Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For non-metals if you try to hit them and beat them into sheets or if you try to stretch them you get ? |
| 2 | As I passed the bakery on my way home , Didier ran out of the shop to greet me and asked if he might accompany me . |
| 3 | Lizzie came from the back of the house to greet them and insisted on helping them carry in Sara 's boxes , packages and various belongings . |
| 4 | It occurred to me that he might well have heard me and decided not to answer . |
| 5 | He again went to see them and persuaded them to accompany him to a meeting at the police station with Mr McLean on August 24 . |
| 6 | ‘ He came to see me and said ‘ What am I going to do — I 'm in trouble with Mrs Thatcher ’ , ’ said David Missen , 51 , the lover of sex therapist Sara Dale , alias Miss Whiplash , who met Courtney when the pair became involved in the Life Shield Association . |
| 7 | We reached Mandalay and I went straight to the Winchester Mission where dear Willie Garrad looked shocked to see me and said in a scandalised voice , ‘ Oh , but you ca n't possibly stay here ’ — it was a Brotherhood you see ! |
| 8 | Someone from a hostel in London came to see me and said they would have me , so when I went to court in Sheffield the judge decided to put me on bail for four weeks , on condition that I stayed at the hostel and that I did n't drink , and also if I attended the Jules Thorn psychiatric unit , which is part of St Pancras Hospital , for a ten-day assessment . |
| 9 | He said he 'd flown over urgently to see me and asked me to come to the Cheshire Cheese , that pub in Fleet Street , at ten o'clock that night . |
| 10 | A year beforehand , Chudnovsky , who was a collector from Leningrad , and a very well-known one , had been to see me and asked if I could help him . |
| 11 | My mum come up to see me and asked me what the bandage was for and I told her I 'd burnt myself . |
| 12 | I thought at the time she made nought of it , but back last summer , like you say , round August bank 'oliday , she came to see me and asked me to tell 'er everything I remembered 'bout the day of the explosion . |
| 13 | A military judge came to see me and read out the charges — I had been accused of stealing a car . |
| 14 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 15 | Vincent came to see me and stayed all day . |
| 16 | When I was in police custody the doctor came in to see me and gave me some tablets and I 'm asking you for some now . ’ |
| 17 | Well I , I was sitting in my house one night on the , I think it would be er nineteen fifty four , and a deputation came up from the ward committee to see me and wondered if I would join the council . |
| 18 | Also , the wardens of the Forest of Dean , and of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges , were required to account directly at the Exchequer for the revenues of their bailiwicks , instead of farming them as had been the previous practice . |
| 19 | But the chambermaid Miss Kenton had left in attendance stood up upon seeing me and began to shake my father 's shoulder . |
| 20 | I offered my thanks to the interviewer for seeing me and shook his/her hand at the end . |
| 21 | Perkin would n't have risked any way to kill me that meant creeping up on me , not after what he 'd seen . |
| 22 | Molly 's brother had rung her to thank everyone and said Molly was delighted to receive them . |
| 23 | I had n't been in the force very long and my sergeant met me and said , ‘ That chimney 's smoking . ’ |
| 24 | I flew out to Chino , California , where the aircraft was based , Merril met me and flew an impressive display in the aircraft . |
| 25 | Er until they actually met them and got to know them . |
| 26 | For various reasons they were wrong ; but illusion of continuity was easily available because they had at least some of their kinsmen at close quarters , met them and socialized with them each day . |
| 27 | The point was the Germans hated them and wanted to get rid of them . |
| 28 | When the Treaties of Rome creating the Common Market and Euratom had been signed in 1957 , de Gaulle had criticized them and told aides that , if he came back to power , he would " destroy " them . |
| 29 | He keeps touching me and Harried up and once he took us both off into a little room to tell us off and stroked Harriet 's leg . |
| 30 | ‘ You attacked me and tried to force yourself upon me , you wanted to blackmail me , you followed me around and spied on me in Helmsley — and you say I 've nothing to fear ! ’ |