkers . |
| 21 | Jessamy treasured them all equally , though . |
| 22 | At the drink-up after their New York appearance , the band were hanging out with ex-Nymph INGRE LORRE , who invited them all back to her mother 's house for a Halloween party ( surely an offer not to be passed up ) . |
| 23 | Nigel invited them all in for food and drink and listened spellbound to feats of derring-do , asking endless questions and reminding me slightly of the painting The Boyhood of Raleigh . |
| 24 | In a recent large UK search the company in question called on five of the major search firms , and invited them all in to make a competitive pitch to decide who was going to be successful at finding them a group chief executive . |
| 25 | Then he invited them both through into his office . |
| 26 | With every evidence of cordiality and goodwill , she invited them both round for supper the following evening . |
| 27 | ( His meanings were tinged with the sharp edges of anxieties that she could n't comprehend , and joy laved them all away . ) |
| 28 | The blurting ring of the telephone caught them all unexpectedly . |
| 29 | The young man and the girl did not see him coming and he caught them both around their legs and knocked them onto the floor . |
| 30 | We went out with them to Yours and Mine and The Sombrero , and we danced and found them all very crazy . |