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 | 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 . |
| 7 | We tried to keep it as logical as possible and er , there you have it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I just tried to make it really versatile . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They doubted his capacity to rule Iran effectively , and they constantly tried to limit his apparently insatiable appetite for military hardware . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ At the time , you remember , you 'd given me very little information to go on . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She 'd disliked him intensely last night . |
| 20 | He 'd caught her completely off-guard . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She 'd turned it as high and as hard as she could get it to go . |
| 25 | He 'd made it abundantly clear that Hari was of no account in the community , that she could not be trusted to carry any weight with lawyers and the like . |
| 26 | You know that , ’ she replied , and discovered that Travis , more interested in his love-life than hers , wanted to talk about Rosemary and how much he missed seeing her and the fact that he had been so lonesome for her that he 'd phoned her flat several times yesterday evening and , receiving no reply , had realised she must still be at her parents ' home . |
| 27 | And the undulants displayed a conspicuous electric field whenever they moved ; she 'd felt it as static whenever they touched-her . |
| 28 | They 'd got her absolutely terrified I mean she , she could have dropped dead with sheer terror . |
| 29 | With that in mind , her best suit stayed in the wardrobe , and she opted to cover her long shapely legs in a smart pair of trousers , added a pair of walking shoes , and topped it with a shirt and sweater . |
| 30 | I could n't remember the last time he 'd shown me so much affection . |