Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , one of them attacked it with a large branch , striking it a damaging blow . |
| 2 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
| 3 | then go on to the ones you marked as " different " and listen to them read one after the other . |
| 4 | Erm , if erm , if one of them contradicted me in the class , I burst into tears , I think you 'd think something was seriously wrong with me , would n't you ? |
| 5 | Moreover , although their new jobs were temporary , not all of them regarded them as a " stop-gap " . |
| 6 | On the following Monday some of them pursued him to a review that was taking place on Wimbledon Common , while others went to the City , occupied the Royal Exchange and picketed the coffee houses , carrying placards reading More Wages . |
| 7 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 8 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 9 | So I asked them in the lodge like do n't do any damage and Tom was in e he gave them a good lecture so and the lads in the lodge said , Well look you tell them as well not to do this attitude and perhaps you 've seen it on these flumes when they saw a crowd that was there they were changing gear with the Land Rover and through you know like anybody in the way you 'd be underneath . |
| 10 | ‘ I clearly got up his nose when I asked him about a report which disputed his status as a big box-office draw , ’ says Barry . |
| 11 | I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings . |
| 12 | It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here . |
| 13 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
| 14 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 15 | I asked him about the girls and he told me to offer them drinks , talk to them , spend 1,000 francs on them , and I would be away . |
| 16 | When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I asked him about the Lady Eleanor and he replied : ‘ She is near to death , a fall , an accident . |
| 18 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 19 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 20 | I asked him for an instance of the difference between bookselling in Knightsbridge , London , and Union Street , Glasgow . |
| 21 | I asked him after a lecture he gave in Cambridge , and he looked at me in a vague way and said yes , he would . |
| 22 | I asked him after the event what he thought . |
| 23 | I asked her about the changes in her life since the NI featured her in 1979 . |
| 24 | ‘ I asked her about the make and she said she did n't know . |
| 25 | I asked her about the letter and she kne she said she could n't remember anything about it but she filled in something when they came back from Belfast . |
| 26 | I asked her about the letter and she said she could n't remember anything about it but she filled in something when they came back from Belfast and she said open it , so I opened it and it 's one of these things er if you book to go to Dublin before May the whatever , the end of May , then if you went again in the Autumn , you you get er fifty pounds worth of vouchers or something , you go half price . |
| 27 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
| 28 | But you said you you when I asked you about the clinic on Street you thou you thought had heard of it . |
| 29 | ‘ You remember me , I asked you about the meters … well my car was just here on this corner and … ’ |
| 30 | I asked you through the Medau News last year to all help and make our fund raising this year a really great success and when you know that the figure at the time of going to press is over £2,600 you will all be as pleased as our Treasurer is . |