Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last he reached me and asked me to demonstrate el thwing . |
| 2 | Refreshed and a little more composed after my love tryst , I went back to Richmond where Benjamin asked me to accompany Southgate to collect stores from the Tower . |
| 3 | Governors of schools are the most frequently mentioned group and Circular 6/81 asked them to encourage schools to carry out a review . |
| 4 | So I got I got Friday to pay and that 's ten months . |
| 5 | Only as the car approached them did Ludens think he glimpsed a figure standing in the shade under a tree . |
| 6 | She screwed her eyes up and pretended she saw evening coming on . |
| 7 | The last person she needed was fitzAlan , but an attendant of humble rank would n't matter , if it helped her to obtain permission to go into the town . |
| 8 | For instance , his winged sandals helped him to steal cows belonging to APOLLO , and his wit ensured the stock walked backwards so that no trace of their movements could be found . |
| 9 | I am told that Honest John has taken to phoning up editors of the papers that helped him regain power to plead with them not to be so beastly . |
| 10 | As he made for the door he heard the phone ringing in the hall and when he entered he saw Joe turn from the telephone table towards him , saying , ‘ It 's for you , Martin . |
| 11 | ‘ We used it to heal sword cuts in the Holy Land , ’ he said . |
| 12 | We told them to get out.Three deny they left twins to die in barn fire . |
| 13 | Oh Billy told me to say Billy told me to say something and he rang us . |
| 14 | The Queen 's Press Secretary called a meeting of Fleet Street editors and implored them to let Richard grow up in reasonable privacy . |
| 15 | We told I told Zoe to tell him . |
| 16 | I told her to chew tea leaves to get rid of the smell , but it did n't work . ’ |
| 17 | The sixty-five year old , who also learned to box in the forces , was in his pyjamas — but the muggers still believed he had money to steal |
| 18 | Venables added he felt Sugar did n't know much about football . |
| 19 | The time I spent alone with her … those hours allowed me to gather strength to go on with my deception . |
| 20 | Lynn 's pal Kathy Karges claimed she heard Griffin shout : ‘ I 'm going to burn her house down and burn her down too . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ On our first day here you claimed you left Templecombe to ride your estates . |
| 22 | When there was a sense of unrest and what not , and then first one ship then the other , starts shuddering but before that happened we saw Germans coming off in the rafts and that . |
| 23 | They obtained it using observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Ultraviolet Explorer ( IUE ) satellite . |
| 24 | She mentally steeled herself for the long evening ahead , but , as it turned out , it was n't nearly as long as she had anticipated because towards the end of the evening she heard a sharp knocking on the door , and opened it to find André standing outside , a huge bunch of flowers in his arms . |
| 25 | They should have played a more open game and allowed us to see Bangor scoring lots of goals . |
| 26 | Lewis organized ‘ Beer and Beowulf ’ evenings for his pupils , during which he taught them to chant mnemonics to master the processes of sound-change : |
| 27 | Several times Miss Havisham ordered me to bring Estella to visit her , and of course I always obeyed . |
| 28 | When she returned she found Luney crouched , chin in hands , her back against the cooker . |
| 29 | When we returned we found Womble grooming himself . |
| 30 | By all accounts Hussein was given a cool reception by Bush , who pressed him to impose UN sanctions quickly , offering some financial compensation in return . |