Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] the [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got the ankle twisted in a tackle , and it 's badly swollen , ’ said Blair , who was last night on crutches . |
| 2 | ‘ I got the hell beat out of me and I 've been a Mexican ever since . ‘ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I amused myself for about a month doing that , but when I got the cast taken off I found it uncomfortable to play conventional style — so I 've always felt right at home playing over the neck . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Instead I found the field stripped of strawberries |
| 7 | I found the door unlocked as I had given my master the key before I left ; the light was poor but I could see nothing had been disturbed so lay down on the bed , pulling the curtains around me . |
| 8 | I found the church locked when I arrived at four thirty . ’ |
| 9 | I found the file sandwiched in between two others , sealed , of course . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | However , I recognised the case made in Committee by the Opposition on an amendment seeking to restrict board members to serving no more than eight years . |
| 12 | I slammed the door shut behind me , but found no bolt on the inner side . |
| 13 | I slammed the file shut and got on the blower right away . |
| 14 | I suffered the torture known as ‘ Le Perroquet ’ — ‘ The Parrot ’ . |
| 15 | He assured the drunken Bowyer that he would always be welcome at Templecombe and I recalled the friendship formed between Pilate and Herod . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I enjoyed the article entitled Run of the Mill in the June issue of Dogs Today . |
| 18 | So up until then , being very cautious and a canny Scot , I hung the instrument wrapped in a piece of rag outside the window of my bed space on a nail , just in case somebody came round whilst we were either at school or the workshops . |
| 19 | Mrs Thwaites and I followed the path made in the snow by the animals and managed to get out of the dale all right . |
| 20 | This created two new corners , which I treated in the same way , and so on till I achieved the shape marked out . |
| 21 | I pulled the door shut and almost ran to the front door and into Langdon Crescent garden , where I stood for five minutes breathing in the fresh air . |
| 22 | I knew the Earl worried about the growing distance between himself and his children . |
| 23 | ‘ I saw the car come up the drive and then turn towards the Rectory . |
| 24 | Personally I thought the fears overdone , but nevertheless I sought to find a way of transferring the operation to the private sector which would minimize the risk of industrial action . |
| 25 | I thought the referee dealt with the situation sensibly . ’ |
| 26 | Early Dynastic rulers must have drawn booty or tribute from the silver mountains for centuries before Sargon I sent the expeditions mentioned in documents recovered from Amarna , Assur and Boghazköy . |
| 27 | I mean that I attended the lectures given at Cambridge by Dirac . |
| 28 | Yeah I had the bones broke |
| 29 | ‘ I had the building searched , but I did n't find Elvis . ’ |
| 30 | But I had the amp set with the treble full on , the presence full on and the bright switch kicked in before I could get close to what I 'd call a classically nasty Telecaster bridge pickup tone . |