Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 2 | Secondly , we must recall that the mental conflicts which I am identifying as the origins of human society and civilized behaviour — essentially those portrayed in the story of Oedipus — were as intensely painful and unpleasurable to those who experienced them then as they are to those who experience them in our own times . |
| 3 | Good girl ! " he commended Lally as kindly as he would any keen bitch , and asked nothing further . |
| 4 | The first two rounds were on the first day of the Championships , and I cruised them comfortably . |
| 5 | He might also have said , as he had on countless occasions , that although he had constantly looked to the British for advice , he distrusted them acutely . |
| 6 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
| 7 | We expended them too recklessly . |
| 8 | It conveyed nothing out of the ordinary . |
| 9 | Then , said he , ‘ Would the comrade who interrupted me please stand up ! ’ |
| 10 | Now you d you went and interrupted me there and , and I 've forgotten what I was saying which was right . |
| 11 | And expected everyone else to do the same . |
| 12 | I made nothing out of it . |
| 13 | Andrew bought young horses and made them well , Nicandra showed them to their best advantage , she had become a beautiful horsewoman . |
| 14 | The back light from the day 's end made them even more dramatic and the sea was on fire . |
| 15 | We took two hunks and , with the help of a carefully selected team of experts , made them even hunkier ! |
| 16 | The Stanleys were careful to place themselves at the head of local opinion rather than ride the county roughshod and their identity of opinion with local Unionists on political and religious matters made them even more powerful . |
| 17 | The imperial constitution and the prevailing political temper of the country made them even less effective than in Britain or France ; but the Daily Telegraph incident of 1908 and its effect in undermining the authority of William II helped to intensify them . |
| 18 | The affluence made them exceptionally important and they were not slow to demand the ‘ communal ’ rights held by other important medieval centres , many of whom gained privileges similar to those of London . |
| 19 | Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets . |
| 20 | They had high opinions of their value on stage , which made them rather undisciplined . |
| 21 | She went straight into the kitchen , and automatically made them both a cup of coffee , a mutual family ritual when one of them went out to a meeting . |
| 22 | After this he made them both some cocoa and began the first of the Just So stories . |
| 23 | A deep , shockingly familiar voice made them both turn and look towards the door . |
| 24 | Those who could n't read the words made them up , and Tich , who 'd lost his glasses , settled for singing ‘ Widecombe Fair ’ instead , coughing , spluttering and relishing his last night out . |
| 25 | They were supervised by a Miss Walker who , although she could not dance , also watched over their dances and made them up every night . |
| 26 | The police did not have reasons to arrest people , they made them up . |
| 27 | Most patients reacted to injections of a number of substances and he made them up custom made ‘ vaccines ’ of supposed antidotes . |
| 28 | I made them up just in the spur of the moment . |
| 29 | If the police think we made them up , they 'll think the same about the tapes , maybe about the kidnap itself . ’ |
| 30 | This enforced poverty made them easier targets for propaganda : if they left with no more than their allowance , they could be portrayed as shabby Untermenschen scuttling away like rats ; if they managed to outwit the system , then they were economic criminals fleeing with stolen goods . |