Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seems nothing at all strange about the Church , which paid the salaries of these men and expected them to serve it , considering the question of whether or not they should be able to engage in an activity which , no matter how acceptable , would have diverted them from their main task . |
| 2 | ‘ You have explained me to myself , Harry , ’ he said slowly . |
| 3 | that was taught me by my grandmother , Annie Scanlon . |
| 4 | I know that you 've never forgiven me for what happened , and I do n't blame you , darling . |
| 5 | Nutty adjusted them for him . |
| 6 | Yes they 've stripped me of my cash for tonight . |
| 7 | He is leaving tomorrow , and I have parted them with my selfishness and my love . |
| 8 | We had seen and sensed them on our way up , their tentative postures , their unanimity of hesitation . |
| 9 | A physicist colleague has kindly calculated them for me . |
| 10 | Most previous commentators on the small towns have distinguished them from their larger counterparts on the basis of their usually haphazard and seemingly piecemeal development , though it has recently become clear that such a distinction , however useful , obscures recognizable variations among the surviving plans . |
| 11 | ‘ He can have heard nothing of himself at all , ’ said Cadfael contentedly . |
| 12 | Taking the first fortnight as a whole , four-fifths of voters had heard nothing about their local Conservative , Labour , and Alliance candidates but that figure dropped to little more than half in the second fortnight . |
| 13 | You 've not heard nothing about it ? |
| 14 | My parents both died before I left the School of Italian Studies so I had heard nothing about my family for over ten years . |
| 15 | Well I 've never heard nothing like it . |
| 16 | ‘ You say that you have heard nothing from him — as regards the future marriage , that is ? |
| 17 | We have heard nothing from him since he acknowledged your order . ’ |
| 18 | Seven weeks and five days since that cataclysmic day when Svend had interrupted their lovemaking , and she had heard nothing from him . |
| 19 | We 've heard nothing from him for the past four months since that heart attack in Italy . |
| 20 | He 'd heard nothing from them for over three months , and was forced to assume that they were either dead , or prisoners of the Nazis . |
| 21 | She confessed that Sally-Anne had written them on old ones Miss Laura had collected on earlier trips , and Miss Laura had posted them for her , to deceive us . |
| 22 | The Commander has assigned me to you . |
| 23 | Twenty years later , Charles reminded an assembly of how " a part of the realm was assigned me by my lord and father … and in it the metropolitan see of Sens then lacked a pastor . |
| 24 | She sits and watches , and they do not even realize that she has provoked them to it . |
| 25 | And she has assigned them to me . |
| 26 | Now the name was not a famous one , the cloth merchant having lived his life in the comparative obscurity common to most of us , and my patient had never before visited that part of the country — and yet the details he unearthed coincided perfectly with the facts he had given me during his regression . |
| 27 | My one pound , seventeen shillings had been put together over a number of years by saving money given me on my birthdays by relatives . |
| 28 | And then he said suddenly , ‘ That phone call Ah was waitin' fur — it was from the hotel Iris had given me as her address in Lima . |
| 29 | How did young Bruce become Uncle Bruce , to use the saucy sobriquet given me by my ever ebullient fellow presenter Richard Wyatt . |
| 30 | The old retainer who had received them on their first visit tried to help but Cranston pushed him gently away , saying it was a holiday and besides he was here at Sir Richard 's request to pursue his inquiries privately . |