Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 2 | She asked me for nothing more , she did n't want to cause me problems , but I could n't just walk away from her . |
| 3 | Whereas Flynn was at the other end of the scale , for , despite his external charm , he really seemed to care little about anybody 's well-being — possibly because he cared nothing for his own . |
| 4 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
| 5 | He greatly influenced modern methods of excavation : he deliberately studied Pitt-Rivers ' methods and modified them to his own ideas . |
| 6 | Later , Carl scolded me in his own fashion : |
| 7 | These are acceptable , but the witch who , at ‘ by the pricking of my thumbs ’ , held up his thumbs and twiddled them for us all to check out was excessive . |
| 8 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 9 | Founded by David Blechner and Jack Schumann in 1973 , the firm started out as a computer bureau , hiring time on its computers to customers who used them for their own jobs . |
| 10 | It is therefore a bonus for the theory that clay replicators synthesized organic molecules and used them for their own purposes . |
| 11 | It controlled public resources in the manner of a private owner , and used them for its own purposes . |
| 12 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 13 | He contradicted himself within his own question by saying that we have no constitutional ideas and then identifying an area on which we are currently consulting with a view to making constitutional changes . |
| 14 | ‘ One evening in September , ’ he began , ‘ Robert found himself with nothing much to do when he had finished an afternoon lecture on the symbolism in Coleridge 's dream poems — ’ |
| 15 | ‘ One evening in September , ’ he started once more , ‘ Robert told me that he found himself with nothing much to do when he had finished an afternoon lecture on the international monetary crisis . |
| 16 | One evening in September Daniel found himself with nothing much to do after he had finished an afternoon lecture on the international monetary crisis . |
| 17 | Wexford let himself into his own house and the dog Clytemnestra galloped to meet him . |
| 18 | I have drawn you in , and involved you in my own anger at my son 's disobedience . ’ |
| 19 | Her hands fumbled with the bunch of keys as she let herself into her own flat again . |
| 20 | Indeed he seemed to have to keep rushing off to have a word with this person and that ; Helen found herself on her own a good deal of the time , glimpsing him across the room in spirited conversation . |
| 21 | ( Jones , as everyone would have expected , welcomed his vanquished opponent on board with great courtesy , and invited him to his own wrecked cabin for a glass of wine . ) |
| 22 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 23 | He seemed far away from Ruth , in a trance whose nature she could only guess at — but free , she thought , of the despair and anger that beset him in their own world . |
| 24 | The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words . |
| 25 | Seb always felt vaguely uncomfortable when Melody caught him on his own . |
| 26 | Lufbery became obsessed by the urge to avenge his friend , which evidently pursued him until his own death in May 1918 , and he was to be the first American to earn the title of ace . |
| 27 | She raised her hand and stroked his face , and he caught it with his own , turning it over so that it was palm up , and kissing it . |
| 28 | She put her hand on the older woman 's shoulder and Aunt Margaret blindly grasped it with her own bird-claw . |
| 29 | The rulers promptly monopolized it for their own regalia and as a medium for bestowing honour and obligations on their retainers . |
| 30 | Yet the new role of emperor was held in control by Charles who used it for his own ends , which were often of the highest order and extended far beyond mere materialism . |