Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This kind of treatment caused resentment among the petty-minded officialdom which ran the British professional game , and when Boomer was chosen for the 1927 Ryder Cup team he was picked up at Cherbourg en route to America and made to wear what every Frenchman was supposed to wear — a beret . |
| 2 | The assistant headteacher agreed to see him every day , on an informal basis , to get a chance to talk to him about home , family and school and to offer support where possible . |
| 3 | But Bodie softened his voice , teased Liz mercilessly , until she agreed to meet him a few minutes later , to be taken to Linda Stone 's school . |
| 4 | You ca n't hear nothing cos the glass is too thick , so you got to guess what the people are saying . |
| 5 | Competition could be fierce , as a young Dundee officer discovered when even the influence of the powerful David Scott failed to secure him a place for the voyage of 1801 because |
| 6 | When he got to know her a bit better , he was further excited by her strength of will , her independence , her commitment to the Irish nationalist cause , and — best of all , he reckoned — her utterly straight-faced enthusiasm for his explorations of the Celtic spirit-world . |
| 7 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 8 | Surtees was a good choice , but I never got to know him the way I did Graham Hill , Jackie Stewart and Pedro Rodriguez . |
| 9 | And a performance that helped make him the Queen Mum 's favourite . |
| 10 | IAN McCANN cruises the mean streets of Kingston to find out what a crap fist they 're making of the great man 's legacy , and to talk to some of those who helped make him the Third World 's finest musical ambassador . |
| 11 | His pen-and-ink drawings provided Minton with unrelieved amusement , as Lyttelton has recalled : Humphrey Lyttelton 's presence at Camberwell helped make it a centre for the beginnings of ‘ trad ’ , a jazz revival which replaced ‘ the polite and effete noise which had hitherto passed for genuine jazz ’ with a new vitality and energy . |
| 12 | And when they started to shout these people out shopping , cos everybody stopped to see what the fellers screaming about . |
| 13 | If she tried to evict him an undignified struggle would only ensue and she would n't give him the satisfaction . |
| 14 | He talked of ‘ the white man 's Christ ’ , invoked to preserve what the white man has got ; and of the ‘ black man 's Christ ’ — the Christ of suffering and sacrifice . |
| 15 | As Burn tried to tend him the plane exploded . |
| 16 | I stopped to find her a name . |
| 17 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 18 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 19 | But Yanek , the youngest grandson , tried and tried to remember what the sun-god had told him to do . |
| 20 | He vaguely tried to remember what the friar had told him . |
| 21 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 22 | He tried to sell him a picture . |
| 23 | Someone came to the shop and tried to sell him an old cross with paste stones in it . |
| 24 | A youth tried to sell me a Socialist Worker and seemed confused when I told him that in my experience the words were diametrically opposed . |
| 25 | He tried to sell me a Pottz picture . |
| 26 | Thiercelin knelt to pour himself a mug of soup from the bowl in the hearth . |
| 27 | WIMBLEDON boss Joe Kinnear promised to buy himself a walkie-talkie last night after landing a month-long touchline ban , writes Ben Bacon . |
| 28 | They sat down together facing each other , her face full of unaccustomed excitement , and then she rose to fetch him a dish to tickle his appetite , six pale gleaming molluscs like oysters , with wedges of lime around them , prettily , and a sprinkling of red pepper over them . |
| 29 | Koo Stark was out there in the powder room and seemed to identify with my predicament ; indeed she promised to procure me a long thin-necked vessel and return . |
| 30 | Masklin tried to imagine what a sea cow looked like . |