Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 made me do terrible things , things with animals , for instance . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | My knowledge of history and myself made me ask awkward questions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 : |
| 11 | Once I even caught him buying tinned sardines — with all that fresh fish in the sea ! ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now , for the first time , they found they needed large numbers of new people , with new skills , and they needed them quickly . |
| 14 | They helped him regain selective movements in his arm , and to control the grasp reflex in his hand . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We had to contend with some extremely high winds and found it needed extra guys to hold upright . |
| 18 | But he took charge of men ; organized them ; persuaded or inspired or commanded them to endure incredible things . |
| 19 | then I noticed them exchanging terse remarks every time my man was facing . |
| 20 | A massive security operation has been mounted in the city and United Nations offices in New Delhi have cancelled visits by foreign staff , banned field trips by local personnel and advised them to avoid crowded places . |
| 21 | Spenser certainly found ready contemporary imitators , most noticeably among fellow poets such as Barnabe Rich or Sir John Davies whose interest in Irish affairs also provoked them to write political tracts . |
| 22 | As she ate she cast worried glances up towards the cupboard by the stove , where lay a small sack of potato crisps , some Liquorice Allsorts and two packets of biscuits . |
| 23 | Unhurriedly he studied her sparking green eyes . |
| 24 | Pc Kelly told the jury he questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
| 25 | He told the jury that he had questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
| 26 | Just told her to take light clothes . ’ |
| 27 | I told her to forget bloody implants , what would her babies think ? |
| 28 | Maud said that Leonora Stern believed it represented Victorian women 's fear , or any woman 's fear , of giving birth to a monstrosity . |
| 29 | And then the solicitor asked us to advised us to have certain things amended and Mr had no problem when I told him over the telephone , he just said send it back and we 'll just amend it . |
| 30 | Indigestion made you feel funny things . |