Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A thousand needs that I 've spent most of my teenage years pretending do n't exist , and when they 've made themselves felt , so strongly that I ca n't fail to be aware of them , I 've crushed them , trying to control my appetite and cravings in every way that I know , fighting a pointless and endless war against myself . |
| 2 | He would have crushed them if he could . |
| 3 | So we set the scene , we look good , we have n't crushed them to death and he 's gon na take us into one or two areas |
| 4 | ‘ Look there , they are startling and snorting now — you have frightened them and they will not eat before the journey . |
| 5 | You 've frightened them sick — ’ |
| 6 | Frightened them , judged Alice , pleased this had been so , for she did feel that Jasper was sometimes a bit too casual about things . |
| 7 | Skirting a small lake , they had stared to see a great , grey fisher-bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge , until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamour . |
| 8 | Ashamed of having frightened me , he looked at me sweetly and began to sing Italian songs to make me forget the incident ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've frightened me stiff , ’ I said frankly . |
| 10 | I told him that this bizarre gift had frightened me , made me feel vulnerable ; and that I had felt compelled to develop a magical system of my own to prevent my hyperactive visual memory from destroying me altogether . |
| 11 | That had frightened me at first but now I thought the Star Zoo was wonderful . |
| 12 | frightened me |
| 13 | There seems nothing at all strange about the Church , which paid the salaries of these men and expected them to serve it , considering the question of whether or not they should be able to engage in an activity which , no matter how acceptable , would have diverted them from their main task . |
| 14 | I 've listed them . ’ |
| 15 | To simplify his thoughts he had listed them under two headings : first there was that which directly affected Belpan . |
| 16 | So I 've said I 've listed them well the important points for me were the Aldershot method the arousal curve and the need for audience content . |
| 17 | Some of them are on N two , that erm , not necessarily , in fact the majority of the forms in the supporting guidelines on manuals are not versioned yet but they , we followed the advice of Roy there and we have listed them in each of the guidelines with a statement of erm , we 've just , I mean , a clear listing there of each form and when we actually go to introduce the next time , reprint , we will then put version codes on them . |
| 18 | Of course it was just possible that something had delayed them ; they might even now be hurrying up the steep incline to the station . |
| 19 | Sometimes , new ideas involve such radically novel perspectives that the lack of key individuals ‘ in the chain of thought leading up to them … could easily have delayed them for … a generation ’ . |
| 20 | The bagman-fox , now on home ground , had delayed them by running up a long culvert . |
| 21 | There are readers whom , as Zuckerman is the first ( or second ) to acknowledge , he can drive to the complaint that he has sex , and family matters , and Jewish matters , on the brain : ‘ I want him to take his manuscript and mail it to his mother ’ , as I have heard them cry . |
| 22 | And Goldberg , in his pad : I have never said or written any of the sentiments attributed to me here , though I have heard them from the mouths and read them from the pens of others . |
| 23 | Burden , who had heard them , had memorised the words and repeated them to his chief . |
| 24 | I 've heard them all . |
| 25 | He 'd heard them . |
| 26 | But she could not remember where she had heard them before . |
| 27 | Tammuz' jaded beliefs were not that novel : Quincx had heard them spill from many a Tech-Green 's lips ; but then Ewan had always thought himself unique . |
| 28 | ‘ The world is crumbling around me , Wilson , ’ she said , the words so faint only a finely attuned ear could have heard them . |
| 29 | The performances may sound hoarse , and limited in range ; but once you 've heard them , you find them running through your mind . |
| 30 | The sing-song voice , the perverse placing of stress — you 've heard them , you know what I 'm referring to . |