Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not matter whether they had been far-sighted landowners , former artisans or merchants in feudal society ; what is crucial for Marxists is the belief that their ownership of the new and increasingly predominant mode of production led them to have common interests and goals . |
| 2 | " You asked me to report preliminary findings as soon as I could , so I 'm giving you a ring , " he said . |
| 3 | ‘ He asked me to take good care of them . |
| 4 | He made me do terrible things , things with animals , for instance . |
| 5 | And she gave me an indulgent look and she said , ‘ I 'm really sorry , the pictures made me feel tender feelings for you , but they just really did not arouse me . ’ |
| 6 | My knowledge of history and myself made me ask awkward questions . |
| 7 | I remember terrible arguments when shopping for shoes — I wanted to have fashion shoes ( high heels , pointed toes ) like my friends , but Mum always made me have sensible shoes . |
| 8 | He went in to his bank and got them to print new cheque-books , and instead of signing ‘ N.O. Russell ’ , he now signed ‘ Oliver Russell ’ . |
| 9 | Mr Allen Abramson , a London University anthropologist who has studied initiation rituals , said that most societies used them to mark important developments in a person 's life , and that they often involved pain or privation . |
| 10 | Thus , in Dorchester Finance Company Ltd v Stebbing , two non-executive directors were held to have been negligent in equipping an executive director with signed blank cheques who used them to make unrecoverable loans . |
| 11 | morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece . |
| 12 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 13 | She wore nothing beneath other than cami-knickers , but before they followed her dress he nuzzled her graceful neck , and stroked her striking red hair . |
| 14 | In my study , a white mother , previously married to a full-time skilled manual worker and now living on benefits , described her changed economic circumstances like this : |
| 15 | Once I even caught him buying tinned sardines — with all that fresh fish in the sea ! ’ |
| 16 | He gave her specialist child custody advice and helped her win legal aid for her court battle . |
| 17 | I reached the flat just after so helped her carry clean sheets and towels upstairs as well as my luggage and B. The two bedrooms in the flat are small — ‘ compact ’ in estate agency jargon I expect ! — and the bathroom is very nice with a washing machine in it . |
| 18 | Now , for the first time , they found they needed large numbers of new people , with new skills , and they needed them quickly . |
| 19 | Simon gained valuable site experience which helped him to gain chartered engineer status . |
| 20 | They helped him regain selective movements in his arm , and to control the grasp reflex in his hand . |
| 21 | The centre helped him to get professional help . |
| 22 | Morton said it was only the intervention of the Queen which stopped her leaving public life for good . |
| 23 | In an added postscript , Mr Morton said it was only the intervention of the Queen which stopped her leaving public life for good . |
| 24 | Sentencing the two men , Judge Richard May said he was bearing in mind that the defendants had n't put the money in their own pockets or used it to support expensive lifestyles . |
| 25 | He used it to attack paternalistic officialdom and to articulate demands for social progress : ‘ I 'd tell people to forget their old ordinary life because ultimately , anyhow , we 'll either have a better life than that , or bust . ’ |
| 26 | Agrippa claimed he used it to make sure wine was free of poison , though I do n't think it was possible for Agrippa to die . |
| 27 | It surfaced last year during the trial of Frank Beck , former head of a Leicestershire children 's home , who used it to abuse young people in his care both sexually and physically . |
| 28 | In fact the canopy is deliberately being kept up whatever the weather for ’ The Turn of the Screw ’ , because the company found it has acoustic properties and projects sound out to the audience . |
| 29 | We had to contend with some extremely high winds and found it needed extra guys to hold upright . |
| 30 | The patients were asked how easy they found it to maintain good control . |