Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Married men with children were the group most likely to reply that taxation made them work more hours . |
| 2 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 3 | It did not matter whether they had been far-sighted landowners , former artisans or merchants in feudal society ; what is crucial for Marxists is the belief that their ownership of the new and increasingly predominant mode of production led them to have common interests and goals . |
| 4 | It 's just that somebody asked me to do some heads . |
| 5 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 6 | " You asked me to report preliminary findings as soon as I could , so I 'm giving you a ring , " he said . |
| 7 | Then glancing at Agnes , she said , ‘ Aggie asked me to take some towels across to the house for the people coming in tomorrow . ’ |
| 8 | They asked me to get thirty-six teams , at one point in was fifty-seven but it settled down to thirty-six |
| 9 | She asked me to have two trees planted in the school playing field in her memory to provide shade for children in the summer . |
| 10 | It led me to ponder two questions . |
| 11 | He made me do terrible things , things with animals , for instance . |
| 12 | And she gave me an indulgent look and she said , ‘ I 'm really sorry , the pictures made me feel tender feelings for you , but they just really did not arouse me . ’ |
| 13 | My knowledge of history and myself made me ask awkward questions . |
| 14 | I remember terrible arguments when shopping for shoes — I wanted to have fashion shoes ( high heels , pointed toes ) like my friends , but Mum always made me have sensible shoes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | In fact since Mr Brown made his remarks some parents have rang me to lend their support . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Harpers became worried when their daughters did not return to the family home in Cheltenham and reported them missing 24 hours later . |
| 22 | It helped me do all sorts of things I would n't have done otherwise . ’ |
| 23 | She said she 'd like to walk round the garden while Mrs Hope helped me to get some clothes on . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We 'd been warned to bring thick clothing but now found ourselves stuffing woolly hats into pockets and loosening scarves . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 … |
| 29 | Whipping round , he found himself facing four figures in black military style combat gear and carrying guns and flashlights . |
| 30 | The demand for tuition in mathematics fluctuated so Smith often found himself teaching other subjects such as classics , theology and philosophy . |