Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then he asked me to kiss him on the lips and we kissed . |
| 8 | I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He started typing and found himself enjoying it for the first time for years . |
| 14 | ‘ And it was as a result of these conversations that he invited you to join him on the dahabeeyah ? ’ |
| 15 | She found herself telling him about the Vermeer she had been painstakingly copying , and then with a shudder of its destruction . |
| 16 | She had a long face and such a naked forehead , Daisy found herself turning her into a polo pony . |
| 17 | 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 ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But it jogged a memory somewhere , and she found herself examining it with a growing sense of unease . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She had scarcely recovered her composure from that frantic evening before he invited her to join him on the royal yacht Britannia during Cowes Week . |
| 25 | I caught him watching me in the third . |
| 26 | Leonora whirled round , flushing as she found him watching her from the doorway . |
| 27 | I found him cursing her for the border . |
| 28 | She let him accompany her into the small lounge where the set was kept in segregation from the vocal and gregarious fishermen , and settle her in a comfortable chair , cheek by jowl with a single elderly lady , who seemed pleased to have company , and disposed to conversation . |
| 29 | It protested at once , so she let him carry her to the living-room . |
| 30 | She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him . |