Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 Mary , my eldest sister , had taken the day off work and had washed the curtains but for lack of time to dry them properly had hung them back up wet .
2 Yep I agree erm I 'd better try them on had n't I ?
3 The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before .
4 All of them eventually died of cardiac failure without the return to normal bowel function .
5 With them eventually came dashing British sports , like steeple chasing , cricket , golf and fox-hunting , the last of which had runs in the nearby countryside called ‘ Old England ’ , ‘ Leicestershire ’ and , best of all , as a concession to the French , ‘ Have Leicestershire ’ .
6 Getting them to take me on had taken some persuasion : developing countries do not generally put in requests for people in my profession — clinical psychology .
7 The manservant who let them in looked too young and too tall for his black coat .
8 They had come much further into the forest than they intended , much further indeed than those who ordered them in had intended .
9 Stepping briefly outside , he called for a bottle of Clairin to be brought , and the woman who had shown them in brought it instantly .
10 And these people took them in cleaned them up put them in like a bloody sheet , and all sorts he said
11 The young man who had let them in introduced himself as Malengin Fole .
12 George Eliot had loved the bonnets and sprigged china — because she knew them , or because writing them down gave her power over them , made her gentle and generous to their meaning ?
13 The air between them suddenly seemed static , as she fought for the words to justify her decision .
14 ‘ So one of them suddenly got rich , hey ?
15 And Karen last weekend , after you were sitting for them suddenly took ill on the Saturday I think , and Sheila was n't in any great shape , so he went back home er , from the office an over his lunch hour to see if he could just go and lend a hand , ge generally help out over his lunch hour .
16 And Dalglish must have gone into shock again as the side who have so far swept all before them suddenly surrendered their 100 per cent home record .
17 That did n't take them long did it ?
18 He got me so riled I lost a race this afternoon I should have won .
19 The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary .
20 The Italian government , concerned that the better things should remain in Italy , were delighted to hear that many of them only made the journey by canal from the Cannareggio to the piano nobile of the Palazzo Malpiero .
21 But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation .
22 The 1982 and 1984 BCS between them only uncovered two cases of attempted rape and 17 and 18 sexual assaults respectively ( Jones et al .
23 Finally I managed to get out of the harness and , luckily for me , the parachute that was dragging me along got tangled in a camel thorn bush .
24 The man who had shown me in reached a pewter tankard down from the Welsh dresser and filled it with champagne .
25 The friend who watched them together recalled : ‘ Camilla was not what one would call a truly beautiful woman .
26 The tug which had linked and drawn them together had gone .
27 The actual process of putting them together proved to be an awful lot more difficult than we first thought .
28 She , Esther and Alix had known one another since their Cambridge days , and often met , but an evening with them necessarily excluded Charles : Esther and Alix did not much care for the world that Charles represented , and his presence inhibited all three of them .
29 Some of them obviously exceeded their duties in their zeal for examination improvement , as a memo of December 1942 makes clear : These examinations are to be regarded as a domestic affair of the Local Education Authorities for the conduct of which no responsibility must rest upon Inspectors …
30 Incidents such as this , and there were many more than I have recorded , could have worn me down had I not taken an almost fatalistic view .
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