Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men who had not heard them arrive in the courtyard looked up in surprise . |
| 2 | Tammuz' jaded beliefs were not that novel : Quincx had heard them spill from many a Tech-Green 's lips ; but then Ewan had always thought himself unique . |
| 3 | Mind you I 've heard them shouting at him . |
| 4 | Yet it was the poem that brought Wordsworth to the notice of clerics in need of sermon material ( his poems were used for this purpose throughout the last century , and I have heard them used in this ) . |
| 5 | I 've heard them talking about you . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 've never heard me complain about Annette 's cooking . ’ |
| 7 | He had heard me talking to the Princess . |
| 8 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 9 | But we all went swimming on Tuesday nights at Hamilton baths , and I did better than some because my father had taught me to swim on holiday . |
| 10 | Nobody could have recognized me walking up Stuart Street . |
| 11 | Decisions of the court upon the meanings of phrases used in Acts of Parliament may come , in the course of time , to give them the quality of terms of art which Parliament may well be assumed to have intended them to bring with them when used in subsequent legislation . |
| 12 | The crime of syphilis had made me ban sex from my mind for weeks ; now I was found not guilty half an hour with a textbook Conchis had given me to look at had convinced me his diagnosis was right — the libido rose strong . |
| 13 | When Mortimer had assigned everyone positions for the operation — Ace , Benny and Petion to remain with him — he checked his watch . |
| 14 | That one will be completed I imagine within the next couple of weeks . |
| 15 | Well the honourable gentleman as always makes er more than a debating point , I think he makes a serious point which er deserves to be answered , erm it is not , if I can put it this way , the intention of these orders er to turn auditors into er snoopers or narks er and to do so I think runs some very serious risks , not only of reducing and undermining the relationship between auditors and their clients , not only of imposing very substantial additional cost burdens on auditors which will have to be borne by companies and ultimately their clients , but also there has an example he 's given I think to be some difference , put it no more than that between public money and private money , even though I acknowledge that were talking here about the trusteeship in some cases of of er d er public deposits and funds . |
| 16 | One final point I would make is is that there has been a a little bit of an impression given I think in some comments this morning that we have a a virtual free for all as regards the availability of agricultural land and er the marked change that it has been said to occur since nineteen eighty . |
| 17 | I remember how , when I was a naughty boy as I usually was , there being no corporal punishment , I was led about on a bit of string by my Headmaster , and one day when I was being reprimanded I laughed in the Headmaster 's face — I have always been defiant to all who tried to control me . |
| 18 | They 'll be exclamations and things they 're just exclamations that they 've heard I think on television . |
| 19 | And we 've educated them to go onto next day , and if we 're not performing we lose them . |
| 20 | And erm and I made the point that I tipped all your lot out of I said what and I had n't let them go in the classroom and I said it 's a new thing but I said they got their coats on they 're too macho to wear them that 's their problem , you know ! |
| 21 | The seriousness of the revolt was evidenced by the fact that Soapy Simon , an arch-appeaser who wanted above everything to be liked , had become their spokesman and had let them cram into his room and sit it out ( with a break for dinner at the Savoy , of course ) until the PM gave his answer . |
| 22 | What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years . |
| 23 | You have warm feelings for her too , but you 've let me succeed in courting her ! |
| 24 | Think what I shall say is , I shall myself quite simply , if it ever gets out I 'll say well look I know full well that you would n't have let me stop at Helena 's you would have objected to it I said , but Andy 's mum and dad , Andy was like pretty bad so we left him there and I said I stopped up to help look after him . |
| 25 | They had let me slip through the net earlier ; they would n't exactly be fans of mine . |
| 26 | ‘ I did ask him why he had n't let me know on his way there that he would be coming later . |
| 27 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |
| 28 | She should have let me prescribe for her ; I know an excellent liniment … " |
| 29 | Always grumbling , he had threatened them with all kinds of dreadful punishment if he had caught them walking in St Andrew 's churchyard or sheltering in the porch . |
| 30 | He had not expected me to ask about his 1936 visit to Nazi Germany . |