Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To illustrate the way many of them operated he cited the case of a widow who in 1894 borrowed £50 from a London loan bank on the security of her furniture which was valued at £250 . |
| 2 | The fact that Lili seemed to take an interest in me led me to think that she had never been very close to my mother . |
| 3 | Everyone agreed they looked well suited … particularly Rod . |
| 4 | Everyone agreed you had to bring in the nukes eventually . |
| 5 | As the neighbours started to emerge later in the day , everyone agreed it had been a great San Juan . |
| 6 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 7 | Apart from this , she was angry with Jamila for marrying Changez , the sight of whom made her feel ill . |
| 8 | When they went after something nothing made them waver , just as he had set after her . |
| 9 | He tried to live an ordinary life , working as a bus driver , and accounts clerk at Harrods and later studying for a zoology degree , but nothing made him content . |
| 10 | When everyone expected him to break into a nimble tune , he played a slow air that sounded Irish in the long luxuriant unfolding of each phrase . |
| 11 | His shaking hands with me made me feel half hero , half saint . |
| 12 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 13 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |
| 14 | Her grey eyes when she looked at me made me tremble . |
| 15 | President Truman did so in a campaign which no-one expected him to win , and he won . |
| 16 | None of them got him to justify our membership of the ERM , which is , as everyone knows , the cause of our high interest rates . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She went to a dance alone with hope and a new set of clothes , but all they saw was a fat woman and no-one asked her to dance . |
| 19 | Just watching them made me feel ill . |
| 20 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 21 | Something about them made him feel deeply afraid , but he knew that he could n't just stand there . |
| 22 | Two of them made her feel , not old exactly , but as if life was passing her by They were the one from Joanne that said , " You 've reached a quarter century " and the one from Stephen , " My dearest wife " . |
| 23 | The sight of them made her feel old — old and soiled . |
| 24 | A whispering shriek of rage and terror behind them made them jump out of their skins . |
| 25 | By now she was six feet tall and to the patients she looked like Boadicea with a bedpan ; none of them found her calming , and the sisters regarded her hair with secret fear . |
| 26 | Neither of them mentioned what had taken place outside the school and neither of them would . |
| 27 | I listened to 6 sports reports on Saturday and not one of them mentioned who scored for Leeds . |
| 28 | The extra performance on the Tuesday in aid of the new cancer day-care ward at Whiston Hospital raised three hundred pounds and special thanks go to Betty who came up with the original idea and everyone involved who organized the marvellous spread for the soiree afterwards . |
| 29 | Now near the Dutch frontier , Harry felt it might be an idea to cross from Germany by climbing into a wagon in a marshalling yard , but after a tedious wait when nothing moved he returned to his cycle and was soon in sight of the red and white border posts . |
| 30 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |