Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he was so successful was not because his dancers were technical experts , but because he made them feel Rachmaninov 's passionate love of ‘ music as movement ’ . |
| 2 | So far as the malais were concerned , it also made them like Martinho more , in the political rather than personal sense . |
| 3 | They farmed indulgences for the Popes which , naturally , led them to patronise Luther 's opponents . |
| 4 | On Wednesday last I had an interview with the Archbishop and he asked me to leave Kidlington and go to a vacant parish in Birmingham ( Rednal ) where a friend of mine had died recently . |
| 5 | " Just before we left Iran , the Shah asked me to call Sadat , but the telephone was on strike , the telex also . |
| 6 | Mr asked me to come Wednesday when you went . |
| 7 | ‘ Then he asked me to tell Ince he would definitely be playing in Spain . |
| 8 | Refreshed and a little more composed after my love tryst , I went back to Richmond where Benjamin asked me to accompany Southgate to collect stores from the Tower . |
| 9 | Mention of the Paints quality programme led me to ask Chris Hampson about the overall ICI approach to quality improvement . |
| 10 | Cos it was Kelly that like , said , yeah , you 're my best friend , do you know what I mean , and then made me say Kelly 's my best friend , do you know what I mean ? |
| 11 | Then we were walking back towards the carriage , and as we passed I heard Mr Jonesy say to the preacher , ‘ I 'll give 'im the devil when I get 'im 'ome . ’ |
| 12 | So I got I got Friday to pay and that 's ten months . |
| 13 | The Metropolitan Opera invited me to assist Rafael Kubelík in preparing the same work . |
| 14 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 15 | They chatted about their respective childhoods and , while Patrick had wanted for nothing , he found himself envying Jane 's childhood freedom as the daughter of a groom and maid in service in a large country house just outside London . |
| 16 | It was n't quite true , and Oswin found himself envying Rossmayne his youth and strength . |
| 17 | Ludens found himself watching Marcus , jealously , but with intense curiosity and interest and waiting as for some magisterial dispensation which would mysteriously order his own future , now so completely held in the balance . |
| 18 | He found himself nudging St Ives in the ribs , man to man . |
| 19 | He found himself wishing Alice were with them then , wishing it quite fiercely . |
| 20 | Now he found himself playing Kaa , the deaf snake known for the power of his hug . |
| 21 | On the ramshackle desolate station at Latimer Road he met them dutifully changing cars , but instead of joining the Safeguards , found himself offering Jed and Abelard , his pet Harris hawk , a home at the School . |
| 22 | They were always tiny points that Willi raised , but useful , and Busacher , over the years , sometimes found himself asking Willi 's opinion on a production . |
| 23 | Ramsay found himself attacking Sir John Moubray , whom he knew slightly . |
| 24 | There was an urgency about the way he moved which caught Alice 's attention , but it was her husband who spoke first . |
| 25 | It was in 1763 that an event occurred which led Watt radically to improve the efficiency of Newcomen type steam engines . |
| 26 | Six pound ten Is that what it cost you to buy Willy ? |
| 27 | He used you to get James . |
| 28 | Rain caught herself smiling Oliver 's wistful smile , thinking his irresponsible thoughts . |
| 29 | Jay sprawled on the floor , sipped wine , stopped herself grabbing Lucy 's grabbable ankles , held herself back . |
| 30 | Isobel , who had told nobody about her mother , found herself telling Anna . |