Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A petition to them might bring assistance for a particular project , but their schools received little attention : salaries were simply noted in the accounts and no one stopped to consider whether £10 which had been generous by the standards of earlier centuries might now be inadequate . |
| 2 | His heart stopped beating and doctors who were summoned took 32 minutes to restart his heart . |
| 3 | ‘ You might have guessed it if you 'd remembered that night we made love . |
| 4 | Turning to face Ellie , she smiled , said , ‘ I ca n't thank you enough for all you 've done … ’ and only then seemed to realise that Ellie herself was n't all dressed up . |
| 5 | But having talked his reluctant owner and trainer into running , Davies proceeded to kid and cajole their unpredictable 11-year-old into running the race of his life . |
| 6 | Erm I did feel that Leicester I think if they can s if they can withstand this little bit of pressure now they 'll get a si a situation where they can start rolling the ball again and get their play going . |
| 7 | I 'll tell you who I did see that night I wished I had n't . |
| 8 | Manners retorted that this had taken place in February and Palmerston was in no position to criticize him for acting independently as he had heard that Palmerston himself had instructed the architect to prepare designs in a different style without consulting the House . |
| 9 | Kochen himself mentioned that orders had frozen and users themselves calculated that DEC had lost millions of dollars along with credibility and goodwill . |
| 10 | Nicola 's husband was after all , thought Dexter , the second suspect they had seen that day who had decided to dry-clean the clothes worn at the farewell party . |
| 11 | At first I was a friendly , forthcoming little boy , very ready to talk , perhaps to boast about journeys I had made and things I had seen . |
| 12 | The Committee may have been relieved to hear that in one case at another institution , the Inland Revenue had decided that officers who took round , for sale , firewood that had been chopped by the inmates , were exempt from the need for a hawker 's licence . |
| 13 | You had to understand and project what made your character tick . |
| 14 | After several days of dividing their possessions into things they wished to keep and things which could be given away or sold , they were ready to leave the house for the last time . |
| 15 | I hope that the Government will listen to some of what she had to say and enshrine it in law . |
| 16 | But memories came to him of books he had read and films he had seen . |
| 17 | Now , this was Howard 's first day in the place ( he reminded the Chases and their guests , preparing them dramatically for what was to come ) and he had some vague impression at the back of his mind , left over perhaps from books he had read and films he had seen , that it was at bottom some kind of ecclesiastical institution . |
| 18 | ‘ We drew up a list of things we wanted to do and people we wanted to see , ’ says Bridget . |
| 19 | People wanted to believe that rulers who were denying their people every small pleasure were engaged in orgies of Neronic excess . |
| 20 | Such duties derive from decisions of the Courts of Chancery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , intended to ensure that persons/trustees who held assets or provided services for the benefit of others did so in good faith and for the benefit of those they represented . |
| 21 | But his own reasoning was different : there were questions he wanted to ask and things he wanted to consider before it became common knowledge that MacQuillan had received a threat typed on a newsroom machine . |