Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The combination of the sophisticated impresario with his driving ambition and the outspoken Newcastle woman with her earthy language and manner to match , made them appear a strange couple . |
| 2 | Until the Annan Committee knocked BBC and ITV heads together and made them run a joint system of audience measurement , ITV relied mainly on counting the number of sets switched on and the BBC used sample surveys and audience ‘ diaries ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When she started flying her parents asked me to keep a watchful eye on her . |
| 5 | 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 ' ) . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ She made me walk straight and tall again , made me feel a complete man with her excellently designed footwear , ’ he had boomed . |
| 8 | It made me take a good look at what I really wanted out of men and dating . |
| 9 | ‘ They made me look a risky proposition until Terry Butcher gave me a chance at Coventry . |
| 10 | Apparently the cleaner overheard them having a tremendous row . |
| 11 | On 18 August it met with the Health Authority 's officials and asked them to conduct a public health survey which it would pay for , mainly to reassure the public that , although the EC limits for aluminium had been exceeded over 500 times , and those for sulphate , copper , zinc and lead had also been broken , there was no long-term harm . |
| 12 | One hundred ladies kindly volunteered and eight weeks later I asked them to complete a lengthy questionnaire . |
| 13 | They realised I told a better story when I was composed . |
| 14 | ‘ There was really no need — I realised I had a sweet and cheeses , you must have been starving . ’ |
| 15 | Most will have started yoga after watching it on television or because a friend invited them to join a local group . |
| 16 | ‘ In the end Becky helped me to choose a long beaded dress with a side-split and see-through sleeves . |
| 17 | But it helped me to gain a deeper appreciation of what is involved . |
| 18 | ‘ It stopped me having a normal childhood . |
| 19 | Never having been aboard a ship before , she found she had a natural liking for the sea life : she suffered no seasickness at all , and as João had sent an excellent chef to cook her meals , she dined well and developed a taste for the green wine of Portugal . |
| 20 | Dr Nick Walters , exercise physiologist at the University of Westminster , tested Margaret on his Futrex 5000 computer , which analyses body muscle , fat and water , and found she had a fat proportion of 28 per cent — well above her recommended level of 22 per cent . |
| 21 | Kevin Murray , administration manager of the hostel , said ‘ The idea came from Carolyn who proposed we adopt a special school and Warren School was the most local . |
| 22 | Says Payne : ‘ We found we had a tremendous amount in common , a real northern European outlook with people from the Pacific rim , Siberia or the Russian heartlands . |
| 23 | ‘ Allowing for the generation gap , we found we had a surprising amount in common . |
| 24 | MIKE RAFTER has been the white knight for Bristol Saracens , the Gloucestershire Division Two club , who invited him to halt a rapid downhill slide two years ago . |
| 25 | During his years in London Rambush expanded his knowledge into the field of chemical processing , continuing his studies at Battersea Polytechnic under Professor J. W. Hinchley , who invited him to become a founding member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in 1922 . |
| 26 | When Tom Webster drew him wearing a knee-length sweater , he ensured that , thereafter , all his sweaters were oversized . |
| 27 | A brief moment of the winter which pursued her sent a scampering chill through the warm place . |
| 28 | And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself ! |
| 29 | But when Patrick found him scoffing a large tea in the Royalbion marquee that was not the reason for his jubilation . |
| 30 | The children helped him find a better cure , too . |