Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett was nodding in agreement when a knock at the door interrupted them and a short , dumpy figure entered . |
| 2 | You list all your interruptions , when they occurred , who made them and the reason . |
| 3 | I was on my way to the bank with £7,000 when a masked gang , carrying guns , attacked me and a friend who was with me . |
| 4 | One interviewer asked me whether the riot was not a cry for help by the rioters . |
| 5 | ‘ Y-you asked me that the first time we met . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You asked me if the garage had returned my car , when you 'd got it under lock and key all the time ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ A lot of people asked me if the staff would lose their jobs . |
| 8 | But it soon became evident that there were many kinds of interferon , all produced when cells were exposed to particular viruses but varying in their exact nature according to the cells which produced them and the species of animal from which the cells originated . |
| 9 | Objects ought to lead to investigations about the society that produced them and the people who used them . |
| 10 | ‘ The nurses panicked and made me and the other mother sign forms saying that we definitely had our own babies . ’ |
| 11 | Its honours for impresarios and maverick businessmen — what The Times called examples of ‘ unrepentant Darwinism , of the business survival of the fittest and of nature red in tooth and claw ’ — so appalled them and the Palace that it took several weeks for approval to be obtained . |
| 12 | I spoke to Stansted , Essex , on the telephone and asked them if the would accept a cheque for the fuel , to which the reply was ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 13 | Robert ( 4.1 ) made his and the teacher said , ‘ It does n't quite fit , does it ? ’ |
| 14 | A shop assistant promised me that a head torch would ‘ bring me down off the mountain after dark ’ . |
| 15 | They were known to the Romans , but no one afterwards used them until the Dover Road was given mile-marks in 1663 . |
| 16 | The two women grinned widely at her as she approached them and the elder of the two spoke after Ruth had tried haltingly to explain why she was here . |
| 17 | As all entries in the database are tagged with the name of the person who entered them and the date of entry , certain types of retrieval can be done independently of the semantic net . |
| 18 | No one visited her and no one telephoned . |
| 19 | They promised her that the reign of terror would be over before the year was out . |
| 20 | I doubt whether they caught him because no one ever asked me to make a statement or come to court ; but then you never know , he may have pleaded guilty . |
| 21 | Someone found her before the farmer did and so she survived . |
| 22 | Wilson went and it was more the going that helped her than the services themselves . |
| 23 | His lips caught her as the water cascaded around them , and it was like being kissed under a waterfall . |
| 24 | Dandelion overtook him and the two disappeared among the ilex trees . |
| 25 | But this man — this arrogant de Rochefort creature — galled her as no one had ever done before . |
| 26 | In June the chairman of the opposition Birlik organisation , Abdurakhim Pulatov , needed emergency hospital treatment for skull fractures after four men beat him and a companion with metal bars as they left an interview at a police station in the capital Tashkent . |
| 27 | It sustained her when the pain inside her became near-unbearable , and it was not for sharing . |
| 28 | so therefore the Irish people designed it and the Irish people gone bust and out of business |
| 29 | I was interested to see that the Financial Times and The Spectator picked the same phrase — they described it as a ’ pyrrhic victory ’ . |
| 30 | And he reported it and the put on a double watch that night . |