Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he was going again , but when he wanted his clothes to go my mother had cut them up and burnt them ! |
| 2 | He could see that whatever was agitating his friend had pushed him to the limit but he judged it better to let him get it off his chest than keep it bottled up . |
| 3 | ‘ He knew we were watching his mother , but he did not know his wife had told us where he 'd hidden her . ’ |
| 4 | Before Lachlan could free it Hector had tripped him and soused him , for the cold water to bring him to his senses . |
| 5 | Fry feared the worst when he arrived for training yesterday morning to find his wife had called him three times already . |
| 6 | On the day of the overdose Charles and Ann had a row before he went to work , and later Charles came home to find his wife had left him . |
| 7 | A Middlesbrough schoolboy ran away from home and spent three nights sleeping rough when he opened his parents ' quarterly phone bill and found his conversations had sent it soaring to over six times its usual amount . |
| 8 | Blanche recounted what Swod had told her . |
| 9 | The Italian crowd went berserk when they realised their man had lost his title , and showered Benn with coins and rubbish . |
| 10 | Jane realised her desperation had led her to saying something foolish . |
| 11 | The police who had occupied the flat while they made their searches had left plenty of traces of their stay . |
| 12 | In its annual report , published in November , Lautro weighed into the life offices , complaining that the unexpectedly high costs of policing their activities had dented its finances , and beefing that members had not taken the task of compliance seriously . |
| 13 | But if she told them Nina had given her the go-ahead , and Nina discovered the lie , she would be out . |
| 14 | The order came at the end of the summer term and , just as the holidays were beginning , the teacher who was going to replace my father arrived to see what kind of strange specimens he was going to land among and what sort of house he and his family were going to live in . |
| 15 | She took him to herself and loved him in the mystical , supreme way she believed her mother had loved her father ; she gave him everything — her innocence , her youth , her maidenhead . |
| 16 | I told you Janice had got it . |
| 17 | Rosie 's got the stuff again and she did n't get it from him , so I told him Oliver had supplied her . |
| 18 | Matthew Ryan says his girlfriend had warned him there would be a few people to greet him but nothing like this . |
| 19 | But before she could finish his mouth had covered hers and she had no time to analyse the consequences or curse herself for being so weak . |
| 20 | Knowing how much his brother had meant to him and how happy Jonathan 's slow progress towards regaining his health had made him , Julia could hardly say , ‘ I 'm so sorry they 're dead . ’ |
| 21 | We had to repossess what fate had handed us on a plate , and the only way to do this was to claim that we had willed it all along . |
| 22 | She could only feel what Alain had made her feel . |
| 23 | ‘ Right , ’ Bernice said , remembering what Spike had told her about them . |
| 24 | ‘ But they have Antoinette , ’ she ventured , remembering what Marie-Christine had told her . |
| 25 | Suddenly , she was remembering what Jeff had told her . |
| 26 | In slang used at the time , to open your budget meant to speak your mind . |
| 27 | If I 'd said your parents had asked me to come , do you think I 'd have got you to tell me about Ryan ? ’ |
| 28 | He was quite frank about the whole thing , told us H. had given him a fiver to turn up , asked Madge if she wanted to go through with it , which of course she did n't . |
| 29 | Erm by nineteen forty eight no in in nineteen forty seven with the rise of absolute egalitarianism , the policy of narrowing its base had helped them to erm get the peasant support and to get into power but that was no longer necessary erm and the radicalization of land reform it appears had been based upon false premises which had created problems in the countryside and the Party . |
| 30 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |