Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For non-metals if you try to hit them and beat them into sheets or if you try to stretch them you get ? |
| 2 | He again went to see them and persuaded them to accompany him to a meeting at the police station with Mr McLean on August 24 . |
| 3 | Someone from a hostel in London came to see me and said they would have me , so when I went to court in Sheffield the judge decided to put me on bail for four weeks , on condition that I stayed at the hostel and that I did n't drink , and also if I attended the Jules Thorn psychiatric unit , which is part of St Pancras Hospital , for a ten-day assessment . |
| 4 | He said he 'd flown over urgently to see me and asked me to come to the Cheshire Cheese , that pub in Fleet Street , at ten o'clock that night . |
| 5 | My mum come up to see me and asked me what the bandage was for and I told her I 'd burnt myself . |
| 6 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 7 | When I was in police custody the doctor came in to see me and gave me some tablets and I 'm asking you for some now . ’ |
| 8 | I offered my thanks to the interviewer for seeing me and shook his/her hand at the end . |
| 9 | One morning , as we were sailing round the Cape of Good Hope , they attacked me and tied me up . |
| 10 | When machines went funny you just oiled them or prodded them or , if nothing else worked , hit them with a hammer . |
| 11 | Poets had found their way over ( and sometimes back , to tell the tale ) ; so had a good number of priests over the centuries , and hermits , meditating on their essence so hard the In Ovo enveloped them and spat them into another world . |
| 12 | Afterwards , he got me and asked what I was doing in the doorway with Symington . |
| 13 | This time they were sent to Alfred Bowles of Ipswich and bear the inscription " Alfred made me and hung us all " . |
| 14 | Ben looked into her eyes and she lowered them and turned her head away . |
| 15 | Blake could n't say whether the creatures were pursuing them or had their own sinister reason for haunting this part of London . |
| 16 | She had originally intended to resell them but found she had grown attached to them and had built shelves in her sitting-room . |
| 17 | He saw them in terms of the hours of training he had given them and regarded their departure as something to be listed in the debit columns . |
| 18 | The horses moved in their stalls as she passed them and threaded her way to the ladder . |
| 19 | The term Earth Mysteries covers not just ancient sites but also the people who visited them and found them significant in their lives . |
| 20 | She hooked me and took me in tow . |
| 21 | The whistle blew at 4.45 am and at intervals until six , dismissed them and summoned them from breakfast and dinner , and finally in the evening at 5.30 pm . |
| 22 | They 've melted them , dissolved them , cracked them and fished them out — now they 're going to attack them with an electric whisk . |
| 23 | But I soon felt calmer when he came to meet me and kissed me . |
| 24 | In a book by Rosenau , I saw drawings of buildings designed by Etienne-Louis Boullèe that both moved me and astonished me . |
| 25 | Aunt Margaret stroked them and adored them and fastened them round Melanie 's neck . |
| 26 | I was scared to cross the stepping-stones and it was turning back to encourage me that caused her to slip . ’ |
| 27 | It was n't fair , just or right for the Signora to come before the hour appointed ; she should have been admitted by Giovanna herself and the keys should have remained hanging on their appointed hook ; the other set being in the pocket of Giovanna 's overall from which she now drew them and held them up making it clear that they would be relinquished only upon her death and then only into the hands of Signor Kettering . |
| 28 | ‘ It will certainly release a lot of the pressure that has surrounded them and made their personal lives very difficult . |
| 29 | Tiny figures with wands of fire were milling about the canalside , hopping from boat to boat , their shadows leaping up the faces of the buildings on the other bank as the fleeting light caught them and threw them about . |
| 30 | Let me go ! ’ and flung her hands out and he caught them and held them firmly . |