Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bagman-fox , now on home ground , had delayed them by running up a long culvert . |
| 2 | Have you forgiven me for calling you ‘ carrots ’ ? ’ |
| 3 | That 's for the We actually calculated them by using the unit quantity |
| 4 | And you see there 's no permanent fence to the fields and so therefore I could put gates up at that road if I wanted to , but the Council has never consulted me about going to look at it , or going over my road . |
| 5 | And critics of the men inside both black and white communities have criticized them for causing bloodshed . |
| 6 | But environmentalists have criticized them for failing to address Southern countries ' real needs . |
| 7 | And , however bad their crimes against us were , they always justified them by saying ours were worse . |
| 8 | I 've tricked them into working for me . |
| 9 | It was reported that , when ZANU-PF held primary elections in mid-February to select its candidates , several senior party officials , including Joyce Mujuru ( Minister of Community Development and Co-operatives ) , had been defeated , but that Mugabe had reinstated them after nullifying the results . |
| 10 | ‘ However , current Education Minister John Patten said he regarded Church schools as making a crucial contribution to education but he had n't actually consulted them about opting out . ’ |
| 11 | In fact we turned up some gas shares on the way , but er and a bit of cash , but that was n't enough to pay the funeral accounts and she made no provision for paying any of the bills so I sold the gas shares towards paying the funeral account and then got shouted at by the er beneficiary children because I had n't consulted them about selling the gas shares and I said Well , they have to be sold because there 's bills to pay and there is no way of dealing with that . |
| 12 | He has already stopped me from saving up for a large format SLR camera ; my trusty 35-mm model will do well enough for the closeups of butterflies and flowers that interest me . |
| 13 | Things which , to my mind have been totally illogical — and yet nothing on this earth would have stopped me from doing them . ’ |
| 14 | The state 's farmers and bee-keepers might not have realised that they were coping with an externality , but that had not stopped them from organising a market . |
| 15 | Doors and bolts had been fixed , but in a three-month period it was said that ‘ 14 dozen locks ’ had been broken , the children had burned down the door , and even iron gates had not stopped them from gaining access to the roof and throwing stones on people below . |
| 16 | After you 'd totally devastated me by saying you did n't find me remotely attractive , I was left racking my brains to think of a way to change your mind . |
| 17 | People , my real friends , had respected me for coping so well after my mother 's death and for putting up with my financial situation at home . |
| 18 | It says that the money which it was prepared to commit to training will not meet the pleas of the training and enterprise councils , which are struggling to deliver the training guarantees which the Government have committed them to providing , and which can not go beyond the delivery of that guarantee to extend training opportunities in a serious or significant way . |
| 19 | How glad she was that Tom had finally badgered her into going . |
| 20 | In his own way he was as dangerous as Marcus — had n't he already trapped her into staying with him longer than she deemed either necessary or wise ? |
| 21 | She had never intended to become involved in this kind of conversation with the soldier , but somehow he had trapped her into replying . |
| 22 | Nobody could have blamed him for trying it on , could they ? |
| 23 | ‘ Had Diana been within 10 miles of Windsor Castle on the day of the fire , they would have blamed her for starting it , ’ admitted a senior royal source last night . |
| 24 | After nearly a decade down under he was overdue an entirely Australian subject — the Board of Control having disappointed him by refusing to let him write their official history : ‘ This is the one major cricket book still to be written in Australia . |
| 25 | He cited a Daily Mail article , rather curiously signed Editor , which had attacked him for presiding over the disappearance of ‘ an immense fortune ’ left hint by his father , and had concluded : ‘ It is difficult to see how the leader of a party who has lost his own fortune can hope to restore those of anyone else , or his country . |
| 26 | He had n't hurt her , and yet pain overwhelmed her with battering force . |
| 27 | Robbie was willing to bet Fen 's appearance had charmed her into saying that . |
| 28 | And although I had disappointed her by going into ‘ trade ’ , I was still the son of the house . |
| 29 | Oh , he had told lies and they had trapped him by asking for the names of other English agents in Paris . |
| 30 | Poor Stephen — she should n't have teased him by exaggerating her friendship with Martin the way she had . |