Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | then go on to the ones you marked as " different " and listen to them read one after the other . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I asked him about the disrepair of the buildings . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When I asked him about the Galapagos T-shirt he was wearing , he merely snapped , ‘ No , I have n't been . |
| 9 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I asked him about the Lady Eleanor and he replied : ‘ She is near to death , a fall , an accident . |
| 13 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 14 | I asked him after the event what he thought . |
| 15 | I asked her about the changes in her life since the NI featured her in 1979 . |
| 16 | ‘ I asked her about the make and she said she did n't know . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But you said you you when I asked you about the clinic on Street you thou you thought had heard of it . |
| 20 | ‘ You remember me , I asked you about the meters … well my car was just here on this corner and … ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 23 | I pinned it to the corkboard with a red drawing pin and a light heart , and went upstairs again to change back into jodhpur boots to deal with the terrain and to pick up the map and the compass in case I could n't find the trail . |
| 24 | Terrified that it would try to escape or fly away , and not wanting to risk the Corporal 's anger , I pinned it to the ground by leaning a large stone against it . |
| 25 | So I chucked it in the Tyne . |
| 26 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 27 | I made it to the front of the clubhouse just in time to seize Jack 's bag and head for the practice ground . |
| 28 | Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there . |
| 29 | The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log . |
| 30 | Maggie approached Godfrey and said over his shoulder , ‘ I made it by the pound cake method . |