Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dodged between the startled shoppers , none of whom made any attempt to stop him . |
| 2 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 3 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 4 | I asked both bodies to get together if they needed further information from British Coal they should secure it . |
| 5 | After the third call Morris said to Bob , ‘ I asked some people to step round . ’ |
| 6 | I asked this housemaster to develop this further . |
| 7 | And of course the third group of students write and say , ‘ Yes , I applied last year to do Biology , I want to do it , and I 'm really clear I want to do it . ’ |
| 8 | As a child I overheard two women talking . |
| 9 | Any more than that I wasted five minutes reading his articles ? |
| 10 | ‘ I made sure Ryan found out about it . |
| 11 | I made sure Frankie washed himself and warned him to behave himself as well . |
| 12 | Planning for the fateful flight started several weeks earlier when I made tentative arrangements to visit a microlight manufacturer at Membury airfield in Berkshire for the review of the Chevron which appears in this issue . |
| 13 | My son spent a year at Liphook Junior School , during which time my husband and I made frequent visits to discuss our concerns regarding this apparent lack of progress . |
| 14 | I made violent splashes to attract his attention ; he circled until a rescue launch picked me up , some 30 to 45 minutes later . |
| 15 | I mentioned the reduction in unemployment that has taken place in Holyhead , and , while the decrease has not been as good there as in some other areas , the announcements that I made this morning gave a priority to Holyhead . |
| 16 | Back that the al-Rasheed hotel , where I was staying , I made sporadic efforts to escape this undercurrent of hysteria . |
| 17 | Proposals I announced last month to create 12 new environmentally sensitive areas will more than treble the area covered . |
| 18 | And it was a little later that same night that his lordship said with some gravity , shaking his head : ‘ I fought that war to preserve justice in this world . |
| 19 | When work group I met last June to ratify the final draft of their report , the US co-chairman , Claire Harris , did not appear . |
| 20 | I met this guy named Desmond . |
| 21 | Loving in truth , and fain in verse my love to show , That she ( dear she ) might take some pleasure of my pain ; Pleasure might cause her read , reading might make her know ; Knowledge might pity win , and pity grace obtain ; I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe , Studying investions fine , her wits to entertain ; Oft turning others ' leaves , to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburnt brain . |
| 22 | oh , something like that and you get three , three bars and that 's a hundred pound , I got fifteen pound did n't I , do n't you start . |
| 23 | So er I 've got some , I got them curtains , I got blue curtains to go out |
| 24 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 25 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 26 | Well I rang them up yesterday because I got two cheques left . |
| 27 | He checks I got enough money to buy the string , and then I go off . |
| 28 | Flavia said , ‘ I got some work done today — I think I 'm going to be all right . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We had some players on expensive long-term contracts that we could n't afford , while I got some players to agree to wage cuts , ’ he explained . |
| 30 | got some , I got some people coming round tonight so I was gon na do it anyway . |