Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had always been pleased when she had called on him in London but made little effort to visit her in Carshalton . |
| 2 | I got that , got that Eric thought it was a lion . |
| 3 | I half expected some floosie to open it but no , it was Charles . |
| 4 | ‘ The loon Yarrow made another attempt to have me employed today . ’ |
| 5 | So I 've done all this , I 'm quite a handyman in the house , so we talked about it at the cen at the centre here and we actually asked another guy to do it , who 's erm sixty odd and he comes in here everyday er and he was willing to start it or to run it . |
| 6 | Nkrumah announced another referendum to enable him to dismiss the judges and also to establish a one-party state . |
| 7 | Her new husband , Andrew Leach , made some attempt to wean her from alcohol . |
| 8 | And plenty got this egg wash you see . |
| 9 | You got some change have you ? |
| 10 | What , got some soap have you ? |
| 11 | If we found some human remains it would be an extraordinarily important site . |
| 12 | She said people did not have to view the show if they were likely to find it offensive and while she found some photographs disturbing they should still be shown so people could form their own opinions . |
| 13 | ‘ So , Isabelle found another fool to marry her in England . |
| 14 | I used many things to make them cane and dowling and metal coathangers and aluminium tent-poles , and paper and plastic sheeting and dustbin bags and sheets and string and nylon rope and twine and all sorts of little straps and buckles and bits of cord and elastic bands and strips of wire and pins and screws and nails and pieces cannibalised from model yachts and various toys . |
| 15 | In the Preface he described the superstitions of the Irish peasantry and the rigid hold on them of the Roman Catholic priests , who used all means to confine them to the Irish language , lest if they learnt English they might converse with members of the Church of Ireland or attend its services . |
| 16 | And when she tried several times to pin him down at the office , invariably , as if he were telepathically aware of her intentions , he was elsewhere . |
| 17 | Not a bad taste , but not got much content have they ? |
| 18 | Further , those who requested such facilities wanted them for others — those who had been ‘ mollycoddled ’ by their parents and by their teachers in special schools — rather than for themselves . |
| 19 | Charlie 's office was small and poky and lightless and overcrowded , but the number of possible hiding places was limited and it seemed that she-d tried them all . |
| 20 | Alan Kimble slammed that home to make it Cambridge 1 ; Swindon 0 . |
| 21 | You think the girl knocked him off , and then hired some help to get him out of there ? ’ |
| 22 | If you have already posted a renewal or a new coupon since we prepared this letter thank you . |
| 23 | When the apostles wrote letters to their friends and colleagues they were always trying to pass on words of encouragement and the people who received these letters regarded them as precious sources of information , that is why many of the letters of Paul or John or Peter have been carefully guarded and handed down to ourselves . |
| 24 | The Shah rejected more advice to kill him , but Khomeini was arrested and banished to Turkey . |
| 25 | I poured out some ouzo and added enough water to make it go milkily opaque . |
| 26 | After the dollar fell to another post-war low of ¥109.2 in New York , the Federal Reserve intervened several times to prop it up . |
| 27 | Marwood , the League 's leading scorer with 224 points , added both goals to make it 18-12 . |
| 28 | His mother was a niece of his father , and young Frank claimed this relationship made him his own great-uncle . |
| 29 | ‘ She telephoned this morning to say I might expect to hear from you . |
| 30 | ‘ When you arrived this morning did you see Miss Garland at once ? ’ |