Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone has faced the embarrassing dilemma of deciding how much extra to give a waiter , hairdresser or taxi-driver . |
| 2 | Every , everyone , everyone has seen the little lamb but never seen her bear . |
| 3 | ‘ Here everyone has forgotten the old courtesies . |
| 4 | This is probably because they are all adapted to forest or woodland conditions and none of them has developed the close-knit social formations that are characteristic of open-country animals . |
| 5 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 6 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 7 | Although no-one has explored the human visual cortex in the fine detail that the anatomists and electrophysiologists have studied the visual cortex of monkeys , there are a number of indirect sources of evidence to support this position . |
| 8 | I I I think erm a lot of teachers would now look back on those days with er a certain fondness now bearing in mind what 's what 's happened since and the the the succession of education secretaries we 've had since since then I mean had the only one in recent years who I would say has attempted a genuine dialogue with the teachers and tried to do something constructive is John McGregor . |
| 9 | I got caught last week because I got fed the wrong line . |
| 10 | And in the morning , yeah , you have to wake up earlier they 'd bring the hosepipe and they 'd wake you up with cold water and you 'd have to have a cold shower and everything And sometimes they , they put , they 'd used I got , I got done the worse and , like , I just woke up cos I felt cold . |
| 11 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 12 | I got to , when I was going to the little school I got told the little ones . |
| 13 | So as soon as someone has faced the critical nature of his dilemma without God ( the first level ) and has come to recognize that if God 's revelation is true he does have a meaningful answer to his dilemma ( the second level ) , then , logically , the next urgent question is , But how may I know that God 's revelation is true ? |
| 14 | To add some sort of spice , someone has had the bright idea of bringing on the JB Horns . |
| 15 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
| 16 | I originally decided to meet you because I 'd heard the civil police were n't letting ‘ sleeping spies lie ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought I 'd seen the last of this particular fashion accessory . ’ |
| 18 | I 'd seen the naked soul of my Mother . |
| 19 | Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning . |
| 20 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ? |
| 22 | I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’ |
| 23 | But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing . |
| 24 | I 'd believed the English boy would protect me from these sounds . |
| 25 | There was general approval that I 'd asked the right question — no one back in the newsroom realised how hard it had been . |
| 26 | Nicola is such a brilliant student I 'd asked the Royal Ballet to give her an audition . ’ |
| 27 | But if so I felt that I had a chance of retrieving the situation , once I 'd made the Fraxillian delivery . |
| 28 | I was so afraid tonight when you did n't show up that I 'd made the biggest mistake of my life in letting you go back to England without trying to extract a promise from you . ’ |
| 29 | We all just sat there like Mickey Mouse was dead or something , and then we got on the train and went back home and did n't say anything to each other , and all the kids at school thought I 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 30 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |