Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the comm-screen exposes faces in the harshest detail , and for an instant I saw something move at the back of his wet old eyes , like a creature threshing in a net . |
| 2 | When I had a lock that was sticking what did I blow What powder I did I blow into the lock to make it work better ? |
| 3 | Of course I heard I 've heard all the arguments about co-opting , but I 'll tell the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh this that who 's going to do the co-opting , those who are already on the police authority |
| 4 | In a red cloak I saw him go , His back was bent , his step was slow , And as he laboured through the cold He seemed a hundred winters old . |
| 5 | Several times I saw him look to see how many pages more he had to read . |
| 6 | He 's talking about the time I approached them at Leeds Poly and asked them why their logo featured women 's breasts rather than the species-ist cow 's udders I made them change it to . |
| 7 | Once , when he was the centre of attention at the youth club I saw him do it again . |
| 8 | When Dad had eaten his tea I heard him ask Mum if she 'd kept the payments up on the insurance policy . |
| 9 | Oh yes , yes , yes but erm on the radio prog programme I heard someone say there was every street corner these women but they were n't , I do n't think there was , I think it was you know , there were a lot of women that used to do it illegal . |
| 10 | Those were the last words I heard him say for over two years . |
| 11 | We were bunched together in the semi-final of the 1976 Olympic 1500m in Montreal and as we went for the same small gap I felt his spike again my shin . |
| 12 | She was standing on the drive , reaching the end of a discussion about a kitchen order with Leif , and as Vitor climbed from the car she felt herself grow tense . |
| 13 | As she went towards her car she heard him call , ‘ I 'll look out for you . ’ |
| 14 | When you said you came from good tough stock it made me shiver a bit . |
| 15 | He wanted the youth to go away , for in his mind he saw him fall back with a suppressed scream of terror and pain , holding a handkerchief to his face . |
| 16 | I wanted to try them on right there but for months he let them dangle in the closet upstairs , growing the wrinkles and airpockets that would finally fit his shape , the peculiar wishbone of his shanks . |
| 17 | Oddly enough , later on in the Mess I heard him repeat part of the rollicking , but not my reply , to the station commander . |
| 18 | From her hut she heard him call to the Moi and her sons , and a moment later they all plunged naked into the river . |
| 19 | She stood up and walked to the door , not trusting herself to look back , and after a second she heard him come to his feet . |
| 20 | You 're in the hall you heard one shout of armed police . |
| 21 | As she entered the alleyway she heard someone call . |
| 22 | ‘ But he 's unusually shy and when he first arrived from Millwall he felt his price tag was a burden . |
| 23 | In an effort to quell the hysteria she made herself do ordinary things — putting the kettle on to boil — milk to warm — instant coffee in two brown mugs . |
| 24 | For an instant she felt him tense , then she was free , his breathing harsh as he drew away . |
| 25 | Other times she made me promise to keep them for ever , to remember her by , and say a prayer She was a bit vague who it was I was to pray to . |
| 26 | As I worked at my translations I heard him mutter and grunt at his desk . |
| 27 | I was sitting in a row exactly in front of Harold Wilson and his party , and during the last interval I heard him ask his neighbour whether anyone would ‘ have seen these plays right through ’ . |
| 28 | In the chemistry I did you seem to me to be terribly empirical , you had an inorganic substance and you had to learn absolute by heart what it did if you put it in water and you heated it and you did this that and the other . |
| 29 | As I left the room I heard you say … ’ |
| 30 | For a moment she felt his warm breath on her half-bared shoulder , and caught a waft of the very dry , utterly masculine scent of his aftershave . |