Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It brought several things to mind : the evident barrier during negotiations between the steward and the women ; the warnings of a friend about my own relationship with the steward — ‘ You put too much trust in that man ’ ; and the remark made when I reported how I had initially explained my research aims to the union stewards — ‘ You told the Secret Service ! |
| 2 | But they were good teachers and well respected , a fact which I have heard my sons repeat often . |
| 3 | I reckoned I 've heard my mam say Tommy . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’ |
| 5 | But er I w I would think , although it 's before my time , I would think that er of what I 've heard my father talking about these early days , there was great enthusiasm for motorcycles and of course some of the early registered numbers you 'll find that there 's many of them were motorcycles , the young men of the town who had probably been cyclists , quite a number of them er took up this motorcycling and they made their own motorcycles so were buying either kits and er even manufacturing the tanks and these things themselves . |
| 6 | But the weekly half-hour I liked best was devoted to the old music hall songs of the ‘ gay nineties ’ , many of which I had heard my father sing . |
| 7 | And this man used to go up , do you know I 've heard my father say he 's come up three or four times a week and help him and when they slaughtered the things they used to have the slaughterhouse down the piste years ago , as I 'm talking about sixty , sixty , seventy years ago , sixty years ago , where they used to slaughter the stuff , you see , down the piste and this was the Christmas show this was , all these hindquarters of beef . |
| 8 | As I stood there my mind raced back to that time so many years ago when I had heard my mother say , ‘ I do n't love you , Nicky . ’ |
| 9 | If anything , it has even more justified my decision to leave Coventry where I was manager and join Chelsea — I certainly could not have been away for a month if I 'd stayed at Highfield Road . |
| 10 | I was to have broken my leg attempting to get from bed to the top of the stars . |
| 11 | ‘ But to be honest it has broken my heart to leave Bangor . |
| 12 | I might have broken my luck had I been able to get over the Alps on a raid to Turin on 11 June . |
| 13 | He would occasionally slide a lecherous hand inside his female registrar 's white coat saying : ‘ Tell me , my dear , where have they hidden my car keys this time ? ’ |
| 14 | Mark says , ‘ I 'd given my consent to AID but I could n't have told you how I might feel if Wendy did conceive . |
| 15 | ‘ I have not forgotten my promise to help you find a place , although I have not done so yet . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It was not something I would have recommended my clients to do . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I have held my hand time and again , and even when they drove me to act I have abated my askings to keep the balance true and save Wales from worse enmity . |
| 18 | Since then , through third parties , two opportunities have come my way to work with that celebrity . |
| 19 | You have n't pinched my fags have you ? |
| 20 | ‘ Always I have let my horn cry at setting forth , and though thereafter we may walk in the shadows , 1 will not go forth as a thief in the night . ’ |
| 21 | i ca n't say I suffered anything — having let my brain grow dull . |
| 22 | Yet since leaving Marcus I had let my imagination blow it all up into a Great Romance . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you think I 've let my tongue slip once with those creatures of yours marking my every word ? |
| 24 | For a few moments I had let my mind plunge into darkness , into a world where the experience of all my life was disproved and ghosts existed . |
| 25 | It 's whetted my appetite to enter other awards , now , ’ she said . |
| 26 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 27 | Scarborough 's Champers night club has won its fight to stay in business after magistrates over-ruled police objections to the licence being transferred to new owners , Pat Shannon and Ian Winton . |
| 28 | And er , anyroad somebody brought her daughter , whether Sally 's husband had rung her daughter to come . |
| 29 | The depression was not limited to the coffee-growing area ; there was also a decline in employment in the packing industry in Colombo , and many temporary emigrants from maritime areas who had earned their livelihood providing services in the previously-expanding economy of the central highlands were forced to return home . |
| 30 | When she had arrived from France she was supposed to contact friends of her family , but the bag which had contained their address had been lost or stolen . |