Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | When efforts to persuade them to go proved fruitless , the building began to be demolished around their heads . |
2 | Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 . |
3 | As they became established , shares in many of them became quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
4 | ‘ Jack and me got married very quietly yesterday afternoon . ’ |
5 | And in fact , I think in recent years what we know as the third world is the fourth , because those oil producing countries in the third world retained the status of being third and everyone got pushed to the fourth . |
6 | Last time I went in everyone got called ! |
7 | ‘ Nearly everyone got invited . ’ |
8 | On Saturday everyone got paid . |
9 | The Brigadier appeared and , after much foot stamping and saluting , everyone got lined up and ready to move off , but not before the Brigadier insisted that there should be a bodyguard of four Commandos to protect the Piper . |
10 | ‘ Oh , nothing got decided , we just provisionally concurred with each other . |
11 | The gentlemen in Virginia were in no position to do this ; they had very little money to spend in a gentlemanly way and no particular experience of colonization to give them any other claims to respect and obedience , as nothing got done and about 60 of the 100 initial settlers died in 1607 . |
12 | On the one hand , some clients may prefer a structured day with routine care , which everyone receives given at set times , very probably by a succession of nurses . |
13 | and one of them got bunked off |
14 | The rest of Europe laughs at the feudal system that most of them got rid of centuries ago . |
15 | Supposing one of them got carried away and hit the old boy too hard . |
16 | Many of them got burnt out . |
17 | The girls were called Lizzie , Winnie , Ada and Edith , and I think all of them got married . |
18 | The general effect of widespread miscegenation was , as in North American the creation of large number of métis , many of whom became assimilated into the ‘ Russian ’ population of Siberia . |
19 | Well , as no-one 'ad bought any of me violets or treated me to a sandwich , and me near dyin' of starvation , with no job and no lodgings , well , I was so desperate I went up and grabbed the wallet , which Blackbeard was wavin' about at Dan Pearson . |
20 | Nothing lies hidden in you . ’ |
21 | That is why schools increasingly take immense amounts of classroom time to work their way through rule systems with children , so that the end result is a matter of agreement , towards which everyone has contributed and on which everyone has agreed . |
22 | By the time I am ready to move again everyone has gone . |
23 | Everyone has gone . |
24 | There 's no one in there , everyone has gone . |
25 | From fashion designers looking for a source of chic thrills to Sunday supplements looking to tickle their readers ' fancy , everyone has plundered the S&M scene for imagery . |
26 | They start again when the time comes , when alliances have shifted , when everyone has stored enough ammunition to have another go , when race hatreds revive under the guise of class wars begin anew as ethnic strife . |
27 | Everyone has faced the embarrassing dilemma of deciding how much extra to give a waiter , hairdresser or taxi-driver . |
28 | DURING Fun Fortnight we 've had jokes on everything from cows to coughs , doctors to dentists , and everyone has given us a good laugh . |
29 | DURING Fun Fortnight we 've had jokes on everything from cows to coughs , doctors to dentists , and everyone has given us a good laugh . |
30 | ‘ He will be nursing a secret desire to try to make amends , even though everyone has reassured him that these things happen . |