Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most patients reacted to injections of a number of substances and he made them up custom made ‘ vaccines ’ of supposed antidotes . |
| 2 | This enforced poverty made them easier targets for propaganda : if they left with no more than their allowance , they could be portrayed as shabby Untermenschen scuttling away like rats ; if they managed to outwit the system , then they were economic criminals fleeing with stolen goods . |
| 3 | Unfortunately their crude tactics , due to a very low educational level , made them better counter-agents than agents for the Bolsheviks . |
| 4 | You know and and it actually sort of , it made them really sort of think about quality and excellence and su and stuff like that which |
| 5 | Well , got nothing here Stewart . |
| 6 | On another occasion one child asked me why owls flew . |
| 7 | ‘ Sir Alfred was at Goodwood that day , ’ says Rudd , ‘ and asked me why de Graffenreid was blowing us off . |
| 8 | One day while out visiting with Father John a man asked me how things were in my country . |
| 9 | Increasingly , he found himself estranged from Laura , who , in the subsequent eleven years , ‘ never once asked me how things were going . |
| 10 | Oh yeah , we stuffed them twice heheheheh . |
| 11 | He asked them why elephants did n't ride bicycles and explained that it was because they had n't any thumbs to ring the bell with . |
| 12 | This group 's unsuccessful conduct of the war incurred them much unpopularity , and discontent at their domination of the king , together with rumours of corruption , self-seeking and extortion , underlay the commons ' attack upon them in the Good Parliament of 1376 . |
| 13 | While shooting in the beautiful Maldives last year , it cost me about £200 for a model , plus the various costs of transport and hotel . |
| 14 | Though not looking to Christmas to make up lost sales , Amberstone found itself about 15% up , said Sandy Bennet . |
| 15 | She felt it in every touch of his hand as he helped her over hazards . |
| 16 | When he 'd moored the boat and helped her out Michele followed her through the rear lobby and into the foyer . |
| 17 | The political police , the equivalent of Britain 's Special Branch , detained him yesterday morning . |
| 18 | His passage cost him just £10 . |
| 19 | Mr Hill 's huge jackpot cost him just 54p . |
| 20 | One of those accused told me that a proper legal defence cost him only £140.00 with legal aid , which he got back because they won . |
| 21 | The 12,000 unitholders who have invested in any of the 11 funds managed by Dumenil Trust Management , the French-owned unit trust group , found themselves this week locked into their investments when the fund managers suspended all dealings because they believed there was an error with pricing . |
| 22 | Which if nothing else , qualifies it as more mature than those Ministry of Agriculture officials who pronounced themselves this week to be ‘ absolutely happy ’ that it should now be on sale . |
| 23 | Mr Enoch Powell asked himself only weeks before the riots erupted in the British cities in 1981 . |
| 24 | We all sat round the van , the caravan about quarter to four and she 'd just got one , she 'd got one of her friends and they got theirs about quarter to four . |
| 25 | They specialise in interesting shirts as well as underwear which started as an experiment but became their best selling items . |
| 26 | I 'm gon na tell her , that you woke me up Bruce . |
| 27 | Cos we played them twice Witham did n't we ? |
| 28 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 29 | He told them how Howard 's words had shaken him , and said , ‘ There were things we did with the Security Forces in the forests of which I am not at all proud . |
| 30 | They just put them in the meat wagon and dropped them up town . |