Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , I do n't think I knew what the word ‘ erudite ’ meant until I met Kenneth .
2 Why do you think I why do you think I gave you the fucking job eh ?
3 I got I told you the about a different bana .
4 Her own family has suffered the anguish of repossession , and her personal story of how her local Liberal Democrat-controlled council helped them made her the winner in the school 's mock election .
5 It eventually got that they were typed and put into cellophane covers which made it a lot easier .
6 Life continued as normal at Marham with four T.4s and two or three B.2s , two of the latter being designated B.2T because of a change in nav fit which gave them a Green Satin doppler and a GPI IV .
7 ‘ The man who assaulted you called you a dirty cop , or words to that effect .
8 ‘ I expect she gave you a good tea , ’ said my mother .
9 Or if your mother had got a say she made you a meat and tater pie in a little dish , if you took this little dish with you , the lady used to er warm it up for you .
10 The people who created it made themselves the masters of the Greek-speaking world within two centuries .
11 I expect he sent you the letter .
12 I expect he gived you a funny answer
13 When they divorced he gave her the house in a clean break settlement and paid twenty pounds a week maintenanace .
14 When you say it cost me an arm and a leg , you 're thinking in word pictures if you like it 's a metaphor and er in the in the picture it 's by the er Long John by the Long John Silver figure having not only one leg , but also one arm as well .
15 I if I say it cost you an arm and a leg ?
16 But hard as John Meaney tried he found it an uphill struggle against Hughes , who was firing on all cylinders , and his great ‘ cool ’ blessed with a wide repertoire of shots saw him a worthy winner 4–0 from seven frames .
17 One of the accusations used and levelled against er against Christianity against the , the evangelical message , against things like the , the mission of Graham and , and others is that it , it does n't meet the needs the , the material needs of people but if you deal with the persons spiritual needs , if their sins are forgiven , those problems that are causing the material problem , it 's amazing how there are dealt with as well , the best way to sober up a person , the best way to deal with a person who 's an alcoholic , the best way to deal with a person who is a drug addict , the best way to deal with a person who , who commits adultery is not by telling them the wrongs of those things , it 's not by trying to , to , to do , to , to , you know , to , to counsel them it 's presenting the gospel allowing Jesus Christ to come into their lives and to forgive them , that will make the person sober quicker than all the counselling in the world and Paul says I brought you the most important the fundamental thing , that Christ died for our sins Paul again when he 's writing to the Romans in chapter five and verse eight he says but God demonstrates his own love towards us , in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us so God did in Jesus Christ what we could n't do for ourselves , so all of you have sin , so all of my sin , and he came and he died on the cross and as he was dying there was that transmit there , for he was n't dying for his own sin buy he was dying for your sin and for mine , it was all piled on him and so when we except what Christ has done , when we come to that place and yes I believe that you died for me ,
18 Once he had said I showed him a concern which he had never met with before , even from his parents , and that he would love to visit my country one day .
19 Anyway , when the ambulance men came we made them a cup of tea , cos they said they a they 'd have been that busy they have n't had a break !
20 Herein lay a paradox : the PSBC was ‘ patronage [ good ] , that is , supporting projects of merit and quality ’ , whereas ‘ paternalism ’ [ bad ] referred to institutions , such as the BBC , which believed they knew what the public needed .
21 Stephen liked even the back-room staff to wear uniform , believing it gave them a more professional look and approach .
22 So when he saw the 301 project it gave him the idea of using ultra-modern airframe and engine technology and aerodynamics to achieve the same magic numbers with a single turboprop instead of two kerosene-guzzling pure jets .
23 Oh I do n't know he under , when you that told he understood it a lot more than when she said it and she sort of went all
24 I queried it , I mean she gave me a precise figure of twenty thousand , and six hundred and fifty five something or other .
25 When he did n't answer she shot him a fierce look .
26 ‘ Do you remember I asked you a question on your first day that you refused to answer ? ’ he said .
27 D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ?
28 Do you remember I phoned you a week or two ago about some books I wanted ?
29 Deceiving him gave her a fierce pleasure and , as they strolled along by the waterline , with Ben splashing beside them through the shallows , she kept her hatred burning red-hot with a litany of her grievances , chanted over and over inside her head : ‘ He only pretended to like you ; he could n't care less about you ; he thinks you 're thick .
30 When I arrived they showed me the letter they had received from the Chief Education Officer that morning which explained the proposed Statementing procedure :
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