Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One year prior to this she consulted me because of night sweats and oedema . |
| 2 | Corbett was nodding in agreement when a knock at the door interrupted them and a short , dumpy figure entered . |
| 3 | The moment I touched the ground I knew why — the excessive ( to me — but normal to Tiree residents ) wind whipped me and my heavily laden briefcase into the lounge where Peter McMillan , Manager of Scarinish Branch offered me the relative calm of his car . |
| 4 | Did he need a bit of help with his I mean a lot of them did made them that sort of I just found a lot of was so so behind and so |
| 5 | The grey and stormy skies made them if anything greener . |
| 6 | You list all your interruptions , when they occurred , who made them and the reason . |
| 7 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 8 | Juliet smelled them as soon as she was inside the house . |
| 9 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 10 | The day after those comments , Robert Dole , the Republican leader in the Senate , branded them as ‘ incredible ’ . |
| 11 | Next came a terrace of three three-storey houses , in the first lived the Salisburys , the name always amused me when I was small . |
| 12 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 13 | The outcome of the local government election showed little change for the main parties , and SDLP MP Eddie McGrady said the Secretary of State would see the results revealed nothing that he did not already know . |
| 14 | The intervention of the TV programme follows months of investigation by Detective-Sergeant Derek Nickol and a thorough search of the common by 100 police officers and tracker dogs earlier this year — all of which revealed nothing as to Dinah 's disappearance . |
| 15 | He may well have imagined when he met me that he was acquiring the means of escape from the kingdom of the past . |
| 16 | You made it plain from the moment you met me that you were available , but you miscalculated if you imagined I 'd fallen for your little scheme . ’ |
| 17 | I had n't been in the force very long and my sergeant met me and said , ‘ That chimney 's smoking . ’ |
| 18 | I flew out to Chino , California , where the aircraft was based , Merril met me and flew an impressive display in the aircraft . |
| 19 | So anyway , erm they met me and Bert had to go back to his office and Will said he had to go back to his office , but he said , What would you like to do ? |
| 20 | ‘ I never met them but I 'll keep that ring all my life . ’ |
| 21 | Anselm met them as best he could as they arose , and we may trace them step by step , less to recall the stages in an archbishop 's promotion , than to understand the state of mind in which Anselm progressed from one stage to the next . |
| 22 | Manningham , a burly fifty-year-old with an aggressive manner and a paunch , met them as they descended the far side of the bridge . |
| 23 | I met them because I 'm in love with Gillian . |
| 24 | ‘ And if I met them when I was alone ? ’ |
| 25 | For various reasons they were wrong ; but illusion of continuity was easily available because they had at least some of their kinsmen at close quarters , met them and socialized with them each day . |
| 26 | Er until they actually met them and got to know them . |
| 27 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 28 | And they spurred forward to pursue and take him , no doubt believing it a happy chance for them , and the Lord Owen caused his horse to appear to drop lame , and so encouraged and led them until they were spread all along the field in open order , within close range of the bowmen in the woods . |
| 29 | The grim knowledge that she was on the verge of suffocation appalled me and when she stumbled and almost fell the hand in my pocket gripped more tightly on the scalpel which I had taken from my car along with the adrenalin . |
| 30 | Through an emissary , they threatened that if they had to withdraw — which was now inevitable — and the partisans attacked them as they retreated , the cities of Bologna , Reggio Emilia , Parma and Piacenza would be destroyed . |