Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In a typically Chinese way , when I was discharged , the doctor who had treated me escorted me to the car , and shook hands and asked if I had any complaints , as he knew the hospital left plenty of room for improvement . |
| 2 | I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head . |
| 3 | Okay so do you want to run us through some of the things that we have n't really discussed in detail of what we 're gon na talk about in here today , specifically have we , I mean I thought something along the lines of er the nature and extent of sexual variations in English , or any other language you want . |
| 4 | It 'll slide on ca I mean I moved it into the corner so that erm |
| 5 | I mean I found it in the past , you know any infection what so ever just knocks you for six . |
| 6 | People say I kicked him in the head but there is no way I would do that . ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps it 's new , she bought I expect she bought it in the States I should think . |
| 8 | ‘ And you say she kept it in a drawer ? ’ |
| 9 | Say she enticed him into the woods and became demanding in every way and heavily emotional , piling on pressure . |
| 10 | Say you lost him in the crowd . |
| 11 | Behrend who entertained us in the Officers ' Mess for an evening meal and breakfast . |
| 12 | But surprising the people that you do n't realise , you know , it troubles the parents and as I say they took them to a number of specialists and given different things |
| 13 | ‘ I expect he did it for the insurance , ’ Dangerfield said . |
| 14 | As though his feet were programmed he found himself at the Incident Room . |
| 15 | Inevitably , when he arrived home he found he had nothing but a blank sheet of photographic paper . |
| 16 | Some say he took it from an Indian funeral chant , others from a poem by a U.S. poet Mary Fry , though no one seems to know anything else about the lady . |
| 17 | As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require . |
| 18 | In a sense this was so , but on the other hand the activity of town planning soon got bogged down in a technical bureaucracy , losing the dash and verve which sustained it during the 1940s . |
| 19 | Before he could speak I introduced myself as a friend of the family . |
| 20 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 21 | Judging from your usual acerbic frame of mind , I imagine you flushed them down the sink long ago . ’ |
| 22 | I am pleased you 're enjoying my series of articles on writing a novel , hope you gained something from the rest there should be seven in all . |
| 23 | She says they condemned her to a lifetime of pain and disability . |
| 24 | He says they asked her to the disco . |
| 25 | ‘ She says he met someone from the convent on the night that Lady Eleanor died , and that Father Reynard did go to Godstowe but then disappeared until the next morning . ’ |
| 26 | The tale of Simon the Athenian appears in Samuel Sharp 's History of Stamford of 1847 , where he says he found it in a ‘ quaint old black-letter record ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Several people who were present say he was n't , and a cabby says he delivered him to the Post on Friday afternoon . |
| 28 | When it was done he ordered her into the sleeping-bag . |
| 29 | From its first issue it identified itself as a coordinating centre for research in English studies , and indeed , the development of an identity based upon research for the discipline can be seen to have been one of its major functions . |
| 30 | Do you think y er you and your your mates who were out , do you think you learnt anything from the strike ? |