Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leslie had taught me how to live , and the war how to endure . |
| 2 | ( At that time nobody had taught me how to preserve them to keep as specimens . |
| 3 | My father , a policeman , had taught me how to do this years before . |
| 4 | Erm , I found out today , that I did n't realise she 'd actually passed a c , a beautician 's course , so I do n't know why she 's taught me out of all , has n't taught me how to go on . |
| 5 | But my father had taught me how to make them on my arm , fox-bites . |
| 6 | He had taught them how to pick a lock , steal a car , to shoplift … |
| 7 | When the settlers of Canada and North America took Indian land , they conveniently ignored that the Indians had taught them how to cook local foods and prepare herbal medicines . |
| 8 | And the way she put it , she ought to have been alive today , she could have taught them how to tell people about sex . |
| 9 | The matter that has given me most cause for admiration is the way in which he has conducted himself while the horrible events have gone on and been reported in the press . |
| 10 | Of course , her letter has given me extra cause to continue thinking of her as ‘ Miss Kenton ’ , since it would seem , sadly , that her marriage is finally to come to an end . |
| 11 | ‘ If A delivers goods to B on sale or return and B having received them immediately delivers them to C on sale or return , the reasonable time in the one case must , I think , be co-extensive with that in the other case and if that reasonable time elapses and C brings back the goods to B and B takes them back to A , everybody is acting within his rights , and it appears to me that property never passes … if under like circumstances A delivers goods to B and B delivers them to C in each case on sale or return and the reasonable time be , let us say , 14 days , and C after four days sells the goods or elects to buy the goods , I think property will have passed , because C will have done an act which renders it impossible for B to return the goods to A. ’ |
| 12 | ( The first block has given them enough experience to pinpoint their anxieties more accurately , but not enough to overcome them . ) |
| 13 | But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’ |
| 14 | given them often do that . |
| 15 | By then he should have fully recovered from the injured right thigh muscle that has delayed his eagerly awaited debut in Italian football . |
| 16 | I complained and although it was stopped I still got my books later . |
| 17 | I think the Rainbow people had rung everyone else to warn them . |
| 18 | There is nothing else you need to do , except let everyone else wonder quite what you have done . |
| 19 | The young man who had let them in introduced himself as Malengin Fole . |
| 20 | That does n't mean to say that you 'd have let them necessarily get away with it on the spot but you you 're still going to do a persuasive tact but in the end if they say no fine . |
| 21 | I 'm d let me just tell you some of the side effects which the company making it admit to . |
| 22 | there were four people at the last meeting er and two others from the department a male and a female who looked after the bits of the department but I can not now remember what their names were let me just see if I 've got my notes which were written on the inside of a British Airways flight ticket come in , hi ya |
| 23 | I was shattered , but how could I defend myself by explaining that his hitherto unsuspected mistress had just rung me up to spill the beans ? ’ |
| 24 | Oh my God , darling , I 'd forgotten I ever signed that ! ’ |
| 25 | Turning to the consumer 's view of these conditions , a customer who buys from a " never knowingly undersold " ( or , indeed , any ) source presumably would benefit from occasionally looking elsewhere to police the claim ( though there is a free-rider problem here — if the price reduction becomes general once any one consumer has complained , why not let someone else do it ? ) . |
| 26 | Then if I get caught I just get a caution and that 's it . |
| 27 | Ah , how come I never get any cuddles like that |
| 28 | How come I never hear you talk about where to put the soup SCENE ? |
| 29 | All right , how come I still feel it , in here ? |
| 30 | A surgeon who immediately welcomed news of chloroform could reasonably claim always to have been aware of the pain although he had disciplined himself not to heed it . |