Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want that one did I ? |
| 2 | Given that she 'd nothing in particular to gain , the chances seemed to favour the first of these options . |
| 3 | BZW 's cheapest option — pulling out of Tokyo — is barely feasible , given that it got its TSE membership only last November after much huffing and puffing from Margaret Thatcher when she was prime minister . |
| 4 | But then I got another one sewed it backed on sewed it back on and now I 've got two balls full of sperm ready to come up your Mum tonight . |
| 5 | Some minutes later , the rush having subsided , Rona , bending down to Maggie , said , ‘ Since when has that one called you Maggie ? |
| 6 | She was afraid he would ask her about herself and to forestall this she asked him to tell her about his training and what he hoped for in the future . |
| 7 | To explain an event or state of affairs is to find another which caused it . |
| 8 | And he wants this one did he ? |
| 9 | Not wanting to appear rude we ploughed our way through a bucket between us and then left while we could still walk . |
| 10 | When Bishop Asser says that Alfred severely chastised those who disobeyed his orders , he may be referring to action of a similar sort . |
| 11 | But sterling 's recent weakness has disappointed those who expected it to rise sharply against the D-mark this year . |
| 12 | Now , has any , has any one got anything they want to bring up ? |
| 13 | Now let's say we 've done that we thought there were three people here so you though you were getting a third right . |
| 14 | Okay having done that we discussed what the content of the course was going to be and then I asked you to make a first presentation . |
| 15 | ‘ I got so angry at being accused of something I had n't done that I made it happen . ’ |
| 16 | You had n't written that one had you ? |
| 17 | ‘ When the lease on the Old Bells came free I grabbed it , thinking whatever happened we 'd have a job and home . ’ |
| 18 | She pulled the half-empty cup towards her , and after quickly filling another she passed it to him , smiling at him , saying again , ‘ Sorry . ’ |
| 19 | Before I could do this someone snatched my handbag and made off with it . |
| 20 | And when he had said this he placed himself at the feet of the Bishop , and there before all the people made a general confession of all his sins , and all the faults which he had committed against our Lord Jesus Christ . |
| 21 | When we power dressed we made our bodies look angular and more aggressive , with hard , sharp lines . |
| 22 | ‘ But if you were trying to keep it secret you should have made sure you bribed your porter not to talk . ’ |
| 23 | Mary 's self-seeking dandy courtiers soon made sure she signed it . |
| 24 | She said the Queen and somebody else made sure she knew I was in Famagusta . |
| 25 | But perhaps she ought to have made sure she told him to see his own doctor as soon as he got home ? |
| 26 | Whether dining in the glittering salons of Mayfair or ministering to the sick in Yorkshire or Somerset , Smith reduced all who met him to a state of breathless mirth . |
| 27 | Holmes was addressing those who traced their roots back to the Puritans : ‘ We must not forget that our fathers were exiles from their dearly loved native land , driven by causes which no longer exist . |
| 28 | Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder . |
| 29 | This attitude was kept alive by the strong sense of the permanence of human arrangements in the matter of property , which seems to us of all things the least permanent : gifts to the Church were made to last till the Day of Judgement , and many of the documents in the Canterbury archives invoked God and all his saints on the Day of Judgement to destroy those who violated their provisions . |
| 30 | The declaration committed those who signed it to recognise the independence and sovereignty of other members , to respect human rights including those of national minorities , and to observe existing boundaries . |