Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comparing him to Demosthenes , in whom oratory compensated for a speech impediment , Storr juxtaposes two key scenes : young Winston being pelted with cricket balls and hiding behind a tree , and a slightly older Winston terrifying his friends ( and all but killing himself ) by jumping 30 ft off a bridge . |
| 2 | And then of course the there were some a lot of them mass produced then there was the mass producer come in then . |
| 3 | In 1759 some of the greatest Portuguese nobles whom Pombal regarded as threats to his position , the Duke of Aveiro , the Marquis of Tavora , the Marquis of Alorna , were accused of conspiring against the king , tortured and in some cases broken on the wheel . |
| 4 | ( ‘ No-one bas done anything as awful as me ! , |
| 5 | I mean erm them solicitors sent a letter to him we had a copy come here but erm , he 's got ta pay her fifty pound a week . |
| 6 | The Christian mind which he revered was then and ever after the mind of William Temple , whom Hoskyns thought to be able but superficial . |
| 7 | ‘ Why has you got all them words written under them ? ’ asked George . |
| 8 | The worst difficulty came with his brother Frank , whom Ramsey thought to be the cleverest person he knew . |
| 9 | We can be more definite about Artemidorus of Ephesus and Posidonius of Rhodes whom Strabo treated as his most authoritative sources for Spain and Gaul . |
| 10 | I want them sheds cleared out cos I want to get that garden sorted out for the summer |
| 11 | In his will , written in his own hand , he donated some of his books to Oxford University and bequeathed to his servant , Thomas Painter , ‘ all my books and papers of Arithmetic and Geometry in English and all my copies written and printed and all mine Instruments of Geometry ’ . |
| 12 | Personally though I do n't mind hefty boots and would prefer to feel the greater support around my ankles offered by other boots in the High Country range . |
| 13 | I will get my guitar mended . |
| 14 | There was a sickening lurch as my chute opened and my harness tightened round me so that I could hardly breathe . |
| 15 | At 8.45 I arrived at school my heart filled with delight as I stood amongst pupils in school uniform while I stood in my usual scruffy manner . |
| 16 | I can not tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth . |
| 17 | But my heart dipped at the thought . |
| 18 | I had my heart set on a soft-top — preferably a Corvette or a Mustang — and I was n't going to let a spot of bracing weather stand in my way . |
| 19 | But I had my heart set on training a bird . |
| 20 | My heart hammered and I felt breathless . |
| 21 | How many times had my heart sunk when I asked if we could go somewhere or try something new in our poems and he had answered with the excusing phrase ‘ I guess not ’ ? |
| 22 | My heart chilled and I gnawed at my lip to hide my disappointment . |
| 23 | And my heart returned to a human being 's heart beat rate in — oh , just a few days , give or take a month or two . |
| 24 | My heart bled for you when I watched it . |
| 25 | ‘ When I walked away from the Great Rebellion , my heart bled with the pity and the waste and the anguish of it . |
| 26 | My problem is that over the last 4 or 5 years , I 've been having my hair highlighted and gradually I feel that it has become too blonde . |
| 27 | Because I 've had my hair highlighted regularly for the last ten years it gets really dry . |
| 28 | Welfare Assistant with Infants class gave me her telephone number so that I can arrange to have my hair highlighted by her daughter . |
| 29 | ‘ I have n't had my hair cut for about a year and neither has Meera so I thought it was time for a change . ’ |
| 30 | I can also get my hair cut , do some gardening , go to an art exhibition — things that just got squeezed out altogether beforehand . |