Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asked me how I knew and I told her she 'd taught me what to look for . |
| 2 | He reminded her of her concern when she had heard her father had gone out to lunch the day he died , and he put it to her that she had guessed whom he had met . |
| 3 | In those circumstances , it is unnecessary to express any view on the proper construction of the charter and statutes beyond saying that I have heard nothing which persuades me that the views of Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle and the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 were wrong . |
| 4 | Baker , who described his role in the talks as attempting to impress upon the Iraqi government the determination of the 28-country coalition to eject Iraqi forces from Kuwait , said that he had " heard nothing which showed any Iraqi flexibility whatever " . |
| 5 | Eventually , I did the sensible thing and consulted everyone who had planted trees recently in the neighbourhood . |
| 6 | Suppose my friend turned to other people for help , gathered all the crucial data about myself , consulted everyone who knew me , all my friends and acquaintances . |
| 7 | It 's definitely given me something to aim for . ’ |
| 8 | It has given me something to live for . |
| 9 | But he said : ‘ We 've had talks and Kevin Keegan has given me something to think about . |
| 10 | In Romans 12:3 Paul says , ‘ For by the grace given me I say to every one of you : Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought , but rather think of yourself with sober judgment , in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you . ’ |
| 11 | In his place the cool , detached Dane who had taken nothing she had n't been prepared to give — and given nothing she had n't been prepared to take . |
| 12 | I do n't know whether you 've received my You know , the one my manager just sent me , but I have n't . |
| 13 | I 'm continually dra drained my I seem to get tired , or out of sorts |
| 14 | ‘ They are a breed that will enjoy a long walk and they are excellent car travellers — in the 34 years that I have owned them I have never known one to be car sick , ’ she added . |
| 15 | He did n't add that when he had first telephoned them they had n't wanted to know . |
| 16 | Mark Kelly seems to have impressed everyone who saw him play this preseason , I hope he get 's his chance to prove himself , Ireland could do backup for Dennis Irwin at right back ( cue the flames for mentioning a Scum player ) |
| 17 | If he 's trusted me I 've never asked him to , and I 've never promised him fealty . |
| 18 | ‘ When we 'd caught them they 'd both gone . |
| 19 | We see that he has not simply yielded to the stronger of two pulls , as would be the case if , for example , he never overcame a fear of being uprooted which he judges cowardly , and ever after said to himself ‘ I ought to have gone ’ . |
| 20 | He had picked somebody he thought he could work with smoothly rather than somebody who might try to steal the credit . |
| 21 | ( I 've forgotten who we re-sold him to ) . |
| 22 | I have rung you I have rung you . |
| 23 | If he had been crap , it would n't have mattered who he knew . |
| 24 | As happened in their life together , Felix was humbled for a flash by a sense that she had caught something he had missed : something wild in the air Stephen had brought with him . |
| 25 | You have forgotten everything you know about the Inspiral Carpets . |
| 26 | The troughs are realising you have forgotten something you learned right at the beginning , finding out you have been saying ‘ taste ’ instead of ‘ try ’ for six months , falling asleep over vocabulary , believing you are ready to understand speeches without help and discovering you are not , being corrected by another non-native speaker who has been at it the same time as you , and taking an hour to tell a Lada joke . |
| 27 | The farmer has caused to be severed something which forms part of the land . |
| 28 | The wife of one prominent member of the British community in Seoul said : ‘ We would have hoped she 'd have picked something she had n't worn just a week ago . ’ |
| 29 | Wright , who at 37 chortles about being one of NZ 's so-called ‘ young guns ’ , five years ago probably would have caught one which dropped just in front of him at gully . |
| 30 | The enormity of ‘ one roof ’ had taken her by surprise , and it was perhaps the way that had stiffened her which made her now feel so free , so beyond obligation . |