Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | oh yes , we never got to see the fields did we , cos the mist coming out ? |
| 2 | She tried to find the words to tell him she did n't want to make love , to tell him she was totally opposed to such casual male dominance , but somehow they would n't come . |
| 3 | I should have been kitted out a week earlier but they 'd got no shoes to fit me . |
| 4 | ‘ When I bought this house and insisted she move in with me she took the path of least resistance and agreed , although even then if I 'd had the wits to see them all the signs were there that although she relished my role as provider she cared very little for me as a person . ’ |
| 5 | I forgot to tell the men to thatch them . |
| 6 | His wife failed to persuade the judges to include him amongst the prisoners released in the celebrations of the coronation of Charles II , and in her bitterness told them that her husband was being denied justice because he was a tinker and a poor man . |
| 7 | However , the soldiers in Coventry were very reluctant to let him go and threatened to bar the gates to prevent him leaving . |
| 8 | It was a glorious victory when he managed to persuade the grown-ups to let him stay on after his parents had gone back to Manchester . |
| 9 | Her mother tried to persuade the woman who had received the letters to let her talk with this guard ; a man who was actually in touch with her husband . |
| 10 | In his efforts to surrender to justice Jim , 46 , had PHONED the police to tell them where he was . |
| 11 | Oh you had to buy the mats do you ? |
| 12 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 13 | This was at a time when the principle of vaccination had still not been universally accepted , although the Vaccination Act of 1840 had enabled the guardians to provide it for paupers . |
| 14 | Zen preferred to think that some alert recruiting officer somewhere , realizing the appalling threat a disgruntled Gilberto would pose outside the law , had bent the rules to let him in . |
| 15 | ‘ When I had to send the Women to fetch you every step of the way , child — and pick you up every time you fell ? |
| 16 | He 's abducted me six times and Nero had to send the lads to rescue me . |
| 17 | It was Scots who had invented the steam engine , tarmacadam , the telephone , the Dunlop tyre , chloroform , Listerine , penicillin , television ; Scots who had risen to command foreign armies and navies and whose courage as kilted soldiers in the First World War had led the Germans to dub them ‘ the ladies from hell ’ ; Scots , of whom one had helped to found the Bank of England , who had made Edinburgh into one of the great financial centres of Europe ; Scots who had provided Westminster with more than her share of British Prime Ministers ; Scots who with only a tenth of the population of Britain , had yet supplied England with one fifth of her professional classes . |
| 18 | Stirling may have laid down the principles , but it was Lewes who had trained the men to put them into practice . |
| 19 | I had to get the police to get him back . |