Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to face the handicaps of severe diabetes but , true to Greek ideals , she endured them with stoicism ; only on four occasions in 30 years did she break down under these cruel burdens . |
| 2 | But the grasses whispered nothing awake , the fetch |
| 3 | Jack and two others who had witnessed the performance , found me and piloted me back to the warmth and safety of the ski-cabin . |
| 4 | Secondly , we must recall that the mental conflicts which I am identifying as the origins of human society and civilized behaviour — essentially those portrayed in the story of Oedipus — were as intensely painful and unpleasurable to those who experienced them then as they are to those who experience them in our own times . |
| 5 | But even then research into the old approved schools showed children who experienced them had a reconviction rate 49 per cent higher than would otherwise have been expected from their characteristics and records . |
| 6 | He asked nothing but justice of Heaven , and of man he asked only a fair field ; and his father seeing of how good heart he was , gave him his sword and his blessing . |
| 7 | Simon looked at him curiously , but asked nothing . |
| 8 | They were treated well and they asked nothing more of life . |
| 9 | Good girl ! " he commended Lally as kindly as he would any keen bitch , and asked nothing further . |
| 10 | But he asked nothing ; it was not his habit to woo men from their clan allegiance , or try to make dishonest use of a man he wished to employ honestly . |
| 11 | My Lord let me speak plainly , I introduced the topic of when he was recaptured , I asked nothing about what was . |
| 12 | This despot conceived great projects and realized them … |
| 13 | I was bewitched by her , I think to be freer than became me , though I had no intention to carry the jest further . |
| 14 | The first two rounds were on the first day of the Championships , and I cruised them comfortably . |
| 15 | From its windows a crowd , led by John Žižka , threw the anti-Hus councillors to the crowd below , who promptly lynched them . |
| 16 | I was at the top end one , and all the draught come through the door , paralysed me . |
| 17 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 18 | On one occasion Clara 's class purchased a pound of sausages , took them in with them , and roasted them on one of the burners , and ate them , in full scent and in fairly good view ; Mrs Hill appeared not to notice , and talked quietly on of Boyle 's law . |
| 19 | MARK ‘ HE SLIMED ME ’ CASWELL tracked our sluggy hero to his lair for the full slippery story . |
| 20 | He might also have said , as he had on countless occasions , that although he had constantly looked to the British for advice , he distrusted them acutely . |
| 21 | Excluded from power by the new king who understandably distrusted them , discredited by their connexion with the defeated Jacobites , the Tories as a significant Parliamentary group soon ceased to exist . |
| 22 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 23 | He lowered me into a chair at the foot of the stairs and stood above me critically . |
| 24 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
| 25 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 26 | One year prior to this she consulted me because of night sweats and oedema . |
| 27 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 28 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 29 | Court archives included much material of interest , but the people who consulted them were almost exclusively clerks who needed to establish points for cases : they were not used for history-making . |
| 30 | During the Falklands War , Mrs Thatcher was punctilious about keeping full Cabinet informed about major developments , and consulted them before implementing the bigger decisions . |