Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the English Lake District I have heard them mimicking the curlew , a bird not found in the Cambridge area . |
| 2 | You have taught me to read the fires of meaning but I am inadequate . |
| 3 | ( Bitter experience has taught me to remove the gaffer at the end of the event only by holding the wire down on the floor as you pull the tape up . |
| 4 | The Army have not dropped their controversial access conditions as was reported , but have amended them following the representations they have received from the BMC and the views that were expressed at the Castlemartin meeting in March . |
| 5 | Now that the work has been completed I hope the church will continue to attract pilgrims to the shrine of St Melangell , as it has for the last eight hundred years . |
| 6 | And yet after that was completed I think the Water the Drinking Water Inspectorate condemned it as being one of the worst qualities of water in the country . |
| 7 | Later , as the plates were welded I watched the hull take form , the bulkheads put in place and , scrambling around the apparent chaos of electrical cables and skeleton framework inside the hull , it was hard to visualise all this as our future living quarters , or that we should ever take her to sea in a fully operational capacity . |
| 8 | Once everything had been checked I filled the vat with water and switched the pump on . |
| 9 | ‘ You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the Throne . |
| 10 | For many are accompanied by mothers who 've let them take the day off . |
| 11 | You could of let me have the first one |
| 12 | And the prophecy of Isaiah 61 : 1 , ‘ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me , for he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor … ’ stands in Luke 's Gospel ( 4:18 ) , as a beacon shedding light over the whole of his ministry . |
| 13 | A sentence such as ( 8 ) below could refer to the past ( How could you have expected me to know the answers to those questions which you asked me last week ? ) , the present ( Why are you asking me ? |
| 14 | ‘ You would n't have caught me walking the streets in my dancing shoes . ’ |
| 15 | As the diffs have been rebuilt I suspect the rear diff may be the cause of the noise . |
| 16 | ‘ But , ’ he went on inexorably , ‘ I had n't expected you to achieve the desired result in one short morning in a strange city . |
| 17 | ‘ How come she pays the bills ? ’ |
| 18 | But now others think they have got you and they will find out this afternoon that they have caught you speaking the truth . |
| 19 | Mr Garsia said that when Mrs Cook discovered the dog had collapsed she telephoned the owners , and took the dog to a veterinary surgeon . |
| 20 | ‘ How come you discovered the money at that particular moment ? ’ |
| 21 | Maybe she believed him , for Rufus had once caught her lifting the lid and looking into the jar at the wood ash Adam had scraped up from the site of the handkerchief man 's last bonfire . |
| 22 | With her father 's fate still undecided , he had caught her cruising the shops as though she had n't a care in the world . |
| 23 | If her parents had reported her missing the night before she 'd still have been dead , would n't she ? " |
| 24 | This was the second attempt to install the liberal Komissarov in the post : in January Moscow city soviet had nominated him to replace the hardliner Pyotr Bogdanov , but the USSR Interior Ministry had rejected the nomination on the grounds that it had not been consulted , and had ordered Bogdanov to remain in the post . |
| 25 | How come they use the horse Sir ? |
| 26 | How come they use the same box office , I suppose they would would n't they ? |
| 27 | How easily she had let him manipulate the transition . |
| 28 | I should have let him shoot the boy . ’ |
| 29 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
| 30 | I should n't have let him have the key . |