Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when they started to shout these people out shopping , cos everybody stopped to see what the fellers screaming about . |
| 2 | The influence of the ‘ parent ’ is very strong — parents tried to teach you the concepts of life . |
| 3 | We 'd given you the activities to do there so you could find the output of them . |
| 4 | He 'd taught her the tricks of his trade until by her own account she was better at it than he was . |
| 5 | ‘ I came to see what the Romans were doing , ’ I explained . |
| 6 | When wicked women called Charlottes came to tempt them the hermits cast off all their clothes and rolled naked in the patch of nettles behind the pigsty . |
| 7 | I followed Ward 's lead as he seemed to know what the dishes were . |
| 8 | Nowadays , quite a few recognised him , and seemed to bear him no grudges . |
| 9 | I hated to imagine what the consequences of breaching this trust might be . |
| 10 | ‘ And then I began to ask myself the questions all over again . |
| 11 | He began to tell me the difficulties of his life at home , and finally he told me that he had tried more than once to find a home with another brother or sister , but they had persuaded him to return to Cis and Elfed . |
| 12 | We decided to call ourselves the Friends of John McCarthy because that 's what we were . |
| 13 | This did indeed occur , for when she went to embrace him the bodies of the lover and the beloved merged forever , becoming a double-sexed being — a youth with the breasts of a woman . |
| 14 | The photographer offered to sell him the negatives for £30 at the time but he did n't have the money . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's a message from Bill , ’ she said , then proceeded to give him the details . |
| 16 | He asked for and was sent Sketches of Anatomy for Artists ' Use , and struggled to teach himself the complexities of bones and muscles by endless copying . |
| 17 | The invasion forces , sent to end what the reformers had dubbed as an attempt to introduce ‘ Socialism with a human face , ’ captured Dubcek , manacled him and flew him to Moscow . |
| 18 | He came and sat down beside me and offered to show me the sights . |
| 19 | The butcher , who was gentle and warmhearted in spite of the cruel bloodstains on his boater , loaded her basket free with bones for the dog and offered to show her the mysteries of his store room where , shaggy with frost , the sides of meat hung in refrigerated darkness . |
| 20 | An experienced armourer came into the hangar with a group of new armourers and proceeded to show them the wonders of the Washington . |
| 21 | Did show you the photographs I gave you ? |
| 22 | Even if she did tell them the whereabouts of the Grimoire , there was no way they were going to spare her or Julie . |
| 23 | ‘ My cousin did tell you the terms ? ’ |
| 24 | I had taught myself the basics but learning the ‘ wrinkles ’ from someone more experienced saves time and increased the ‘ professional ’ look of garments . |
| 25 | The detective agency she had approached had given her no results . |
| 26 | When he had given her the keys and the egg , and had left her , she first put the egg away with great care , and then examined the house , and at last went into the forbidden room . |
| 27 | She remembered how he had given her the creeps . |
| 28 | Then , too , she had felt rather shy of him since Christmas when he had given her the violets and had tried not to encourage his obvious interest in her . |
| 29 | At last he saw that , if he was ever to eliminate his old habits , then he must refuse to do anything at all until he had given himself the directions . |
| 30 | Alex , who had given me the cigarettes , was Scottish and had been at Lille for three days ; he had deserted from the Military Police in Germany , and thought that French food was nowhere as good as Glaswegian . |