Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [art] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the weather , however , 17 of them braved the elements to play the one round Stableford competition . |
| 2 | I still thought it meant the truck was used for hunting but I asked the labs to check her clothing just in case . |
| 3 | I asked the police to ring her father and ask him to come and collect her from school . |
| 4 | In a modest attempt to amend the damage accumulated over centuries by this pernicious little fiction , I asked the children to give me the Other Version , particularly Eve 's , but Adam 's or God 's as well if they preferred . |
| 5 | ’ Then I asked the children to write about some experience they could recall that had something physical about it . |
| 6 | After going a couple of hundred yards over open ground , the road entered very thick forest , and here I made the men walk in front while I brought up the rear . |
| 7 | The road pitched and banked over and around waves of sand and , periodically , I met the workmen busy with their shovels . |
| 8 | In vain I sought the ducks penned in safety from the foxes … . |
| 9 | I checked the backstreets to see if the Sierra was still there . |
| 10 | No I got the cakes Does it look alright Paul ? |
| 11 | Well almost I got the cupboard done and I got the tiles lying by the side of the hob , but they have n't yet been cut to fit erm and glued down but one of these day 's he 'll get around to it . |
| 12 | In the end I got the men to install fairly standard white shelving instead . ’ |
| 13 | The first problem was to work out the correct overall send and return levels , but with the Quad-FX 's input and master volume set on unity gain I found the processors worked at roughly the same settings anyway , so there was n't much need to tweak the levels . |
| 14 | As an 11-handicapper who does not play quite as often as she would like , I found the clubs gave me more consistency and greater ‘ feel ’ . |
| 15 | I found the pages devoted to soy pastes and fish sauces particularly useful . |
| 16 | I found the umbles chucked away in the bushes . |
| 17 | On my return I found the doors had been forced . |
| 18 | When I started to make it up to my horror I found the stripes did not match up front and back . |
| 19 | Indeed in one practice I visited the patients held a Tupperware party to raise money to ‘ help ’ their practice — believing that fundholding meant that the practitioners had to raise their own funds . |
| 20 | With it I wooed the children to learn by setting out to entertain them . |
| 21 | I helped the girls to wash some of the sherds and then wandered down to my favourite spot by the river . |
| 22 | I used the programs supplied with the Mega Disk to place the files on drive D. The Install program tells you where it 's putting them , but what if you did n't notice ? |
| 23 | I stopped the police banging down your door earlier out of respect to you . |
| 24 | ‘ I told the players to concentrate on organisation and defence . |
| 25 | ‘ When the first bell went and I saw the way Lennox was going after him I told the guys watching with me that Ruddock had better watch for that left of Lewis 's or he 'd be counter-punched with the right and get himself knocked out — and that 's exactly what happened . ’ |
| 26 | I told the servants to keep it a secret . ’ |
| 27 | I commanded an officers training corps . |
| 28 | Could I just say , that erm , the record of the erm issues of re-grading , longer hours , and so forth I noted the comments made on it . |
| 29 | I opened the lockers to pull out the kit but found that the top had come off a water container and half a gallon had spilt , soaking the tea bags and bursting the envelope which carried my documents . |
| 30 | I heard the guns go off . |