Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was then that I knew I could have a fight on my hands : If the manager sided with him and asked me to move a few feet away then I 'd have no choice but to join in the squabble . |
| 2 | At the end of the placement , a ward sister signed my assessment form and then asked me to do the same . |
| 3 | I went into the kitchen as she asked me to have a few words with the ‘ factotum ’ ( 'She seems to be rather taken with your looks ' ) . |
| 4 | ‘ When Terry was coaching Barcelona and I went over to visit him , he asked me to bring a few pounds of good old English pork sausages because he was missing his bangers and mash for tea , ’ he explained . |
| 5 | My heart was beating in my throat making it hard to swallow , my nose was running , my hands were cold and I could n't get enough oxygen , which made me yawn every few seconds . |
| 6 | Unknown to them , she had been one of Tiller 's favourite leading ladies around 1906 , but when the work offers stopped she faced the same bleak future confronting all dancers who feel too old to dance . |
| 7 | Ender , 33 , is unlikely now to produce the kind of speed that helped her break no fewer than 27 world records during her distinguished career . |
| 8 | ( 24 ) He put a hand under her elbow and helped her stumble the few steps she had to take . |
| 9 | ‘ Certainly found it cured a few problems , ’ André finished for her . |
| 10 | She was using condoms and advised me to do the same . |
| 11 | ‘ I noticed he had a few extra bits and pieces on . |
| 12 | Once more the three men buried themselves in the mud and waited until another passing cloud allowed them to advance a few more yards . |
| 13 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 14 | If it was , I reckoned I had a few minutes while he walked back there . |
| 15 | In spite of Paxford 's strong left-wing views , Minto idolized him and allowed him to occupy the same sort of position in her household as John Brown had occupied at the court of Queen Victoria . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought it was food poisoning because I had prepared fish which I had not cooked properly and when the doctor arrived he thought the same way . |
| 17 | It allowed us to do the same , if we wished , with our churches . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ From what I heard you say a few minutes ago , you 're not feeling quite so grateful for the job now . ’ |
| 19 | Philip at first took no notice of what he said ; but when he heard him repeat the same thing several times , and saw he was greatly upset by the horse being sent away , eventually replied : ‘ Are you criticising those who are older than yourself , as if you knew more , and were better able to manage him than they ? ’ |
| 20 | I despaired when I heard Sir Geoffrey Howe , who was Foreign Secretary at the time , speak at the Tory Party Conference in October and heard him repeat the same old stock phrase : Britain will never make a deal over its hostages in Lebanon . |
| 21 | By the time the train reached Ealing Broadway they had been in and out of every car and as the train returned they followed the same routine . |
| 22 | He beckoned her to do the same . |
| 23 | He hit that big vehicle and then he hit me add a few other cars behind me . |
| 24 | The EC decided she had the same right to benefits as a man or a single woman . |
| 25 | This time last year Barbara faced the hard truths of her life in the White House and decided she wanted no more of it . |
| 26 | I urged him to have a few of the young daughters of the gentlefolk before he established the provisional government at the Smolny Institute . |
| 27 | But when he talked he looked the same as he had always done ; eager , intent , screwing up his boneless nose , gesturing with broad , stubby-fingered hands . |
| 28 | I hope you realised they said a few a words on there that 's just been picked up like while I was |
| 29 | He flicked his hand and I thought I saw a few spots of red appear on the shiny white tile beside me . |
| 30 | I thought you wanted the same approach . |