Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd be a liar if I tried to pretend I knew the answer to that one . |
| 2 | I 'm very relieved you 're going into action — and you might like to know I reworded the signal Buckmaster was sending , made it , shall we say less positive . ’ |
| 3 | The Campbells found Hector hardy , which they had expected , and intelligent , which they had n't ; while he found the same thing about them , in reverse ; and they were each surprised to find that-they liked the others well enough , in spite of their ridiculous clothes . |
| 4 | Included in this force were eighty Aichi D3A1 bombers led by Takashigi Egusa from the Soryu , they were to bomb the aircraft carriers , but as there were no carriers to bomb they bombed the ships dotted about Pearl Harbour . |
| 5 | , who had felt perfectly well , was astonished to discover he had the early stages of tuberculosis . |
| 6 | After this episode I stopped telephoning him , only to find he enjoyed the game so much that he began calling me . " |
| 7 | Late one afternoon Rioja had rushed in to tell them that the whole camp was being evacuated across the border and they must flee before the men who were coming to shoot them reached the hut . |
| 8 | Connie held that it was a simple matter to forgive your enemies because , if you had the sense you were born with , you did n't see much of them , whereas with the way society was constituted , you spent most of your time with your nearest and dearest , and the things they could do to annoy you made the whole concept of forgiveness extremely difficult to entertain . |
| 9 | But when they came to drink they found the water had changed to wine . |
| 10 | ‘ I used to imagine I found the woman in the movie . |
| 11 | According to our mother , he was so late that she began to suspect she had the hysterical pregnancy of all time . |
| 12 | After a mile or two which took an hour to cover they found the way blocked by sodden ground . |
| 13 | If the offer is likely to be contested then the offeror will not be able to use the target 's board as a barometer to help it set the price . |
| 14 | VOLUNTEERS who sang to a sick dolphin for 36 hours to calm it returned the mammal to the sea at Gwithian , Cornwall , yesterday . |
| 15 | I asked her to let me put the matter to Zacco himself , and let the King decide . |
| 16 | Doctor Baron had given her something , she ought to let him put the light out and go to sleep . |
| 17 | The atmosphere was cordial and relaxed — the Emperor even entertained the children with conjuring tricks — and when the time came to leave he assured the Queen that ‘ If we stayed longer we should end up by forgetting France altogether . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I have reason to believe she saw the sense of it , ’ said Viola . |
| 19 | Leith threw over her shoulder in passing , and without pausing to knock she opened the door on her stride and went ‘ straight in ’ . |
| 20 | This was to ensure they had the correct commitment and were prepared to organize for quality . |
| 21 | Then it was a half-hour 's drive from our base to Christophe and Hedwige 's house , and from there Mike would set off on an hour 's run with Christophe through the forest , still in darkness , to ensure they reached the chimpanzees ' nest site before the occupants moved off for the day . |
| 22 | Making life hell so he resigned , and threatening to expose his negligence to ensure he made the minimum of fuss , was much more acceptable to MacQuillan . ’ |
| 23 | The Minister wished to revoke them only to ensure he obtained the expected revenue from the increased cost . |
| 24 | On his first attempt to start he pumped the accelerator too hard and almost flooded out . |
| 25 | These included raising the age of consent to eighteen , abolishing the notorious ‘ escape clause ’ ( allowing male defendants in assault cases to claim they believed the girl to be over sixteen ) , extending the time limit for prosecutions and criminalizing incest and male importuning . |
| 26 | They like to claim they forced the South Africans out . |
| 27 | She telephoned police and as she waited for them to arrive she noticed the same youths approach a man with two young children and drench one of the children . |
| 28 | the Beverley sisters were on and they said they used to wear very daring clothes and the B B C banned them from showing their navels , cos you 're not supposed to show your navel on television and you could n't say the word , oh yeah Lonnie Donegan was on and he said that he was banned from singing this song er in eighty forty was such a little drip and in it he says we beat the bloody British and they would n't let him sing that because he swore so he had to sing we beat the ruddy British |
| 29 | For some reason it was restful to watch him lay the crochet-bordered cloth cornerwise on the polished table just so ; arrange the tea-tray , and bring in delicate , perfectly symmetrical sandwiches , and the Victoria sponge which , under his wife 's direction , he had made so beautifully and had set upon a spotless lace doily precisely in the centre of the dish . |
| 30 | He spoke just twice , once to answer his name and once to confirm he understood the charge . |