Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had ridden Ile de Bourbon for trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton in all of his home gallops and also won on the colt in the King Edward VII stakes at Royal Ascot but when Piggott asked me had the horse made any improvement from then and before the big King George race I had to tell him that I was unaware of it just in case he might want to take over . |
| 2 | I have known you always , it seems , and when we at last met I felt the air between us stir as if you too knew . ’ |
| 3 | Twenty five appointments a week , I , I do n't think I knew the figure , er , Linda , but if that 's the , the figure I 'm not a bit surprised . |
| 4 | ‘ But once Northants had given me a chance , I did think I had the talent . |
| 5 | After his signature , he added : ‘ P.S. Do not think I stole the plate , linen , etc. from you . |
| 6 | I 'd be a liar if I tried to pretend I knew the answer to that one . |
| 7 | A forward has a sixth sense and from an early stage I realised I had the corner back in my pocket . |
| 8 | That 'll be alright so cos he slid his my brief case and er I got all the way home , no problem at all , I 'd got newspaper under the back , so it did n't scratch the back when I come to come down Mill Road this lorry 's go , I mean I got the tail gate up and er I sort of looked in the mirror , I thought oh my goodness my tail gate , I could hear it so and I braked a bit sharp and that slid down and scratched along the dash board ! |
| 9 | I mean I got the Maxwell I mean I think Mum got that . |
| 10 | I think I mean I got the impression on several occasions that he 's actually quite nervous in the post . |
| 11 | Yeah I I I mean I got the point , but er where does it take the building industry or the district . |
| 12 | saw Bob and , I mean I passed the pub at a quarter past twelve . |
| 13 | I du n no what the situation with Andrew is , cos I mean I heard the rumours that he was gon na for Cheam . |
| 14 | I think , I think the other thing is as well though is that when you , I mean you 've been sitting pensions cos I mean I had the P H I which I thought it was easier to actually describe erm but erm it 's easy for us to actually sit back and , and go back on everything that everyth er everybody else did wrong is n't it , so |
| 15 | Well that 's it cos I 'd , I mean I had the accident , well I mean I , I did n't hurt myself and I was very lucky I did n't hit the cars but erm it was bad enough with er and I ended up on this big grass embankment at the end of the bypass . |
| 16 | I mean I had the information there that you did n't . |
| 17 | I mean I had the heating on to start with and oh I thought this is ridiculous . |
| 18 | I started it — I mean I started the nature part — for my mother . ’ |
| 19 | The first problem was to work out the correct overall send and return levels , but with the Quad-FX 's input and master volume set on unity gain I found the processors worked at roughly the same settings anyway , so there was n't much need to tweak the levels . |
| 20 | Later , as the plates were welded I watched the hull take form , the bulkheads put in place and , scrambling around the apparent chaos of electrical cables and skeleton framework inside the hull , it was hard to visualise all this as our future living quarters , or that we should ever take her to sea in a fully operational capacity . |
| 21 | ‘ I have , but he does n't believe there are two of us ; he saw the card you sent me and he thinks I got the idea of a twin from that . |
| 22 | Once everything had been checked I filled the vat with water and switched the pump on . |
| 23 | Would n't have wormed through any Factory Safety Act passed in Britain in the last fifty years , open and unshielded parts , and half of the men who used them wore the scars on their hands to prove the danger . |
| 24 | They forget I took the job on the understanding that management of a national team can only be part-time employment . |
| 25 | They say I had the vanity to suppose that I might marry him . |
| 26 | They say I had the vanity to go down to Croisset and make an embarrassing scene on his doorstep . |
| 27 | They say I had the vanity to suppose that he and I might one day share the authorship of some literary work . |
| 28 | ‘ Because of that , the superstitious say I met the fairies and went to live with them for nine years . |
| 29 | . So the nest day I s As I say I slammed the phone down |
| 30 | Er and er I say I signed the pledge never to touch intoxicating liquors , which I kept for until I was thirty five . |