Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This one wanted to do my work , but when he started telling me that personally he was against all pet shops and would like to see them closed we did n't exactly see eye to eye . |
| 2 | But whatever their position is by Wednesday , supporters hope to see them put their disappointments behind them for the Aldershot Senior Cup final . |
| 3 | The prospect of seeing them made him full of joy . |
| 4 | You made them did you ? |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't make me split me sides , ’ said Dolly , ‘ you can talk all right , do n't I know it . |
| 6 | Yeah he was gon na make me had it over . |
| 7 | It 'll make me wet my pants . ’ |
| 8 | The sight that met them brought everything back with a rush . |
| 9 | In a typically Chinese way , when I was discharged , the doctor who had treated me escorted me to the car , and shook hands and asked if I had any complaints , as he knew the hospital left plenty of room for improvement . |
| 10 | be a doctor ’ — She asked me had I thought it out ? |
| 11 | Says Eugene modestly , ‘ Kurt asked me did I want to go on , and I said ‘ Great ’ , but I shat myself . |
| 12 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 13 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 14 | Going to grammar school really made me isolated It was only a couple of miles away from where I lived but that 's a long way when you 're only 11 — years-old and all your mates from junior school had gone to the local comprehensive round the corner . |
| 15 | When I rang up to say I were coming I asked them did they want Easter eggs or did they want fa er a box of chocolates or bars of chocolate we |
| 16 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 17 | When we met I told him that I did not think he had anything more urgent to attend to , and if he thought he had something more important , then his priorities were wrong . |
| 18 | ‘ The first time we met I thought she was gorgeous but I did n't ask for her phone number because I imagined every man must do that . |
| 19 | I 'd been teaching in Preston it must have been three years then , and when I read that book I suddenly realized I knew nothing about Lancashire at all — not the real Lancashire . |
| 20 | Once I realized I loved her and that she loved me it became clear that I had to leave my wife . |
| 21 | ‘ I hoped you 'd say that — why do you think I brought you here , where we can be alone ? ’ |
| 22 | Why do you think I brought you down to his place if it was n't so that I could stake a claim on your patience — make you listen to what I have to confess because there was no way you could run away from me — flag down a taxi , catch a bus and head for the airport ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't think I met anyone who was having her baby adopted . |
| 24 | I do n't think I got one . |
| 25 | ‘ Where do you think I got it … . the bloody fishmongers ? , ’ he replied , with mock exasperation . |
| 26 | But I do n't think I got it . |
| 27 | Why do you think I told her those stories , the other night , about demons getting their comeuppances ? |
| 28 | ‘ Of course , why do you think I asked him to attend the opening of the store ? ’ |
| 29 | No I do n't think I saw him on , on the return one . |
| 30 | ‘ Because I do n't think I knew what I was daeing either . ’ |