Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One senior officer described policewomen as having an ‘ instinct for tidiness ’ which made them good administrators ( FN 30/11/87 , p. 33 ) ; frequently they were described as being suited to dealing with child and female offences because of their more compassionate natures compared to male colleagues . |
| 2 | Many people feared involvement in popular education because it made them immediate targets of the Contras . ’ |
| 3 | Almost all of the early wines were fortified with a good glug of grape spirit tossed into the fermenting brew , which made them mighty bruisers . |
| 4 | The majority of people that went through that service all had some recollection of things they did n't enjoy very much but they by and large thoroughly enjoyed their experience in the Army , it livened them up , it made them better men and we have got after all one of the best armies if not the best army in the world , it 's got to come from |
| 5 | An irresistible softness with an inner strength that made them million sellers . |
| 6 | But tutors were so impressed with the two girls ' work in textiles that they made them unconditional offers . |
| 7 | But the sheer range and volume of business with which the secretaries of state dealt made them important officers of government . |
| 8 | The Central Area pulled all these parts together , as it were , and made them interdependent portions of the whole . |
| 9 | It probably made them half cousins . |
| 10 | He stabbed them many times after they were dead . |
| 11 | He led the People of Israel out of slavery in Egypt , led them through the Red Sea , led them forty years in the wilderness and brought them safely to Palestine , Eretz Yisroel . ’ |
| 12 | The Wolverines ' borrowed silks lent them invaluable seconds wherein to close with those guards and sever their throats before they could fire or even cry a warning . |
| 13 | The procedural structure of trusts also lent them great advantages in setting up dispositions in favour of third parties , and enhanced the chances of those dispositions being observed and enforced . |
| 14 | So erm then er oh he asked me other questions . |
| 15 | They asked me personal questions that I could not even repeat here today . |
| 16 | Er , not in the decision , I I spoke to Mr and he asked me certain questions . |
| 17 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 18 | My old , dear and intimate friend Princess Marie Louise , who furnishing the Queen 's Dolls ' House , asked me some months ago to let twelve poems of mine be copied small to form one volume in the library ; and I selected the twelve shortest and simplest and least likely to fatigue the attention of dolls or the illustrious House of Hanover . ’ |
| 19 | The British official behind his high desk asked me numerous questions which I did n't understand . |
| 20 | She , and she got me five dishcloths and five dusters . |
| 21 | So he got me last nights , we 're gon na have to go tomorrow so we 'll have to go tonight now , got ta tell ! |
| 22 | Yeah , he got me some springs |
| 23 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 24 | Telling them to close their bibles , she read them two stories ; one about the beginnings of life , the other a warning on the dangers of immorality . |
| 25 | Gibson sold them four trees on the estate " … all of poor value … " part at 1s. a foot and partly at 1s. 6d . |
| 26 | But the diamond dealer sold them dud gems and paid dearly for it . |
| 27 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 28 | Then she made me promise to get them back to her in one piece within a week and sold me two tickets to a Ward Bond Retrospective at her film club in Ponder 's End . |
| 29 | A woman with a vacuum cleaner whose tube I fell over , the man who sold me withered flowers , even the couple who let their dog foul outside the gate were all candidates for a warm hug and a deluge of good wishes . |
| 30 | Asquith asked them two questions . |