Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
| 2 | While sending hearty congratulations to the trophy winners , Central Council also offers sincere thanks to all the Branches whose extra endeavours led them to beat their own previous records . |
| 3 | She asked me to give you some good advice . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Benedict asked me to give you this , miss , quiet like . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ She asked me to call her that . |
| 6 | The upshot of this long sessions was that Eliot asked me to send him all the relevant documents , which I did in a letter of 20 May . |
| 7 | Herman asked me to tell them all about Greece — but I had more sense than to do so . |
| 8 | So to keep the peace , Sara made everyone use her own entrance round the side of the house . |
| 9 | There was every possible opportunity and we discussed it ; he was keen but not importunate , which naturally made me love him more and be more inclined to give him what he was so sweetly not insisting on , but something held me back . |
| 10 | It made me control my own rage , but , like you , I kept the information to myself . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's so sad because he 's so quick , so experienced and he is the guy who made me raise my own game to come out of the blocks ahead of him . ’ |
| 12 | Soon after his appointment he went to the north to meet representatives of the non-Burman races , and in effect asked them to state their own terms for participation in a Union of Burma . |
| 13 | ‘ He gave me much time and attention but did not allow me to waste a minute ; he left me fully free to express my feelings and thoughts but did not hesitate to present his own ; he offered me space to deliberate about choices and to make decisions but did not withhold his opinion that some choices and decisions were better than others ; he let me find my own way but did not hide the map that showed the right direction . |
| 14 | Rather than passively absorbing the latest word from abroad , the intelligenty selected those ideas which helped them to address their own problems . |
| 15 | He came and helped me lay it all in which was very nice . |
| 16 | And erm they tasted I mean we all used to have a taste of it and it tasted quite nice ! |
| 17 | He was , and for the sum of £1m , Mr Ames found himself running his own business again . |
| 18 | Structured thought which had as its main attributes three themes of course before you had that you had to have a clear objective which helped you to choose what those three themes were , and why why did we choose three as a based on |
| 19 | And that was the lady 's son involved who told you this ? |
| 20 | As the train drew into Bodmin , Alexandra found herself clasping her own hands so tightly she could feel the seams of her gloves grinding into her flesh and wished , passionately for the visit to be a success , for them to like her house , approve of what she had done — and above all , to leave her alone to do it . |
| 21 | Why had she allowed herself to respond like that , invited him to kiss her that way ? |
| 22 | But as it was , when the generals entered they had it all their own presumptuous way . |
| 23 | The feminist arguments in favour of dialogic forms of language use helped her to clarify her own reasons for employing discursive metaphor and parody , and the gendering by feminists of the notion of the ‘ bad copy ’ enabled her to incorporate her own techniques of mis-representation into a readily recognizable social context . |
| 24 | The guy let him carry his own case and led him through into the concourse where the English driver from the Embassy pool was waiting . |
| 25 | You could give him a book token let him do his own . |
| 26 | She wanted to see him in loons ; she let him buy her those boots . |
| 27 | He met Yves Saint Laurent , then at Dior , and helped him found his own fashion house . |
| 28 | The prisoners who built it left their own rather macabre memento by incorporating a hangman 's noose into one of the rafters , with a nearby door leading into empty space and a four metre drop . |
| 29 | Hobson 's work is mainly remembered because Lenin used it to construct his own , quite distinct , theory of imperialism . |
| 30 | Ben and Elizabeth found themselves doing what many others did in a similar predicament — rather than wait for banns to be read , they married by licence . |