Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone agreed that investiture by lay rulers conferred no spiritual power : it did no more than put a prelate in possession of the rights , lands , and secular dignities of his new office . |
| 2 | Everyone agreed that tinnitus was worse when they were tired , particularly when they were mentally tired rather than physically tired . |
| 3 | She do n't pay me got another pack of peanuts so I have got a few that few , but you do n't need any old bag do you ? |
| 4 | He dodged between the startled shoppers , none of whom made any attempt to stop him . |
| 5 | Nothing made any sense . ’ |
| 6 | What was there to be so glad about when nothing made any difference ? |
| 7 | Nearly everyone made some kind of a contribution . |
| 8 | Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money . |
| 9 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 10 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 11 | Economists were being involved in the process of economic decision making in a manner which had been unknown previously , and most of them found this admission to the counsels of the influential and powerful to be very congenial . |
| 12 | They needed each other , them complemented each other , they were bound together in a joint world order that defined the period 1948–1989 . |
| 13 | My father came from a peasant family in Berkshire , consisting of three sons and five daughters , all of whom entered some kind of domestic service , the women rising to responsible posts as head housemaids , housekeepers and parlourmaids . |
| 14 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
| 15 | So the reason I asked that question is because I wanted to see if you were already thinking like an archaeologist . |
| 16 | But , you see , I asked that question , the final one , the only one that mattered , a long time after . |
| 17 | I asked that question , it has not been answered . |
| 18 | It turned out , when I asked another student about her , that she spent most of her time organizing the Drama Society and almost never came into the department . |
| 19 | I asked another teacher , ‘ Well , what do you think ? ’ she said ‘ You were wrong to shout back at her full stop ! |
| 20 | I I know the question about rent was mentioned but , I 'm just talking generally now , I asked this question to another housing association how do you justify rents of sixty pounds and above for accommodation and social housing ? |
| 21 | Erm but I mean i i you know the reason I asked this question is that , if this group said now , Absolutely no way . |
| 22 | Now say for instance that because of the minimum solvency er agreement the employers have got to pay whatever their loss is , and if and I asked this question of the T U C that if there was a situation of where the employees were in the majority and forget the pension regulator , because there was a regulator anyway , so you can add whatever name that y you liked to have , but the fraud still went on , but say the employees were in the majority as far as the trustees is concerned and they were in full control and the control was taken away from the employers and there was a a federation of the hundred and twenty eight thousand with a central fund paying off heavy loss of any minimum solvencies , then surely that would be the ideal situation in order to safeguard , because when I asked Goodey himself when he submitted his report , he said they could not give any categ categorical assurance that nobody could defraud in any scheme under the proposals he 's made . |
| 23 | I asked this housemaster to develop this further . |
| 24 | And another thing I asked this engineer that were in charge of job . |
| 25 | That 's the question I asked this morning , Why was n't it you know , why were n't we doing it ? |
| 26 | I 've already stated I do not recall er the person I voiced that concern with at the time |
| 27 | Do n't you remember how I stilled that storm ? |
| 28 | When I made that bed yesterday it was sitting in there . |
| 29 | Yes , stool making , you know I 've got a stool here , I made that stool over there ages ago for me daughter-in-law and this one I can not get it right I 've , I 've , it 's , it 's , I 'm trying I 've got to undo it again there , it 's not right , I think it is because the cord 's too thick , it 's a very thick cord and I 've not got enough stitches you know not enough strands on it , but I 'm gon na do it , it 'll be done before Christmas I 've got to do it otherwise |
| 30 | Yes and then I made that call . |