Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You wired them together to make a kind of pyramid . |
| 2 | Bernice suddenly found she badly needed a drink , but her hip flask was empty . |
| 3 | However well she did , however hard she tried she never earned a word of praise from her husband , the royal family or their courtiers . |
| 4 | And you 'd say , right , and you 'd go the , after the baby was born you , you 'd go back again to what we call the nur nursing , nursing up and you 'd want the bowl again for the baby and you 'd say wh where 's the bowl and they 'd say , oh well I think it 's downstairs , we used it yesterday to make a pudding in . |
| 5 | Saying this to me was like holding a red rag to a bull : the more anyone told me not to do a thing , the more I tried to do it . |
| 6 | She told me not to make a fuss over such a small thing . |
| 7 | Well , there was a silly ole cow workin' in the office an' when I went in there she give me a dirty look an' told me ter take a seat . |
| 8 | Now you told me how to start a sentence |
| 9 | Their teeth and jaws can inflict such damage that an expert fisherman once told me never to put a finger in even a dead pikes ' mouth . |
| 10 | When we were asleep , it had ceased to matter , but when we ate it still remained a bore . |
| 11 | Circumstances had obliged him to sell out to three younger partners , but until they came he never had a telephone or typewriter . |
| 12 | They both got it instinctively wrong , but then worked it out roughly by the sun , and I showed them how to use a watch as a compass , which Gareth half remembered , having learned before . |
| 13 | He bustled about with champagne flutes and ice and showed me how to fold a napkin round the neck of a bottle and how to pour without drips . |
| 14 | I never bothered much about Allie , and most of the time I forgot I even had a brother . |
| 15 | Well I got a video and , like , that 's all we got a few videos and the video showed you how to use a condom , and that was it . |
| 16 | He showed her how to make a love-knot |
| 17 | But he said he reckoned they probably shot a bit wide , and anyway the officers would see that they tried , and it was better to be shot by the other side rather than your own . |
| 18 | As the show opened they even enjoyed a beer with the first day crowds . |
| 19 | I felt around for a switch and threw it down to reveal a stone staircase with iron handrail . |
| 20 | A teacher showed us how to make a turkey , using two hands superimposed . |
| 21 | We smeared mud ( to simulate human excrement , which would infect wounds ) on sharpened wooden stakes which we buried in holes in the path covered up with leaves and brush , and Gibeau showed us how to make a mine out of a spring , some ball bearings and a walnut-sized lump of plastic explosive . |
| 22 | And they used to go to Belgium , they , they er walked them through to get a boat at Newcastle and they used to got to Belgium for |
| 23 | ( 38 ) They taught me how to use a word-processor . |
| 24 | I joined the Moose Jaw Flying Club and took weekly flying lessons from Dick Ryan , the instructor , who taught me how to handle a deHavilland and a Gypsy Moth aircraft . |
| 25 | ‘ He taught me how to tie a package with very little twine and very little paper and still make it look nice , ’ Walton later recalled . |
| 26 | He was shaken , but unhurt , and merely ordered me not to say a word . |
| 27 | They taught you how to saw a piece of wood and how to make a joint , a dovetail joint or a mortice and joint . |
| 28 | And as he walked her out to hail a taxi she felt a strange lightness invade her heart . |
| 29 | So I taught him that the first week , and the second week we went back and there was still only him , so it I taught him how to rewire a plug how to do it properly and er went back a third week and he was s still the only one there , so we went through it again , see if he 'd picked it up and he had n't so . |
| 30 | So I taught him how to change a fuse . |