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 | Leslie had taught me how to live , and the war how to endure . |
| 23 | The last year has taught me how little I really knew about what goes on behind the wrought-iron gates of Buckingham Palace and the red brick walls of Kensington Palace . |
| 24 | I decided to work with the market women 's organization , ASUTRAMES , because my mother had a market stall and I would help her , and because the community had taught me how important it was to claim our rights . |
| 25 | But my father had taught me how to make them on my arm , fox-bites . |
| 26 | ( At that time nobody had taught me how to preserve them to keep as specimens . |
| 27 | My father , a policeman , had taught me how to do this years before . |
| 28 | Erm , I found out today , that I did n't realise she 'd actually passed a c , a beautician 's course , so I do n't know why she 's taught me out of all , has n't taught me how to go on . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Erm , I found out today , that I did n't realise she 'd actually passed a c , a beautician 's course , so I do n't know why she 's taught me out of all , has n't taught me how to go on . |