Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This made them wish to take me to see something more lovely on the island . |
| 2 | I did n't see the new dog till it was nearly six months old and its mistress asked me to call to treat it for a slight attack of eczema . |
| 3 | If they asked me to say thank you very much at the end of a shit interview I would n't , and if they did n't like it , I 'd probably leave . |
| 4 | Quite why this put the scrutineers in a dilemma I do n't know , but they asked me to protest to get them off the hook . |
| 5 | They ( Barber ) asked me to come to see them if I was ever in Cornwall . |
| 6 | Something made me want to touch you . |
| 7 | The DHSS made me go to see them every day — I had a broken bone in my ankle but they still made me go every day ! |
| 8 | Mama made me promise to feed you before she agreed to go to bed . |
| 9 | Before he went out , he made me promise to give you this . ’ |
| 10 | She made me promise to destroy them , ‘ if anything ever happens to me ’ , she said . |
| 11 | Other times she made me promise to keep them for ever , to remember her by , and say a prayer She was a bit vague who it was I was to pray to . |
| 12 | Then she made me promise to get them back to her in one piece within a week and sold me two tickets to a Ward Bond Retrospective at her film club in Ponder 's End . |
| 13 | ‘ I came down from Manchester two days ago , to meet my fellow archdeacons , and the Bishop told me of your husband 's application and of course that made me wish to meet him , and to meet you . |
| 14 | But I realized I 'd said it so I tried to dig myself out the hole |
| 15 | ‘ It 's not that — I just realised I 've put you out of your bedroom , ’ she muttered , pulling on the socks . |
| 16 | Before I realised I 've got mine . |
| 17 | ( I realised I had to cancel them , otherwise I 'd get the balance down a bit , then get clothes fever again . ) |
| 18 | ‘ Ann helped me try to resuscitate him . |
| 19 | Well , finally she left , and I saw her to her jeep with the new hair-drier which I found I had to press her to keep . |
| 20 | The strap is a strong rubber one but I found I had to overtighten it at the surface , otherwise it became loose when my drysuit seal compressed at depth . |
| 21 | He found himself aching to see her . |
| 22 | When she found she had survived she felt like Lazarus . |
| 23 | This she did , however , rather rapidly and the next moment I found she had overtaken me and was standing before me , effectively barring my way . |
| 24 | Why it was thought appropriate to leave the important matter of imposing tax on building societies to secondary rather than primary legislation in this way remains a mystery ; but , whatever the explanation , the experiment was a total disaster and resulted in the Revenue producing some regulations in respect of a particular period of assessment which were so hopelessly flawed that the House of Lords found itself compelled to declare them void as being ultra vires . |
| 25 | It did n't hurt that much , but he pretended she 'd got him in the balls , hoping for a little wifely penitence . |
| 26 | His tousled hair gave him an appealingly boyish appearance , and Robbie found herself aching to smooth it for him , to run her fingers over the dark stubble on his cheeks . |
| 27 | ‘ Labour thought they were going to win a point today — they were rather disappointed when they found they had got it completely wrong . ’ |
| 28 | I almost caused an accident coming back from Bedford yesterday , there 's somebody in an X R three i right up my arse so I just coming onto the motorway , the M four to Bracknell and erm comes right up my arse and I had to come out cos there was this car coming on you know , from further up the the lane and it was coming on and I was already on , so I overtook it let it did to let it come out you know ? |
| 29 | The perusal of it swelled his heart with joy ; he found he had to read it twice , and the pleasure of its proclamation left him flushed from top to toe . |
| 30 | My father was a Gemini , and I knew your mother was a Sagittarian as soon as I found he 'd given her half the clip . |