Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them asked to see a girl called Evelyn Harris and Jackie guessed correctly that her letter had gone astray , though he never said as much to her . |
| 2 | I asked to see a breakdown of the price quoted to me and found that I was being charged four times more than the normal retail price for curtain tape and hooks and was quoted for more material than I needed . |
| 3 | At university I chanced to meet a detective sergeant who had been in the Durham drug squad outside the Sociology building in New Elvet , Durham city . |
| 4 | Then I 'ad to get a job ; that 's when I saw a notice in a shop window about a Brixton fam'ly wantin' a maid , so I went after it . |
| 5 | ‘ I cheated to prevent a theft , not to achieve one , ’ said Cadfael . |
| 6 | The report that I commissioned to get a debate going on why some schools were failing was commissioned from three people whose expertise has not been challenged and nor , as far as I know , have most of their conclusions . |
| 7 | Yet somehow Edward must be appeased , so I sought to make a virtue of my ignorance , asking questions that would allow him to air his greater experience . |
| 8 | Personally I thought the fears overdone , but nevertheless I sought to find a way of transferring the operation to the private sector which would minimize the risk of industrial action . |
| 9 | I agreed to undertake a panel . |
| 10 | I agreed to give a dinner and it took place in my London home some weeks later . |
| 11 | I agreed to take a look at these efforts , and we arranged to meet next day after my morning lectures . |
| 12 | Mark and I agreed to have a game together soon and I moved off down the course , and mused on the ways in which the pro golfers cope in their different ways with the unusual demands of the pro-am . |
| 13 | La Meije loomed above , but I failed to find a party who were doing the Grand Pic and returning . |
| 14 | I failed to play a tape throughout the weekend of a drill relentlessly droning away in some shelfless room out of sight . |
| 15 | Three days post-spawning I planned to remove a percentage of the anticipated hatch to rear separately and began to prepare another tank , only to find the female eating the eggs before I was fully prepared . |
| 16 | ‘ Now look , Connie me pet , it 's bleedin' cold in the parlour , ’ complained Archie , ‘ and , anyway , I got to see a bloke about a job . ’ |
| 17 | But , says Frank , ‘ a few weeks before I got to see a specialist I passed what looked like a bucket-full of blood into the toilet . |
| 18 | So I determined I got to have a go . |
| 19 | ‘ I expected to see a beach ! ’ she exclaimed . |
| 20 | I looked out to sea , almost as though I expected to see a puff of smoke and a beast with a forked tail appear from the darkness . |
| 21 | ‘ I expected to see a lot of back play but have been surprised by the lack of it , ’ he said . |
| 22 | I expected to wait a while for a spawning , but within two weeks they surprised me . |
| 23 | And I tried to do a pattern but it sent all my eyes crazy counting these |
| 24 | I mean I 've actually I tried to persuade a colleague of mine that I could quite easily sexually harass a male student of mine , and the reason I could do that , or the way I could do that , is because I have power over him . |
| 25 | Two or three cars passed me and I tried to thumb a lift , but they did n't stop . |
| 26 | My voice had nearly gone when I tried to order a brandy . |
| 27 | Anyway , my worst fears about Barny were confirmed the first time I tried to put a leash on him . |
| 28 | I tried to have a word with the Cashier but he was n't talking . |
| 29 | The last show of the tour was in Atlanta and I decided to give a little party for the singers and musicians and the crew and I tried to rent a banquet room at the hotel , but because it was Thanksgiving Weekend , they said they could only give me a suite . |
| 30 | When I tried to place a bet at the Tote at Cheltenham not long ago , I found myself behind a queue of Irish priests . |