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Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	But Bob said to me where I bought it from , he said I do n't think it would survive the winter because it comes from the Scilly Isles which is warmer .
2	Her eyes darted back to his and she studied him before parting her lips to give him his answer .
3	And it surprises me that they took him into the Force , 'cos he 's made no secret of it an' you know yourself how they 're thought about . ’
4	Whenever I have met him since , he has invariably reminded me that I taught him about the business !
5	( One of the teachers whom I interviewed , and who did not comment on this question , has since told me that she used it with a class .
6	‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan .
7	As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman .
8	Acknowledge that today is Wednesday , but tell them that you bought it on Tuesday and it is bad and you want a replacement .
9	He would not be true to himself if he showered us with blessings while we 're outside of his will .
10	He was pleased with the result and wanted to use it for something for himself and he adapted it for designing colour patterns for Sandra to knit on her machine .
11	One of his more lasting memorials is the Hattersley domestic loom , which since he introduced it into the islands in 1920 has produced almost the entire output of Harris tweed .
12	We owe it to the people of my own borough of Hillingdon , where only a week or so ago a teenager who had just stolen a car killed himself when he drove it into a tree at nearly 100 mph .
13	But he says he was defending himself when she threatened him with a knife .
14	‘ Remember one thing ! ’ he said angrily , only just controlling himself as he held her by the shoulders .
15	Then washed I thee with water ; yea , I cleansed away thy blood from thee and I anointed thee with oil .
16	He said , yeah , there has , which came as a great relief to me and we left it at that .
17	Luckily the main guy was able to call me and we discussed it for quite some time . ’
18	They were glad to see me and they shook me by the hand and one of them said :
19	I had brought my bag with me and I left it in Armstrong along with my wallet , spare cash and watch , just taking enough to pay for a ticket and a towel .
20	Cos Michael started it , he said we 're never said anything when we set off in the car , and then he said that he 'd had this fax from me and er Andrew said , well it was n't actually from , er , from me to the , it was fetched up to me and I sent it in the office .
21	I washed them trainers our Johnny given me and I cleaned them for him to try and save and then them black shoes for school to save his boots for the
22	She nuzzled me and I cuddled her with tears streaming down my face . ’
23	Finally , one day a boy called Charlie bawled out , ‘ Nigger ! ’ at me and I chased him in a fury .
24	And she took to me and she took me to Liverpool and they were very good to me .
25	and I was upset so I went to my doctor who 's a lady doctor and she 's young , she explained things to me and she put me on H R T and it changed my life completely !
26	‘ It would matter to me if anyone suspected me of taking drugs — not just you . ’
27	You would n't recognise me if you met me in the bath . ’
28	To blind a lamb or blind an eagle ; all the same to them if it left them with defenceless prey to kill .
29	You would recognise them if you saw them in the street , there 's no doubt about that , but they 're not academic studies , they 're caricatured to a point .
30	You would recognise them if you saw them in the street , there 's no doubt about that , but they 're not academic studies , they 're caricatured to a point .