Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To illustrate the way many of them operated he cited the case of a widow who in 1894 borrowed £50 from a London loan bank on the security of her furniture which was valued at £250 . |
| 2 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course , why do you think I asked him to attend the opening of the store ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I asked him to get the UFO files opened . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I asked him to hand the letter to you . |
| 6 | Well I asked him to bring the dust bins in . |
| 7 | ‘ I asked him to play the most tortured , painful lead possible — the most horrible thing he could come up with ! ’ laughs Matthew . |
| 8 | When I asked him to itemize the price , so I could add it up for myself , the total came to over £100 less than he 'd quoted for the bundle . |
| 9 | I asked her to clean the place and make our supper , ’ said Mother . |
| 10 | At this point a friend of mine appeared , whose house is nearby , so I asked her to call the vet and to bring me a couple of bandages to keep the flies off until the vet arrived . |
| 11 | I asked her to meet the press off the back of the BAC One-Eleven as it came to a stop in front of us . |
| 12 | I 'm also thrilled by the terrific response to my December letter , when I asked you to pinpoint the key issues that you believe should be tackled by the Government in order to put Britain back on the right tracks for 1992 : not surprisingly , childcare comes high on your list , as it does in the questionnaire . |
| 13 | Rachel I asked you to take the glasses through . |
| 14 | What we did was he draws them out every morning cos I collared him stuck the towels over his shoulders and said just put us them over there . |
| 15 | ‘ I had the chance to go out when there were only four cars on the track , but I made them change the car which meant I went out in the busy section . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I made her face the truth , ’ he grated , laying Isabel down on a bench by the door . |
| 17 | A forward has a sixth sense and from an early stage I realised I had the corner back in my pocket . |
| 18 | ‘ I realised it lacked the ring of truth , ’ Silas said while regarding her intently . |
| 19 | Does the Prime Minister recall that , on 26 February 1991 , I met him to discuss the case of my constituent , John Hall , who is seriously ill with leukaemia , an illness contracted while he was serving on Christmas island ? |
| 20 | I expected you to produce the infant out of the basket . |
| 21 | Even as I shouted I sensed the utter absurdity of my words and the ludicrous figure I presented , a slovenly , plump young man , so obviously clumsy and ineffectual , rabbit 's ears of shirt-tail escaping from my waistband . |
| 22 | I found myself acting the part of a wooer only too well . |
| 23 | For much of the time it took me through farmland , amidst the pleasant aroma of meadows , and often I found myself slowing the Ford to a crawl to better appreciate a stream or a valley I was passing . |
| 24 | Many were the afternoons when I found myself priming the athenor with a set of little bellows , while Mr Broadhurst waved a caduceus about . |
| 25 | And for the first time in my life I found myself appreciating the statuesque Gallic appearance of my hooter . |
| 26 | I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time . |
| 27 | In the 1970s , as a Whitehall journalist with a historical background and an interest in political science , I found myself reading the Cabinet papers of the Attlee Administration as each new batch was declassified and comparing the performance of the Labour governments of 1945–51 with those of Wilson ( 1974–6 ) and Callaghan ( 1976–9 ) which I was engaged in reporting . |
| 28 | I found myself thinking the ordinary , commonplace thoughts . |
| 29 | In saner times , I found myself watching the wheel . |
| 30 | I found myself starting the INSET scheme with probationers which was quite different from what I envisaged . |