Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I cared about us making love , ’ he said , raking both hands back through his thick dark hair and looking up at her . |
| 2 | In the same way , they took care to spend no more time together than the daily round of school life made appropriate , but the simple knowledge that there was now one person in the small , enclosed community who cared for him healed Richard 's wounded spirit . |
| 3 | Whenever an opportunity arose for him to spike evidence or arguments favourable to the defence , he did not hesitate to do so , even at one choleric moment telling Nicky not to be stupider than he was ; and his summing-up was a summing-up for the prosecution . |
| 4 | Alejandro shouted after her to do turns at the canter . |
| 5 | ‘ It never occurred to me to expect payment , ’ she repeated . |
| 6 | They were the people who were already ‘ suffering greatly from having some 57,000 boat people there and more and more and more would come when the season came for them to leave Vietnam . ’ |
| 7 | A third letter , some nine months after he had left home in Glasgow , told of him having joined.a cargo ship as an ordinary seaman . |
| 8 | Ellen darted past him to join Isabel behind the table . |
| 9 | Dan , Daniel was alright , he came with me to fetch Emily |
| 10 | Jeanne came with him to accompany Bertin 's sister-in-law , Germaine Meyer , who was later to marry Survage , on the violin . |
| 11 | Somehow the expanse of green and white cloth cascaded from her trembling hands towards the ground , and as she muttered furiously at it under her breath he looked round and saw her . |
| 12 | ‘ One day a letter came from him asking permission to come home . |
| 13 | At that moment , the determination came to me to kill Victor Frankenstein as well as his creature . |
| 14 | And those New England mountains seemed to me to give evidence of a human success so meagre and transitory as to be more desperate than the desert . ’ |
| 15 | He was at the garden party on Guy Fawkes Night in 1938 when the honourable member for Stockton , Harold Macmillan , burnt Chamberlain in effigy , and he earned the thanks of Bob Boothby later the same evening when he happened upon him making love to Macmillan 's wife against a turkey-oak tree — and went deaf and blind . |
| 16 | I lived with you travellin' folk when I was a young 'un . ’ |
| 17 | Three days after the French were released Joelle Kauffman arranged for me to see Normandin and I flew to Paris , with Mary , to see him . |
| 18 | The Ballet Club paid a second visit to Johannesburg in July 1944 , and John wrote to Hanns , exclaiming jubilantly that ‘ We arranged for me to have meals at the Carlton , so I have been dining in style this week ! ’ |
| 19 | Roquelaure arranged for him to visit DGSE headquarters on the boulevard Berthier ring road . |
| 20 | Aged fourteen , he was apprenticed to Galloway & Sons , a London engineering firm : when it failed , Faraday arranged for him to join Nasmyth & Gaskell at Patricroft , near Manchester . |
| 21 | Three years later , in 1638 , Laud arranged for him to become Rector of Uppingham , in Rutland , and a chaplain to King Charles I. It was at this time that Taylor made his first marriage , to the sister of one of his Cambridge pupils . ’ |
| 22 | The ropes began to cut into her flesh , as she wriggled against them to avoid cramp . |
| 23 | Hundreds walked behind them holding hands . |
| 24 | And King Bucar and they who escaped with him hoisted sails and went their way , and never more turned their heads . |
| 25 | The social worker never talked about me getting Stephen back . |
| 26 | Well , you talked about us having prisoners , did n't you , well there was a camp not far from us , got these Italian prisoners to come and do the ditching . |
| 27 | A little later this Mexican boy who worked for us took Russell 's horse around to the stable . |
| 28 | ‘ The time was right before the season started for us to part company and I 've never regretted it and neither have Norwich . |
| 29 | Shadow home affairs minister Alun Michael called on him to publish part of a Home Office review of the organisation of police authorities . |
| 30 | Ann thought it unseemly to kiss her husband in public , but she had no such reservations as far as her son was concerned , and hugged him tight , choking on her words as she whispered to him to take care of himself . |