Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought he should acquire a sober ‘ Anthony Eden ’ black Homburg hat and asked me where to buy one . |
| 2 | So I did n't know anything about it you know , till somebody asked me Well asked me really , Mr 's going away is n't he ? |
| 3 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |
| 4 | He asked me not to misquote him . |
| 5 | The thing that 's teasing my mind is that I 'm fairly sure he asked me not to tell anyone he 'd been there . ’ |
| 6 | Well , to tell you the truth , your boys asked me when had I last seen my father alive and I said Friday instinctively , and then by the time I 'd realized my mistake , it was all written down , and , you know , I thought if I changed it , that 'd only create trouble . ’ |
| 7 | He got me so riled I lost a race this afternoon I should have won . |
| 8 | At this time still a regular smoker , I made one film which made me drastically change my views about it . |
| 9 | So it looks awfully fresh the wretches made me almost squashed it . |
| 10 | When the war ended he sought me out to offer me choice of jabs ; I chose his Transport Wing in Germany , on loan to Sholto Douglas then the C-in-C Germany , to operate the air transport requirements for Germany in the early days after the end of the war , with aircraft baked in the UK . |
| 11 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 12 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |
| 13 | If Joseph wanted Sabine Jourdain dead , as Barbara Coleman says , then he probably got someone else to do it . |
| 14 | I got someone else to follow her . |
| 15 | We have all come across women who had children by accident , because they thought it was the thing to do , or because they wanted to qualify for Council accommodation , and we have all come across women who expected someone else to do everything for them . |
| 16 | I advised and charged them not to stretch themselves beyond their line by speaking out of the [ local ] society , or by fancying themselves public teachers . |
| 17 | At the special Cabinet , and curiously for a Prime Minister who wishes to get his own way when his colleagues are at best perplexed , he invited everyone else to give their own views before himself intervening . |
| 18 | It took several miles on the bus and a lot of questions still to be answered outside his front door before he invited me in to meet his mother . |
| 19 | I mean my sister phoned me up tell her friend died in the . |
| 20 | Yeah , she phoned me up to ask me what she should do about Beryl . |
| 21 | ‘ Doone phoned me yesterday to say he 'd been to the boatyard and taken away some objects for which he would give me a receipt . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I have it on good authority that when Satan left , Christ did it but then changed them back to show he would not be tempted to eat . |
| 23 | The reason why our homes were so cold was that the people who designed them never took our severe winter climate into consideration . |
| 24 | so I described them how to do it , perched on our knees , looking down , no sound without a script , it was just absolutely ludicrous |
| 25 | And I was fortunate : no one ever stopped me either to ask me for my identity card or to see what I had in my bag . |
| 26 | I 'll eat anything provided someone else gets it ready . |
| 27 | So he found himself unexpectedly spending his holiday in the little port of Cassis . |
| 28 | The actor Paul Blake and his wife Kate , who are friends of ours , have two young daughters and Abi and I found we really enjoyed their company . |
| 29 | The thought made her feel slightly better , but she still found herself tentatively letting herself in , relieved in a way that André was a bit under the weather . |
| 30 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |