Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We asked them to consider two things — what would make a good general gift for any fishkeeper — and what would they actually want to find in their Christmas stocking . |
| 32 | But I asked them to photograph those documents which we found and they do n't want to do it , so that 's up to them . |
| 33 | He went in to his bank and got them to print new cheque-books , and instead of signing ‘ N.O. Russell ’ , he now signed ‘ Oliver Russell ’ . |
| 34 | In fact since Mr Brown made his remarks some parents have rang me to lend their support . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 36 | I realised I wanted another guitar player . |
| 37 | They 'd got ta be secure as you could imagine and er not easily picked , if you follow what I mean and er yes , made I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 38 | The Harpers became worried when their daughters did not return to the family home in Cheltenham and reported them missing 24 hours later . |
| 39 | So the A fifty nine well let me put it let me put another question , does the A sixty one serve a similar function to the A fifty nine ? |
| 40 | It also stated that ‘ 90 per cent of the respondents indicated that their experience in the programme had helped them to see more clearly the forces at work in their lives and had in fact helped them to take more control over their lives ’ . |
| 41 | The creepy brew was dished out to the squad in Barcelona and helped them win four gold and five silver medals . |
| 42 | It helped me do all sorts of things I would n't have done otherwise . ’ |
| 43 | Sister Susan McGuiness F.C.J. Sister Madeleine F.C.J. and Bishop Kevin O'Brien all helped me to answer this question . |
| 44 | I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle . |
| 45 | I think attending an evening class in life drawing helped me overcome this hurdle . |
| 46 | She said she 'd like to walk round the garden while Mrs Hope helped me to get some clothes on . ’ |
| 47 | However , a more careful analysis of methods of work and recreation in the Easter vac helped me to overcome these problems and be more in charge of myself , rather than being tossed about at random . |
| 48 | Mr Allen Abramson , a London University anthropologist who has studied initiation rituals , said that most societies used them to mark important developments in a person 's life , and that they often involved pain or privation . |
| 49 | Thus , in Dorchester Finance Company Ltd v Stebbing , two non-executive directors were held to have been negligent in equipping an executive director with signed blank cheques who used them to make unrecoverable loans . |
| 50 | So that 's variance of reproductive er success and I mentioned I think last week , I anyway , the most extreme examples of this which is elephant seals where in once again a similar population to this , a closely studied population in California , five percent of the males were found to account for ninety five percent of the offspring in one season . |
| 51 | We 'd been warned to bring thick clothing but now found ourselves stuffing woolly hats into pockets and loosening scarves . |
| 52 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 53 | When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’ |
| 54 | morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece . |
| 55 | ‘ Well , some people say he died in the town , always trying to make a broom that would last ; others say he just gave up and wasted away , others that he got somebody else to make the brooms and found somebody to provide better twigs , and got people to sell the brooms in other towns and cities , and hired more people to make more brooms , and built a broom-making factory , and made lots of money and had a splendid house made … |
| 56 | Whipping round , he found himself facing four figures in black military style combat gear and carrying guns and flashlights . |
| 57 | The demand for tuition in mathematics fluctuated so Smith often found himself teaching other subjects such as classics , theology and philosophy . |
| 58 | Soon Alexander found himself teaching fellow actors , with similar problems , what he had learned . |
| 59 | After five years as Chancellor of the Exchequer , and after the lost election of 1979 , he says he found himself wearing this Shirt of Nessus . |
| 60 | We Christians might want to interpret things differently , yet in his masterpiece , ‘ The Wreck of the Deutschland ’ , the Jesuit nineteenth-century poet , Gerard Manley Hopkins , found himself writing these lines : |