Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle . |
| 2 | I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle . |
| 3 | What happened next , was done by a child ‘ who had suffered years of subtle torture at the hands of a madman whose twisted mind helped him justify all his crimes ’ . |
| 4 | The famous British journalist and broadcaster , Alistair Cooke , recalled that at no time in his many years in the United States did he receive such a " blizzard of disgusted mail " from the old country . |
| 5 | these bricks did you see those |
| 6 | Andy did you put any coffee in this ? |
| 7 | What subjects did you enjoy most ? |
| 8 | Took them out to make the tea did you get any biscuits ? |
| 9 | Yet neither at this stage nor for the next eighteen months did he have any clear plans to launch a full-scale attack on the church or to break with Rome . |
| 10 | He lay for some minutes listening to the clatter of boots , slamming of doors and distant shouts before the snorts and squeals of armoured personnel carriers below his window made him realise this was far from normal and was , in fact , an Agile Blade . |
| 11 | The sun made it warm enough to sit outside and , although swimming in the pool was out of the question so early in the year , Jenna managed to get an even golden tan . |
| 12 | Woodruffe helped him drink some Scotch and put him in Rogers 's limousine which a mechanic had brought over . |
| 13 | Only when he saw the two girls actually standing up to peer at him past the curtains of Healy 's window did he show any reaction . |
| 14 | And that 's why at that time , near the end of the war , and when the talk of nationalization become greater , the hope of nationalization because as I said before , never in our wildest dream did we think that Labour would get in with such an overwhelming majority . |
| 15 | And never in my wildest dream did we imagine that Labour would get in with the resounding majority that they did get in . |
| 16 | ‘ It never did , Fernando ; not for one second did I have any doubts of how deeply I felt for you , only doubts of how deeply you had felt for me . |
| 17 | The soft little click the door made when she closed it caused him to turn his head , and not by one flicker of an eyelash did he betray any emotion of her entrance . |
| 18 | The experience of war made him question both the metaphysical assumption of an impassible God , and the hortatory patriotic moralism of many contemporary churchmen and political leaders . |
| 19 | Rain saw them like that for a second , then Tim twisted round and glared at her . |
| 20 | Phil did I turn that the fire off at home ? |
| 21 | Returning across the square she felt she was going home ; not for one moment did she confuse such a place with the Aber House Hotel . |
| 22 | When you worked er before the war did you experience any wage cuts ? |
| 23 | Married men with children were the group most likely to reply that taxation made them work more hours . |
| 24 | Colour made us take more care with our choice of clothes . |
| 25 | ‘ Then what in hell 's name made you come all this way in weather like this ? ’ |
| 26 | Doing all that TV stuff made me realise that , no , what I 'm interested in is pure movement . |
| 27 | How many discs did you say this was ? |
| 28 | What guarantee did you have that it was n't a decision taken in a moment of temporary depression ? |
| 29 | Yet , what guarantee did he have that the Emperor was actually the begetter of the hydra project ? |
| 30 | She would have written to the man to protest , but there had been no address , and only when she had power of attorney did she find any link with Venice — the Banco D'Oro . |