Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times I saw him look to see how many pages more he had to read . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Those were the last words I heard him say for over two years . |
| 4 | The Thatcher group had several characteristics which made them differ from their predecessors . |
| 5 | He was in his late twenties with pale skin , prematurely thinning hair and wore a pair of steel-rimmed spectacles which made him look studious . |
| 6 | Aspects which made him remember an Olvia and mourn the death of that comparative stranger . |
| 7 | Len 's mop of unruly fair hair always made him stand out in a crowded goalmouth but , even over 30 years later , he continues to stand out in the memories of Palace fans who saw him play for our club . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They had also caused Bristol much discomfort and penalties in the line but Ian Aitcheson , the recruit from Waterloo , barely made amends with a drop goal and a conversion for not only three penalties missed in four minutes , but a couple of passes which made everybody wince and defence pulse rates surge . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As I worked at my translations I heard him mutter and grunt at his desk . |
| 12 | Putrefaction had set in around the nose and mouth , the skin felt cold and soggy as Corbett gently turned the head to look at the fatal weal round the neck , a broad , purple black gash with little round indentations which made it look like some ghostly parody of a necklace . |
| 13 | He was talking to a small wizened man with long hair and a curved bone through his cheeks which made him appear tusked . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not I , but all the lenders who made it work . ’ |
| 15 | However , it was to the small farmer and small businessman , the very people who had failed to colonise the east , individuals who felt themselves beset by Poles , Jews and communists in ways they could not articulate , that the Nazis were to make their main appeal . |
| 16 | Once you had been through the three years what did you find had developed most for you as an actor ? |
| 17 | For his improvising and melody line resources Joe draws from much the same scales we saw him use for his harmony . |
| 18 | I received a few letters from strangers which made me realize that people did care . |
| 19 | I can still see in each of them the special qualities which made me select them . |
| 20 | Jordan , the lawyer — a tubby little man , very dark , with glasses which made him look owlish — said : ‘ Do you know anything about these books , Gina ? ’ |
| 21 | I did n't have to do any of these crazy things they made me do . |
| 22 | Alan gave it back to him , but when he had had two mouthfuls he let it drop . |
| 23 | Bernie did one very important thing for The Pistols He made us focus our thoughts . |
| 24 | Jane do n't be nosy , you should n't read other people 's things what did she say it ? |
| 25 | At the top of the back stairs I made them wait . |
| 26 | We found the taxi driver who took him and the girl to the station and witnesses who saw them get on the train . |
| 27 | But we can check your story later — find witnesses who saw you leave Cipriani 's . |
| 28 | It is thought he might have hitched a lift and motorists who saw him have been asked to come forward . |
| 29 | Middlesbrough bring back Robbie Mustoe for Tommy Wright , but are otherwise unchanged , fielding most of the players who helped them win promotion last season . |
| 30 | Over the same period , Joe has been one of the players who helped it develop from its infamy as the so-called sign of a mis-spent youth to become a symbol of sporting success . |