Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [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 | ‘ And it was as a result of these conversations that he invited you to join him on the dahabeeyah ? ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 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 | The sheer beauty of their surroundings helped her to distance herself from the unsettling vibrations between them . |
| 29 | Without communicating criticism , David was able to convey to Julia something which helped her to see herself through the eyes of others . |
| 30 | 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 . |