Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A security guard at a British Gas depot in Wakefield , West Yorkshire , was kidnapped by a gunman and made to drive him about 40 miles , it was disclosed . |
| 2 | I valued his judgement highly , and look back with pleasure to the several visits I made to him-and his equally delightful wife Elizabeth at their cottage in Cambridge where he was a fellow of Churchill College . |
| 3 | Over the years Gambo became quite famous , and found himself dragged from battle to battle and expected to launch his now famous Halfling hot pot into the enemy ranks . |
| 4 | The anti-Semitism that he there encountered made him more conscious of the Jewishness that had not been particularly important to him before . |
| 5 | Could it have been one of the footpads who tried to ambush me earlier that day ? |
| 6 | The old peasant woman whom I visited told me how bad things had been before the Liberation — that she had had 8 children , of whom all but three had died . |
| 7 | But er with the the the er the original the the first one , you had to heat it up with a blowlamp and you had to be very very careful to get it just to the right heat , before if you tried to start it too cold , it would kick back and if was too hot again , it just would n't start . |
| 8 | We tried to keep it as logical as possible and er , there you have it . |
| 9 | I tried to make him as comfortable as possible and with the assistance of a French Commando placed a shell dressing into the large wound in his back . |
| 10 | I just tried to make it really versatile . ’ |
| 11 | You knew from the beginning the terms of the thing , and if you tried to make it more serious than that , you only lost him the quicker . |
| 12 | Throughout his period in office , de Gaulle stuck to this line ( and to the principle of a decentralized Germany ) , although he tried to make it more palatable by recasting it in terms of Germany 's integration within a larger West European bloc . |
| 13 | The conversation was destined to be elliptical , the chief inspector concluded , however hard she tried to make it more direct , and decided to make her questions more oblique . |
| 14 | Later she phoned to tell me how much lighter she felt , as if a burden had somehow been lifted from her shoulders . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , he came to Trantridge once and tried to show me how wicked my life was . |
| 16 | He promised to bring her back some Edinburgh rock — ‘ sweets to the sweet ’ . |
| 17 | They doubted his capacity to rule Iran effectively , and they constantly tried to limit his apparently insatiable appetite for military hardware . |
| 18 | Judith was well aware of the economics involved in the provision of kosher meat for Cork 's forty or so Jewish families , but it was worth submitting to a lecture on it from her mother if it helped to make her more amenable . |
| 19 | ‘ At the time , you remember , you 'd given me very little information to go on . |
| 20 | He 'd given her so much and she would never forget him , but she would never confuse what they had shared with that elusive emotion — love . |
| 21 | ‘ After he 'd given you how much ? ’ asked Joe . |
| 22 | It was founded in imitation of Mussolini by the improbable figure of Miss Rotha Lintom-Orman , a young woman who was the daughter of a major , the granddaughter of a field-marshal , and whose clothes seemed to emphasise her more masculine qualities . |
| 23 | Carrie was afraid at first that Albert would despise such a babyish pastime but he seemed to enjoy it as much as Nick did , shouting with laughter when he tripped over bumps in the ice and not wanting to stop , even when she said it was time they were going . |
| 24 | She 'd disliked him intensely last night . |
| 25 | He 'd picked her up first ? ’ |
| 26 | He 'd caught her completely off-guard . |
| 27 | Tom laughed , of course , and she did n't know if she was pleased or angered that he so often seemed to find her so amusing . |
| 28 | Children seemed to find us particularly intriguing , and would gaze unselfconsciously , with the characteristically grave , uncommitted regard of the young , before being yanked away from the kerb by their mothers . |
| 29 | For himself , he did not find the piece as graceful as could be wished , but Alice seemed to find it most enjoyable and had giggled over its charms ever since . |
| 30 | She 'd turned it as high and as hard as she could get it to go . |