Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Managers were proud to lead their staff into dispute and out into the streets over the years ; unfortunately , very many of them became the pit bull terriers of 1992 ’ . |
| 2 | To find out what the food was like in the RAF today I asked the Catering Branch to tell me how things were different from my days ( the 1950's , I 'm not that old ! ) . |
| 3 | I asked the probation department if they could arrange a visit as it did n't look like anyone else was going to . |
| 4 | I asked the Home Secretary to list the kinds of information currently held on the police national computer under the data class of warning signals . |
| 5 | I asked the VD clinic about the glands while on a routine checkup . |
| 6 | Against my better judgment , I asked the record man if he were able to bring impoverished blues singers over to Ireland . |
| 7 | At the entrance to the Press tent I asked the security man if Toby was inside and he pointed him out in the middle of the usual muddle of desks and papers , with telephones ringing and cigarette smoke drifting , and expletives exploding . |
| 8 | I asked the security guard to order me a taxi . ’ |
| 9 | I avoided the chocolate cake because I thought it looked a little sickly . |
| 10 | Then I faked the car crash . ’ |
| 11 | I made the brandy sauce for the pud but I think I 've put too much brandy in it and now Paul wo n't let me back in the kitchen . |
| 12 | On the other hand I was afraid that if I made the driver sound too important he might end up under the wheel of a bus instead of behind one . |
| 13 | I made the letter sound as if all was well , and I suppose it was . |
| 14 | I unlocked the passenger door of the Transit for them but I thought it best not to open it for them or offer them a hand up and in . |
| 15 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |
| 16 | Today I met the faith healer Ronnie Hazlehurst recommended . |
| 17 | I met the company commander ; I told him I had brought up some grenades and barbed-wire ; I asked where I was to put them . |
| 18 | Tony and I shared the navigation seat , and right now I was in the back , warm , comfortable and dozing gently . |
| 19 | I 'm very relieved you 're going into action — and you might like to know I reworded the signal Buckmaster was sending , made it , shall we say less positive . ’ |
| 20 | I cruised the opening heat with 10.32 seconds , beating Desai Williams of Canada and Cameron Sharp . |
| 21 | When I heard Richard on the stairs , I emptied the ash tray into a drawer : he never smoked himself and disliked my doing so . |
| 22 | I checked the engine number with Perkins ( whom I might add were extremely pleasant and helpful ) who later found it to be the 4236 , rated at 82 bhp . |
| 23 | Then it happened again and I checked the fuel filter and discovered that is was contaminated . |
| 24 | I checked the car clock and it was twenty past ten . |
| 25 | They were big and I registered the yob uniform — jeans and bomber jackets . |
| 26 | I say to daddy , when I got the money mate and I 've now I 'm now putting ten pound a week for fat Harry . |
| 27 | Melville explains , ‘ The downside got overlooked because of the crusading side , but eventually I got the sex mag blues . |
| 28 | And I got the Engine Room boys in the basement to give me three photocopies of our Romanian friend . ’ |
| 29 | I got the exercise book out of my bag and tore the middle two sheets out . |
| 30 | Malcolm did n't think Chrissie being larruped with Nick 's belt in his shop was good for business So I got the weekday job again . |