Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I suspect that the unhappiness at home threw me even deeper into my ornithology , and made me want to spend more and more time with birds . |
| 2 | She makes you see reason — she made me want to smile more and drink less . |
| 3 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 4 | I found I wanted to include more and more of London within one frame . |
| 5 | She found she had torn most of the mourning band away from her sleeve and there was nothing for it but to pull it off entirely . |
| 6 | One knitter I know who found she 'd created this situation ( inadvertently , she admitted ) solved the problem by knitting epaulettes . |
| 7 | However , once the youngest had started school she found she wanted to do much more . |
| 8 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 9 | They found they had to aid each other to achieve coupling , or they would slip apart to achieve nothing . |
| 10 | As hopes for the League disintegrated and the Peace Ballot consensus broke apart , those who followed the logic of collective security found themselves forced to unlearn many of the lessons of the First World War . |
| 11 | Using the ME-6 through a valve combo I found myself trying to squeeze more tone out of all the distortion settings , something I do n't ever remember trying to do with BOSS 's DS1 compact distortion pedal which , for some reason , I assumed the overdrive on the ME-6 would emulate . |
| 12 | And then I 'd I 'd had enough and then he started messing about and he started pushing the boxes down through my strapper then , course that messed the strapper up ! |
| 13 | I told she 's got another twenty eight days . |
| 14 | Well I was trying to draw your attention , right she had pieces of pink paper right that was mi , and on the desk , on our side and on it it had a fe , erm it was she 'd she had received some er goods or something like that there , it was on a piece of pink paper and the signature on it was Houston ! |
| 15 | Corbett noted she had lost some of her arrogance and was more watchful . |
| 16 | But er we did n't I did n't go back , we 'd already we 'd we 'd got some land and er and we 'd set up er pig breeding and er we 'd got about a hundred and twenty strong store pigs at that time . |
| 17 | Each person was given a blanket , but no food ; I suspect the soldiers assumed we had brought some with us . |
| 18 | Alice told herself to stop making these apparently inconsequential statements . |
| 19 | All Nottingham was beautiful and along there 'd got great big flags and they 'd trimmed all Christmas they 'd they 'd sewed all Christmas things on them . |
| 20 | The children themselves appeared , and after a second summer spent playing at the M's farm , and becoming ‘ socialised ’ by contact with that family , it seemed they had made some progress . |
| 21 | I really believed he did love this suede . |
| 22 | Although self educated he had written many books and papers on science , philosophy and religion . |
| 23 | It seemed he had lost all interest in that too . |
| 24 | ‘ What made you want to go this time , then ? ’ |
| 25 | At a rural campaign stop in 1987 , she announced she wanted to address some distant onlookers . |
| 26 | Heather hit the headlines last week when we revealed she had dumped several pairs of her husband 's old socks , only to learn later he had hidden £500 in the sole of one . |
| 27 | And Dot had a sinking feeling because she realized she 'd known all along even though she had n't wanted to . |
| 28 | Suddenly she realized she had loved these last few months . |
| 29 | I had thought it all through ; I reckoned I had covered all possibilities . |
| 30 | Nurses claimed she had waited most of that time for an ambulance to take her to another hospital . |