Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it was the poem that brought Wordsworth to the notice of clerics in need of sermon material ( his poems were used for this purpose throughout the last century , and I have heard them used in this ) . |
| 2 | The number of listed companies rose by 428 during the four years , but the number of firms auditing them fell by 39 . |
| 3 | You see , you 'd think I knew about these things would n't you , you 'd think I knew |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , do n't you think I thought of that ? |
| 5 | I do n't think I reacted to this story in the way Stuart expected . |
| 6 | I do n't think I did at all Dennis . |
| 7 | The Seagate drives I used for this article required 2 jumper connections made on the master drive , and all the connectors removed from the slave drive … |
| 8 | I , I mean I went like this into dinner okay , and I suppose everyone was like what 's she doing in a skirt or whatever cos they were all like looking and then like half way when I was eating I could feel them all staring at me and laughing and Jim and that lot were laughing and I could see Charlie |
| 9 | I think so , there 's got to be one person I mean I thought about this long and hard and there 's just no way , it can not be done by committee it would not work cos then |
| 10 | Yeah , pull the trigger my dad , my dad goes I went like this , he said do n't worry it 's not loaded fired , just past my dad 's head |
| 11 | Well as I say I went for this interview and she phoned me last Sunday did n't she ? |
| 12 | And when I say I asked for more polenta , you will know that we were dealing with an intake situation of Road to Damascus proportions . |
| 13 | And onto ou round Australia and that and I mentioned I started in New Foundland , yes . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't know you felt like that , ’ she said . |
| 15 | An inquest into Beverley 's death found she died of natural causes but had slipped through the net of caring representatives like her GP and social worker . |
| 16 | These have all featured in GH and we 'll be keeping you informed of any new developments . |
| 17 | The magazine is vital for communication between the Society and its members , keeping you informed about conservation issues and the action taken by the RSPB . |
| 18 | The French say she died of ill health ! |
| 19 | So this was quite a mission which I believe has not been adequately covered in the history and was a forerunner of things to come and like I say we got through that mission without any damage , our gunners got to shoot at the first German fighters and we were an experienced crew with one mission under our belt . |
| 20 | When the music stopped they looked at each other for a long moment , then reluctantly drew apart . |
| 21 | The two men found they agreed on many points about today 's press . |
| 22 | ‘ There are , of course , ’ she said severely , ‘ but if you do n't know he went into one or other , would n't it be best to try something more general first ? ’ |
| 23 | A great cultural movement like the twelfth-century Renaissance can not be explained in simple terms : the influences and the inspiration which created it flowed through many channels , some of them deep beneath the ground . |
| 24 | They say it existed as such for millions of years . |
| 25 | The company had a prototype built and running , and employees say it ran at 51.2 GFLOPS peak — three times the performance of the best machine commercially available . |
| 26 | As a policy that might have succeeded it suffered from impossible political equivocation . |
| 27 | One told of their kind offer to look after her garden while she was away and how she came back to find it stripped of all the ripe fruit and the choicest vegetables . |
| 28 | It seems unlikely that the dance was copied into the score at the wrong point : if it had been , one would expect to find it headed by some warning that it belonged several pages later — otherwise severe complications would result in orchestral parts copied from the score . |
| 29 | His last owner found he suffered from many anxiety-induced health problems including cribbing , psychosomatic skin conditions , and chronic colic ; and also behavioural problems including tongue over the bit , reluctance to eat , fear of being in a large yard or paddock , inability to walk , trot , or canter properly , and sheer terror if he thought he had done something wrong ! |
| 30 | Unfortunately they were again delayed by rough terrain , and when they got to the road they found it choked with German armour heading for the front . |