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 .
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