Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He made them put it in the garden shed . ’
2 The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo .
3 Now why , what made them take it to the stage
4 ‘ In European countries , it took the working class years and years before they fully realized the fact that they formed a distinct and , under existing conditions , a permanent class of modern society ; and it took years again until this class-consciousness led them to form themselves into a distinct political party , independent of , and opposed to , all the old political parties formed by the various sections of the ruling classes .
5 ‘ She asked me to give it to the lady who had been in court with her child , and to ask if you would take care of her till she could come for her . ’
6 I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies .
7 It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress .
8 As one who was so instrumental in mapping out the future promise of early Smiths , his quote ‘ If you asked me to write something about The Smiths now it would probably be critical ’ , remained interesting .
9 Then he asked me to kiss him on the lips and we kissed .
10 Two explosions in quick succession made me throw myself to the ground .
11 I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head .
12 Later in the evening when the place had quietened a little and the cyclists had eaten , I invited them to join me for a glass of wine .
13 After a short chat he invited me to join him at a ‘ small Chinese gathering ’ in the hall usually used for Tong meetings on River Street West .
14 She liked flowers , liked even more the thought behind them , but Gaily only remembered when he caught them staring him in the face — or in the feet , as now .
15 Apart from that , there 's a certain justification for the MC4 clasping the live album nettle — given that it was their constant , sometimes belligerent belief in gigging that helped them establish themselves in the first place .
16 Isobel read it and sent me to Professor MacFee — an English Professor — with it , and they both helped me to send it to a publisher in London .
17 He had a feeling that Maidstone mentioned them to vindicate himself in the eyes of others .
18 When Richard Denyer first began knocking on doors in the book publishing world , with the synopsis of a photographic essay on the Norfolk Broads in his hand , he found himself facing something of an image problem .
19 He started typing and found himself enjoying it for the first time for years .
20 ‘ And it was as a result of these conversations that he invited you to join him on the dahabeeyah ? ’
21 She found herself telling him about the Vermeer she had been painstakingly copying , and then with a shudder of its destruction .
22 She had a long face and such a naked forehead , Daisy found herself turning her into a polo pony .
23 Rachel found herself following him into the social club and a few minutes later when they were both seated with their drinks in the same window-seat where they had sat before she said , ‘ So what 's your connection with Conway House ? ’
24 Maggie was still not in any condition to argue and she found herself following him to the dark little bar , almost running a gauntlet of greetings from the men standing around .
25 But it jogged a memory somewhere , and she found herself examining it with a growing sense of unease .
26 He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day .
27 It never was when she invited him to meet her at the flat ; she was keeping him and Stock out of each other 's way .
28 If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience .
29 On the evening before his body was found she had organised a baby-sitter to look after their two children and invited him to accompany her to a function at Dowman 's British Steel Club , but he had refused to go and instead went out alone .
30 During the summer of 1977 she watched him play polo at Smith 's Lawn , Windsor and when , in February 1978 , he invited her to join him on a skiing party in Klosters , Switzerland there was much speculation that she might be the future queen of England .
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