Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You asked for it Mister Smith … |
| 2 | ‘ I distinctly asked for it bien done . ’ |
| 3 | The sun took advantage of my bare skin and drew from me rivers of sweat . |
| 4 | Surely no tide could have them if they clasped hands and fled from it side by side . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it was this detested regime which managed to make its mark in the New World , for the successful urban renewal of Paris combined with the great prestige which the city enjoyed as a centre of art and culture drew to it Americans of all kinds . |
| 6 | I seen to them stockings … ’ |
| 7 | He was shown the puppets too , and the performance can not have gone entirely without excitement , because he mentioned to me explosions backstage and things falling down . |
| 8 | As soon as he learnt about it Ted Bolton , the headmaster of the nearby secondary school , persuaded the farmer to allow his school children to clear the pavement . |
| 9 | The plane bumped to a halt , the engine coughed and died , and two figures in leather flying helmets swung out of the open cockpit and came towards them arm in arm . |
| 10 | It 's not that , but , every time he came he came near us George was saying coming out with an excuse , er that 's a phone for you . |
| 11 | Ian came with us part of the way , so we took two cars and left ours at the finishing point and Ian 's at the entrance to the track . |
| 12 | actually I , the dose that I had to take , I cut them down to see how it would go but , I must admit , I suffered from it Doctor , |
| 13 | did it , it was all road transported in them days . |
| 14 | And at the same time there came before him Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count , who fell on her knees before him and said , Sir , I am the daughter of Count Don Gomez of Gormaz , and Rodrigo of Bivar has slain the Count my father , and of three daughters whom he has left I am the youngest . |
| 15 | Lester added to them Crawford , Buster Keaton , Sir Michael Hordern and Roy Kinnear , and began the hazardous task of amending the script and Stephen Sondheim 's musical numbers . |
| 16 | In Libya the peace which flowed from state justice , impersonal , universal , was not enough for the Zuwaya : they added to it peaces of their own manufacture , tailored to the social personalities involved in particular breaches of the peace , guaranteed by specific and contingent undertakings made between Muslims . |
| 17 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 18 | The idea that his father might have visited prostitutes came to him years ago , during a spate of murders of prostitutes . |
| 19 | There 's a couple who came to me Mark ! |
| 20 | He came to me time after time , as useless as a surcharged phonograph — drunk on Byron , Shelley , or Keats . |
| 21 | Even so it would be nice to have an indication on the screen that this command prompt came to you courtesy of Windows . |
| 22 | The girl came to you Leigh that time ! |
| 23 | she came to us Paula took her up to Safeways Safeways in Carlton Colville and she said she did an enormous shop |
| 24 | These and other similar resonances seemed to me hand-fashioned for Johnson 's interest — but time and again , no comment . |
| 25 | It seemed to us nonsense that the benefit system should be duplicating the role of educational provision in that way . |
| 26 | It seemed to us pupils that the authorities ( teachers , but perhaps more especially matrons ) were obsessed with preventing any such thing from occurring . |
| 27 | Now his father " conferred on him weapons and a crown and the part of the kingdom between the Seine and the Loire " , that is , the region known in the ninth century as Neustria . |
| 28 | But I left in a hurry because the piglets ' mother did n't approve of a stranger wandering among her brood and she came at me open-mouthed , barking explosively . |
| 29 | As the long silence lengthened between them Laura desperately tried to find some adequate words to express her disgust at his actions . |
| 30 | And just filled a net basket of eggs and put it down in the in the water and the water flowed through it kind of . |