Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have tricked me but have themselves been tricked . ’ |
| 2 | He saw them in terms of the hours of training he had given them and regarded their departure as something to be listed in the debit columns . |
| 3 | I could n't help remembering the pleasure I had had in my clothes , how keen my mother had been on my wearing them , how we had often designed them and chosen them together and my mother had made most of them . |
| 4 | ‘ It will certainly release a lot of the pressure that has surrounded them and made their personal lives very difficult . |
| 5 | When I looked then at first I could n't see , it was all — you know — black like inside my eyes , but I knew they were open and I could hear the kids yelling — and when I got up he was lying on the sofa , snoring — he must 've just dropped me and let me where I lie- ’ She stopped and Clare sat quietly waiting . |
| 6 | Gabriel had broken his apprentice 's bond and no one had hanged him or flogged him or thrown him into prison . |
| 7 | They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people . |
| 8 | ‘ Jack must have caught him and locked him in there . ’ |
| 9 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 10 | And why should the palm be so thickly clotted , almost as if another 's hand had lifted it and smeared it into the blood at the throat ? |
| 11 | ‘ As you can see , I 've simplified it and brought it up to date … |
| 12 | Since that time , and especially since the year 1914 , every single change in the English landscape has either uglified it or destroyed its meaning , or both . |
| 13 | He had skirted it and approached them from behind . |
| 14 | Who he was she could n't say , because the room was too dark , but he must have left the front door open and the wind must have caught it and made it shut with a crash . |
| 15 | he 's took it and sold it , yeah |
| 16 | It 's important to establish the invariable habit of going through replies to all your searches ( the same principle applies to the practical enquiries and requisitions on title ) , ticking each one after you have considered it and found it satisfactory ; if the contrary is the case , or if , for example , some information is disclosed that ought to be passed on to your client , mark it accordingly , and thereafter tick it when you " ve dealt suitably with the item . |
| 17 | Which brought her back to the sack and to the Friar who had carried it and left it in their care . |
| 18 | Oh , I think somebody 's picked it and thrown it down . |
| 19 | Michael Cross , speaking on behalf of Mr Bond , who bought the picture at Sotheby 's in 1987 , confirmed to The Independent that ‘ Sotheby 's approached us and offered us a loan facility against the picture . ’ |
| 20 | The attack on Malpas 's house certainly seems to have alarmed them and led them to co-operate with the authorities against the rebels ( 22 , p.161 ) . |
| 21 | If he drew a chair or a pair of boots he managed to convey the effort of production that went into them , as if he had shaped them and fitted them together himself . |
| 22 | Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable . |
| 23 | I wanted to believe that this man — this stranger — had seen me and wanted me . |
| 24 | Anyone who has seen them or knows their whereabouts is asked to contact detectives at Craigavon 325144 . |
| 25 | ‘ But they have long since vanished from Ireland , Fergus , and it may be that I will be the last Queen to have seen them and heard them . |
| 26 | If you knew about the letter , you could just have phoned me and told me not to open it . |
| 27 | Who could have drawn the roots , the branches , the fibres , the tendrils that have fed them and bound them ? |
| 28 | Master Buckingham has polished them and put them away , locked in a casket . |
| 29 | ‘ If the knackers had bid for him I would have outbid him and kept him myself , I do n't care how much it would have cost , ’ she says . |
| 30 | Rocky introduced them as Carl Wood , Jubal Cantrell and Austen Parker , but Jim Miller would have recognised the latter two as Jube and Red , the pair who had baited him and given him such a hard time before Rocky 's intervention had rescued him . |