Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Thanks to what you told me about Lisa I now realise , perhaps for the first time , just how much influence people in the music world can have , albeit quite unknowingly , over impressionable youngsters . |
| 32 | and the new baby , remember when I told you about Andrew my cousin , my favourite cousin they reckoned I 'd fancied him ? |
| 33 | and the new baby , remember when I told you about Andrew my cousin , my favourite cousin they reckoned I 'd fancied him ? |
| 34 | He made her feel incredibly feminine ; the merest touch of his fingers transported her to ecstasies she had never before experienced . |
| 35 | She grilled him about women she saw in hotel lobbies , as if he knew each one personally . |
| 36 | The Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society advised him to mortgage his home and invest the capital to give him and his wife an income . |
| 37 | She runs a sort of company for readings and uncostumed actings of unusual plays , and when I told her about Unisoculous she said she would put it on . |
| 38 | when I spoke to about it she said that you told her to hand it over to my department cos it was a national account |
| 39 | But when they were sitting at the oval table in the dining-room , eating Mrs Purry 's admirable steak and kidney pudding and drinking a full-bodied Burgundy , Penelope found herself next to Rupert , who talked very pleasantly about Italy , remembering that Penelope was shortly to visit Rome with the parish party , and told her of things she ought to see and restaurants where she might eat . |
| 40 | As Joseph was clearly incapable of driving the cart , Gabriel drove it to Weatherbury himself . |
| 41 | He also considered an argument based on freedom of speech , but rejected it for reasons which I consider in the next section of this judgment . |
| 42 | He told us of families who had built ramshackle premises on unused land only to see them bulldozed . |
| 43 | As we became well known , people kept things for us or told us of toys they had spotted . |
| 44 | If someone asked you in French you might have to think about what tasse du thé means before you visualised a cup of tea and said ‘ Oui , s'il vous plait ’ . |
| 45 | Van Gelder produced a sheaf of photographs and handed them to Hawkins who flipped through them quickly , and then , more slowly , a second time . |
| 46 | And each took half a dozen items dear to both and secreted them in places their childhood dramas had singled out as being adult-proof . |
| 47 | By 1876 the growing interest in his metallic asbestos packing encouraged him to patent it and found the Beldam Packing and Rubber Company , which later became Beldam Crossley . |
| 48 | In it , she confronted him with evidence she 'd unearthed of a conspiracy against her and accused him of being behind it . |
| 49 | He handed it to Massingham who took off his own gloves and ran it through his hand . |
| 50 | He signed the despatch with his name and rank , then handed it to Blasendorf who promised it would be delivered as swiftly as his horses could cross country . |
| 51 | The Fourstars ' lawyer showed it to Medicare which finally relented . |
| 52 | I had worked out a peace formula that I thought might be acceptable , but when I showed it to Wilson he scoffed at it as being altogether too legalistic and proceeded to provide me with a formula of his own . |
| 53 | He took the piece of paper away with him , the name filled in above the pre-signed certificate , and showed it to Barnett who was pleased and who believed that it was worth having . |
| 54 | Holly had felt pleasure , allowed it to cocoon him . |
| 55 | Armed with guns stolen from gunshops , they revenged themselves on creditors who had ‘ restrained ’ their property . |
| 56 | I got one for English I did , I did |
| 57 | It 's a luxury though , I mean you know , you do n't need it , the fact that we got one for Christmas it was very nice , but |
| 58 | I got one from Mars I think . |
| 59 | When she followed him to Italy I believe she had already made up her mind to leave us and go to him . |
| 60 | She cared for religion as little as I for politics — less , for politics painfully makes itself heard and-felt ; twice it came near to breaking up my life , even though I defied it to interest me . |