Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , when I look at the pictures of the car after the crash , with the passenger-side floor sill and roof crumpled and distorted and my seat moved forward — which helped trap me in the car — I wonder whether we chose the car on the correct criteria . |
| 2 | After the appeal , Duncan McAllister resigned his Army commission while publicity surrounding Christie 's friendship with Anna Moore helped keep her in the public eye . |
| 3 | ANDY SINTON last night revealed he plans to quit QPR — just days after he helped steer them to the top of the Premier League . |
| 4 | If in past decades we waited for the telegram to arrive , it did not lessen the shock , but it did prepare us for the event . |
| 5 | We did make it to a boozer afterwards , though , and we all agreed it was worth making a note of for future reference . |
| 6 | He never did make it to the Academie , but being made international president of PEN , following Francis King , mattered a lot to him . |
| 7 | I did make it to the LSE eventually and , a dozen love affairs and three broken engagements later , into marriage . |
| 8 | Bernier , in his role as imperial surgeon , did make it into the zenana complex , but was not much the wiser afterwards : |
| 9 | As their only match preparation for the Test , it was patently inadequate but it did alert them to the vast difference between the cricketing conditions and environment in the Caribbean and those in Australia and New Zealand where they had performed so impressively in gaining the semi-finals of the World Cup . |
| 10 | So erm anyway they they they did do it in the end . |
| 11 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 12 | However , if we worshipped a goddess who lived on Snowdon and adored strawberries , then non-practical , noneconomic ideas might dictate that we did grow them on the mountain top . |
| 13 | But I really did like it at the end when he got back with his mother and the rest of the family and they had a lovely Christmas with hundreds of presents . |
| 14 | If he did not initially envisage independence for black Africa , it is difficult to believe that he did envisage it for the départements of French Algeria . |
| 15 | I did see him as a six year old child . |
| 16 | I did see it on the |
| 17 | But I did see it on the T V ? |
| 18 | They resented us in the beginning but I think as the years have gone by and they have seen the facilities that a new town has brought to their advantage I think they 're more acceptable now , but they did resent us in the beginning . |
| 19 | I know that my father did use it for a while , lighting the stove with it , but he has n't for a while . |
| 20 | We did miss them in the final , but the other girls responded magnificently , so we got through by 12–11 in the end . ’ |
| 21 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 22 | Yes I know cos you did have it on a few weeks ago . |
| 23 | Conversation had to be minimal , but they did guide me through the maze of one-way streets , diversions and road-works which makes driving in Prague difficult even if there are no other cars on the streets . |
| 24 | The primary entry was a compositional definition , but two of seven further entries did take me to the deep mantle . |
| 25 | I did take you for a couple staying there together , and normally I would have retreated smartly and come back here again , but for what had already happened . |
| 26 | Although it is not a mountain tent I did take it on a high camp with a family group . |
| 27 | Erm , I mean , he wrote a lot , I saw him church on Sunday and I did thank him for the letter |
| 28 | ‘ So you really did change me into a wolf , Mr Bilsiter ? ’ cried Mrs Hampton . |
| 29 | Marsh said : ‘ I do n't blame Kim for being angry — I did leave her in a bad financial situation . ’ |
| 30 | B : I did n't say you did leave it in the car . |