Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 2 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 3 | I asked both bodies to get together if they needed further information from British Coal they should secure it . |
| 4 | After the third call Morris said to Bob , ‘ I asked some people to step round . ’ |
| 5 | I asked this housemaster to develop this further . |
| 6 | And of course the third group of students write and say , ‘ Yes , I applied last year to do Biology , I want to do it , and I 'm really clear I want to do it . ’ |
| 7 | Planning for the fateful flight started several weeks earlier when I made tentative arrangements to visit a microlight manufacturer at Membury airfield in Berkshire for the review of the Chevron which appears in this issue . |
| 8 | My son spent a year at Liphook Junior School , during which time my husband and I made frequent visits to discuss our concerns regarding this apparent lack of progress . |
| 9 | I made violent splashes to attract his attention ; he circled until a rescue launch picked me up , some 30 to 45 minutes later . |
| 10 | Back that the al-Rasheed hotel , where I was staying , I made sporadic efforts to escape this undercurrent of hysteria . |
| 11 | Proposals I announced last month to create 12 new environmentally sensitive areas will more than treble the area covered . |
| 12 | And it was a little later that same night that his lordship said with some gravity , shaking his head : ‘ I fought that war to preserve justice in this world . |
| 13 | When work group I met last June to ratify the final draft of their report , the US co-chairman , Claire Harris , did not appear . |
| 14 | Loving in truth , and fain in verse my love to show , That she ( dear she ) might take some pleasure of my pain ; Pleasure might cause her read , reading might make her know ; Knowledge might pity win , and pity grace obtain ; I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe , Studying investions fine , her wits to entertain ; Oft turning others ' leaves , to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburnt brain . |
| 15 | So er I 've got some , I got them curtains , I got blue curtains to go out |
| 16 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 17 | He checks I got enough money to buy the string , and then I go off . |
| 18 | ‘ We had some players on expensive long-term contracts that we could n't afford , while I got some players to agree to wage cuts , ’ he explained . |
| 19 | I tried three times to get in but was beaten back by flames . ’ |
| 20 | He complained , not at length : ‘ This was the first time , and except one , the last , that I found any reason to complain of a Scotish [ sic ] table , and such disappointments , I suppose , must be expected in every country , where there is no great frequence of travellers . ’ |
| 21 | Well for the first few days I found enough energy to take an occasional dip in the pool and play a leisurely game of bowls . |
| 22 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
| 23 | I helped those men to kill Riccio , and now the Earl of Moray is back here with them ! |
| 24 | Blair crept down to the bank whilst I rehearsed various reasons to explain why he had not caught the trout : lack of experience , bad casting technique . |
| 25 | I used many things to make them cane and dowling and metal coathangers and aluminium tent-poles , and paper and plastic sheeting and dustbin bags and sheets and string and nylon rope and twine and all sorts of little straps and buckles and bits of cord and elastic bands and strips of wire and pins and screws and nails and pieces cannibalised from model yachts and various toys . |
| 26 | I used little shells to represent the people in the town , as usual . |
| 27 | Dad and Liza went inquiring door to door while Frankie and I used this opportunity to see if our bottles were safe in the washhouse . |
| 28 | I bounded naked upstairs to find the place merrily ablaze . |
| 29 | and I caused that kingdom to tremble . |
| 30 | I woke one night to hear noises downstairs . |