Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horrors of war made them want to prevent conflict . |
| 2 | When the ‘ Robert Johnson , Father of the Delta Blues ’ album came out , that was one of the main things that made me want to play slide . |
| 3 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |
| 4 | ‘ She gives new insights , new ways of looking at things … she helped me begin to see pain as gift and grace . ’ |
| 5 | But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’ |
| 6 | It was n't until I had to have a full medical two years later that I found I 'd got hookworm . |
| 7 | They found I did have river blindness . |
| 8 | Any consideration of deaf education should begin with the question of levels of achievement in deaf children ; very often in the past , however , there have been intervening arguments proposed which have directed attention from the central purpose of all educators . |
| 9 | After weeks of private anguish followed by questionable closed-door lobbying of the leading minds of the Royal College of Science , Darwin found himself forced to go public on the issue of evolution for the first time , when both their papers were read at the Linnean Society of London on that momentous July evening of 1858 . |
| 10 | The crowd swirled round them and she found herself struggling to make sense of what he said . |
| 11 | Once again , Defries found herself having to ignore insubordination , this time in order to extract information . |
| 12 | Users also reported they had increased confidence , were more in control of their lives and the programme helped take their mind off their problems . |
| 13 | The French police ran a check on fingerprints , and found they 'd got Puddephat . |
| 14 | She also found they had changed position during sleep and were now lying spoon-fashion , his arm draped over her , her back resting on his chest , her knees bent , her buttocks tucked snugly against him . |
| 15 | But I am sure that if someone found they liked doing chemistry at school they 're likely to find that they like continuing to do it at university , and vice versa . |
| 16 | Chatted with him and found he 'd missed breakfast . |
| 17 | Spanish socialism , meanwhile , was in the early stages of what was to be termed ‘ bolshevization ’ : a shift towards revolutionary positions in which moderates like Prieto found themselves struggling to retain influence and party office . |
| 18 | Others found themselves struggling to plan development projects . |
| 19 | Labs which for years had worked on more classical memory tasks found themselves funded to purchase morris mazes and set up LTP facilities . |
| 20 | Exchanges found themselves having to make material amendments to their rules and practices , in order to secure recognition . |
| 21 | Neither of them mentioned what had taken place outside the school and neither of them would . |
| 22 | Told I have broken Borough policy by recommending custodial maximum on lad . |
| 23 | Hours were spent paddling around in the dark on the Suez Canal until they believed they had mastered handling of the inflatables . |
| 24 | The invisibility that threatened her drove her to perform to attract attention , so she had done well at school , been picked for the hockey and the swimming teams . |
| 25 | We assumed they had taken care of the details and Ayling and Pascoe believed everything was all right . ’ |
| 26 | But the Bank of England signalled it wants to keep base rates held at 101/2 p.c . |
| 27 | Once , if addressed in such a tone , he would have denied his hunger stiffly , even while it stared nakedly out of his eyes ; but now it seemed he had learned sense enough not to climb on his high horse quite so easily and unprofitably . |
| 28 | I mean , I can remember seeing an interview with er , John Geilgud and he 'd he 'd done Hamlet many years ago and er but he said he 'd it was in a totally different way you know , different |
| 29 | But the loneliness appeared to be over when , in October , TODAY exclusively revealed she had wed husband number four during a trip to Norway where she was also reunited with Nicolas after 10 years . |
| 30 | Stated I had done report to justify it and had the expenditure approved — not my fault . |