Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he led them in Korea he was actually from the Cheshire Regiment . |
| 2 | He asked me in German what I had come for but I said ; untruthfully , ‘ Nicht verstehen . ’ |
| 3 | ’ Blenkarn received the goods but never paid for them and sold them to Cundy who knew nothing of his fraud . |
| 4 | A sold them to B who did not collect them . |
| 5 | He sold them to B who did not take delivery . |
| 6 | And sold them to children who passed by his door |
| 7 | Messiahs appeared , as we all know , under the procuratorships of Cuspius Fadus and Antonius Felix , and Josephus decried them as men who deceived and deluded the people by their pretence of having received from God in the wilderness the signs of liberty ( Jos . |
| 8 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 9 | Extract 2 oh listen I wanted to tell you one of the girls in my supply class we 'll hoover when we come back wo n't we she said to me she looked at my shoes and she said you 've got flashy shoes or something I said I got them in Spain she said Miss are you Spanish I thought it was really funny |
| 10 | That 's where I got them in Bewise they 're closing down or something or |
| 11 | But every time she mentioned them to Fernando he assured her they were quite capable of looking after themselves and promptly closed the subject . |
| 12 | We 've , the protest succeeded in focusing a spotlight on this northern test site where the Soviets hope to continue nuclear testing after their own people stopped them in Khazakstan They 're rattled and they 're angry with us , and now they 're punishing us by preventing us from having direct communication with our friends and finding out that they 're safe and well . |
| 13 | But this was only one of a variety of vessels , some of them much larger , it seems , used by the Vikings , and it is the accident that they still used them for burials which has enabled a small number to survive — the conversion to Christianity may be said to have deprived us for ever of the best evidence we might have had of medieval navigation as it developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 14 | The week Miles reviewed them for EVO they changed their name to the Pink Floyd . |
| 15 | When he found himself in front his main concern was not whether he might hold on to win but whether he would follow the right course . |
| 16 | Lindsey felt the faint colour tinge her cheeks as she helped herself to coffee she did n't really want . |
| 17 | Then , just when Rachel was feeling she wanted it to go on forever , this exciting masquerade between the two of them where it seemed as if the rest of the world did n't exist , she found herself beside Danny who began stuttering and waving his arms , obviously trying to tell her something . |
| 18 | She started work at 14 and by the time she found herself at Vons she 'd held a variety of jobs . |
| 19 | As soon as she drew up to the roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road , she found herself in traffic which stretched as far as the eye could see , and when she switched on the car radio , she discovered that the only sound it would make was an assortment of squeaks and crackles . |
| 20 | When William I was to meet Alexander III in 1887 , Bismarck provided him with notes which included the words ‘ Au temps où nous vivons plus qu'ä aucune autre époque de l'histoire , il est de l'intérêt des grandes monarchies d'éviter la guerre … même en Allemagne — si contre toute attente nous venions à ètre vaincus — les chances de la république dêmocratique ou sociale gagneraient considérablement par notre défaite . ’ |
| 21 | The bank provided him with £40,000 which , coupled with his redundancy money , provided the £70,000 he needed to get started . |
| 22 | A likely explanation is that , although in book 2 he again collaborated with Danchet ( nos. 1–4 ) , and worked with another eminent librettist , Fuselier ( nos. 5–6 ) , they provided him with poems whose dramatic interest is uneven . |
| 23 | Lucy stepped into her warmest black and white trousers and high-necked top , and when the appetising aroma of sizzling bacon and eggs drew her towards breakfast she found the dining-room to be nicely heated by the logs blazing in the large open fireplace . |
| 24 | When I helped him into bed he said , with some echo of his old authority , that nothing was to change while he was here ; that I was to go on with my work ; that he would teach me to play chess at last ; that he was absolutely thrilled to be out of hospital , and it would be a positive delight to look after himself . |
| 25 | Yet what is interesting is that , when a query was raised as to the meaning and effect of subsection ( 2 ) , in the context of the liability of journalists to search and interrogation , the Minister of State described it in terms which are consistent only with its having been inserted to cover the case of a holder who himself was a party to the criminal purpose . |
| 26 | Since the case , the Law Commissioners have considered the matter and dismissed it in terms which raised doubts as to whether the full implications of the issues were understood . |
| 27 | She used it with people who did n't know her very well . |
| 28 | Yo , we got plenty of clocks we can plug in from . |
| 29 | If Felipe thought she would take the husband off his hands while he amused himself with Candace he was very much mistaken ! |
| 30 | When they told me at work she 'd bought that , I was , cos they lived up at Green Lane I thought my God he 'd have they 've picked a a bad spot there cos there 's no flood protection at all there . |