Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her own family has suffered the anguish of repossession , and her personal story of how her local Liberal Democrat-controlled council helped them made her the winner in the school 's mock election . |
| 2 | His clever course management in the wake of continuous swing problems had made Olazabal a huge favourite with the Sun City galleries , many of whom rated him the superior of Seve Ballesteros , a two-time winner of the event . |
| 3 | But although I asked myself the question , I knew the answer . |
| 4 | ‘ I asked myself the same question , ’ said Dr. Ray . |
| 5 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 6 | I asked what the Lewis ailments were compared to those in Australia . |
| 7 | I asked what the rest did but he must have heard it before because he was not amused . |
| 8 | Feeling that further conversation was needed , I asked what the roses were like at Sutton that summer . |
| 9 | I asked what the DTI officials had said , and he said that they had told him nothing . |
| 10 | After checking that I was not talking to the media , I asked what the nature of her enquiry was , and she proceeded to furnish me with the facts . |
| 11 | Just on the shall we say off-chance I asked what the situation was regarding additional lines between Norwich and Crawley as between Stansted Norwich and Crawley to see if there was anything under way and what the approximate cost would be because erm well I know there 's more D D I facilities now . |
| 12 | He asked me whether I was a country person I asked what the qualifications were he said country born and bred , well I was born in Liverpool spent my childhood and early adolescence in rural Nottinghamshire , moved to Highfields , emigrated to the West Indies and now live in sub rural Blavey so I do n't know whether I qualify as a country person or not , but I 'd like to bet that I 've milked more cows by hand than he has if that 's any qualification . |
| 13 | I asked him the differences between the Quechua and the Spanish view of the world . |
| 14 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman nodded when I asked him the same question earlier , but he has not said how he will ensure fairness between schools and therefore , no discrimination against students with special needs . |
| 15 | I asked somebody the way out and she offered to show me . |
| 16 | This what I asked you the other week . |
| 17 | Er , now , I asked you the table set have n't I ? |
| 18 | If those , all of those contract temps are regarded as full time people it looks like full time people are working overtime , which is why I asked you the question yesterday erm what 's the overtime bill for quotes alone . |
| 19 | In that last summer before he died I read him the whole of Proust … |
| 20 | I made myself the timetable you know . |
| 21 | God knows why — I made him the same way I made the rest of you — but there it is . |
| 22 | After drawing a blank on Rhodes , I had to write something that justified my travelling expenses , so I made you the villain of the piece . |
| 23 | The famous sequence when the helicopters gather in the sky before the great attack has music with it — very familiar music ! — but , do you know , I was so gripped by the power of Coppola 's image , the helicopters , the music , that it was n't until many , many hours afterwards that I realized what the music was he had been using . |
| 24 | I was just silently congratulating myself on tumbling her secret at last when I realized who the man in the photograph was . |
| 25 | and I 'm seeing the surgeon today and erm and I met somebody the other day who 'd had it done and his fingers were n't affected , you know , so I mean it 's just the luck of the draw I think . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've known Francisco for years — I met him the first year I came here , when Monte Samana was brand new . ’ |
| 27 | " Yes , I met someone the other night who made a sort of suggestion about a possible job of some kind . " |
| 28 | I sold him the car did n't I ? |
| 29 | ‘ And I sold them the best . |
| 30 | So I mean in the shop I , I did sell for the National Trust once but I s I sold them the . |