Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skirting a small lake , they had stared to see a great , grey fisher-bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge , until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamour . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've frightened me stiff , ’ I said frankly . |
| 3 | So I 've said I 've listed them well the important points for me were the Aldershot method the arousal curve and the need for audience content . |
| 4 | To simplify his thoughts he had listed them under two headings : first there was that which directly affected Belpan . |
| 5 | We explained that we had not realized their boat was part of the Coast Guard and that we had not heard them aright in their orders to stop . |
| 6 | We 've heard them so many times that they 've ceased to have any effect . |
| 7 | The really insidious and mischievous phrases are the well-established ones that come to mind unbidden because we have heard them so often . |
| 8 | The synthesised female voice that responds to your commands and verifies that it has heard them correctly is amiable enough , though clearly not to be trifled with . |
| 9 | Raynor said softly , ‘ But you are so beautiful that men would die for you , ’ and Grainne looked up , startled , because the words had been so soft that she could not be sure she had heard them correctly , yet she knew she had . |
| 10 | But she could not remember where she had heard them before . |
| 11 | Richard , who had heard them before , frowned and swatted flies : it grew very hot . |
| 12 | A great deal of my audience enjoyed them immensely even though they 'd never heard them before . |
| 13 | I 've never heard them before . |
| 14 | I 've heard them before like that , distanced but there , singing beyond the night in a daytime of their own . |
| 15 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 16 | I told him my Vanessa story and he told me his and we 'd both heard them before ! |
| 17 | And because they were not so well known the audiences were always enchanted and wondered why they had never heard them before . |
| 18 | I 've heard them before , I do n't , you know , and , Roger Taylor and you , John Dean |
| 19 | Erm well , you have n't heard me yet . |
| 20 | Below , on the terrace , Marie Claire had heard me open the windows . |
| 21 | You 've heard me often already chairman on this point . |
| 22 | I know I 've made a lot of mistakes and there are probably a lot of things I should be sorry about but I would n't change my life , I would make the same mistakes because they 've taught me so much . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't know how many times Stan has sacked me before , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Previously they had lacked an identity , but the training period had welded them together into a cohesive fighting force with an intense pride in themselves and their unit . |
| 25 | Well we 've come along the island of Stronsay now and at er the post office called Samson 's Lane and name which has always fascinated me really and er the sub-postmaster in charge here is Dennis . |
| 26 | My interests , after making a lifelong detour through the natural sciences , medicine and psychotherapy , returned to the cultural problems which had fascinated me long before , when I was a youth scarcely old enough for thinking . |
| 27 | When he 'd parted them both fish and frog began animatedly to flap around . |
| 28 | Now unle now unless there are any participants that want , really burning to make a comment , er I feel that we have settled , well we 've had enough discussion on little A , I 've got enough , well I 've got enough from you in terms of your views about size of settlement , and Mr Brighton has pointed me again in the direction of his submission about er the definition of an integrated and balanced community , I would like to know , er from Mr Davis whether he concurs with that sort of interpretation , and I have a feeling that we have also had an expression , generally , that at the moment one settlement is probably appropriate , if you have to have a new settlement . |
| 29 | As we have traced them so far , Goody 's arguments and my counter-arguments seem to go something like this . |
| 30 | Instead of lengthening their bodies , like the caecilians , they have shortened it , their vertebrae having become fused together , and far from losing their legs , they have developed them enormously , and some have become prodigious leapers . |