Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some loved him , others hated him , but everyone respected what little they ever found out about this strange ‘ refusenik ’ who was part of no group or establishment , yet managed to affect so many people 's lives . |
| 2 | Eight of them lived their last years in their children 's homes . |
| 3 | So no-one got it right , pollsters , reporters or bookmakers . |
| 4 | He hated to see a dripping tap , and nothing made him angrier than Blackpool Tower blazing with , what to him was , utterly squandered energy . |
| 5 | Under expert instruction , dad ( of course ) would administer the fatal blow , and mum would ensure everyone got their favourite cuts by overseeing the butchery . |
| 6 | His face was without the offensively avuncular smile that usually accompanies such trite statements ; and something intent about the look he gave me made it clear he did not mean it tritely . |
| 7 | The US Seniors ' Tour may outstrip the USPGA Tour in terms of waistlines and average age , but no-one expected its leading money winner to also claim higher earnings . |
| 8 | To babies had this dried milk and some of them got it cheap and I suppose there was no work and then they were poor were n't they . |
| 9 | The prospect of seeing them made him full of joy . |
| 10 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
| 11 | Whatever these changes were , many who witnessed them found them worrying and unsettling . |
| 12 | Many of them found it easier to move on to the North American mainland after their indentures had expired . |
| 13 | Both of them found it difficult to express their feelings on the war , except in the third person , so strong were their views . |
| 14 | Most of them retained their medieval walls and intricate street patterns and they often served as ecclesiastical or secular centres of administration , but their major role was to act as retail , handicraft and distribution points for wide hinterlands . |
| 15 | Sarah 's place at University is now assured along with other classmates , some of whom found it all a bit too much . |
| 16 | Sarah 's place at University is now assured along with other classmates , some of whom found it all a bit too much . |
| 17 | I tolled him i thort he was rong and that the jokes are abowt as funny as some jokes that are very funny . |
| 18 | I asked myself each time , Why ca n't I make the pot boil ? |
| 19 | I asked myself that question on many occasions and wondered how I was supposed to refresh his and other people 's memories without risking the accusation of going on about it all the time . |
| 20 | Finally I asked what criminal law might contribute to legal theory . |
| 21 | Turning , then , to the relationship of criminal law and legal theory , I asked what legal theory might contribute to criminal law and I dealt with two central issues ; first , the limits of exposition imposed by the nature of legal rules which , I argue , are essentially incomplete and therefore incapable of a final , exhaustive statement ; and , secondly , the nature of methodological purity , where I argue against a tendency to distort data to fit a favoured critical principle . |
| 22 | I asked what young chap , and he gave me a description which tallies with what Sanders told us : about twenty-five , darkish , slightly built . |
| 23 | So for example when I 've given a pint of blood instead of giving it into a plastic bag with sodium citrate to stop it clotting I 've actually given into a plain glass bottle and when I asked what this for the erm transfusion nurse said that they 're going to let the red cells all clot together at the bottom and use the serum that was left for blood grouping purposes which of course is very important . |
| 24 | So erm anyway goes in , I said to him other day , I asked him other week , he says our turn to give me a ring |
| 25 | I asked him first , How are you ? |
| 26 | ‘ I asked him that last night , ’ admitted Jennifer . |
| 27 | side , I , I asked him that and he said he did n't , well I , I think he was lying |
| 28 | And I asked him earlier today why he collected butterflies . |
| 29 | Well I hope she 'll be interested enough to , but , not really before she 's six , cos I asked him last couple of times ago , he said , what sort of age , cos obviously the size of the hands comes into it , they ca n't do too much , but he said he would n't consider before six and you ough t 'a have to take the parents into consideration , of a child that age you got ta have a parent who 's prepared to sit there and make sure the child does what he 's set them to do , because , oh Amy , you not getting any out of that . |
| 30 | I asked her right and she said er |