Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd talked to him a year ago — and we just kept in touch . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd spoken to him a few times , ’ Avril recalls . |
| 4 | Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night |
| 5 | " No , I suppose not , but I had hoped for something a little more exotic . |
| 6 | I had hoped for someone a little more well never mind . |
| 7 | In Freudian terms , I had taken upon myself the typically female neurosis of hysteria along with the typically male one of obsessiveness . |
| 8 | One wonders whether this can be the same nation which had gained for itself the reputation of being a stolid , pipe-sucking manhood , unmoved by panic or excitement , and reliable in the tightest of places . |
| 9 | The chief executive of Newcrest Mining , the joint-venture partner which had planned to mine the site , denounced Hawke 's decision as a dangerous precedent . |
| 10 | On Aug. 21 a meeting between Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi and US officials resolved tensions which had arisen over what the Kenyan authorities had perceived as the lack of proper consultation about the US operation , involving as it did US military aircraft overflying Kenyan airspace and the arrival of up to 300 US military personnel . |
| 11 | When he exiled himself to Jersey , it was to surround himself with ‘ the sinister sheep of the sea ’ , ‘ the hydra-headed dragon ’ , which had become for him an image of the abyss , of fate , and of God . |
| 12 | In reply to a letter from Sheldon Vanauken , who , after his wife 's death , wrote to Lewis about their love which had remained for him an end in itself , Lewis replied : |
| 13 | In the editorial which he wrote for the last issue , he discussed the general political situation which had provoked in him a depression of spirit so different from anything he had experienced in the last fifty years as " to be a new emotion " ; but he also confessed to a feeling of staleness as editor . |
| 14 | Essentially , all the invention consisted of was an overhead vacuum cleaner which moved back and forth between the textile machines and which had attached to it a long vertical tube , reaching almost to the floor . |
| 15 | This was her first big opportunity to reply to the barrage of criticism and , as she saw it , ingratitude which had marred for her the celebration last May of her 10 years in office . |
| 16 | She read with avidity the endlessly cosy adventures of wealthy children on farms and in smugglers ' caves and country houses , but she found built into them a warning against too much belief . |
| 17 | He 'd deceived and manipulated her again and again , and she 'd fallen for it every time . |
| 18 | She 'd explained to me the origin of the Paisley pattern ; I had the history of Notting Hill Gate , the use of a camera obscura by Vermeer , why Charles Lamb 's sister murdered their mother , and a history of Tamla Motown . |
| 19 | She 'd looked at me a bit strange , the woman in charge of the Bed-and-Breakfast , but I 'd paid on the nail and ordered in my refined accent , ‘ And a cooked breakfast , please ’ — so no hassle . |
| 20 | Discarding pretence still further , she opened one of the drawers in the white chest of drawers , slamming it shut at once on the unfashionable baby clothes that Nannie had left in tidy small piles , washed and mended as though she had planned for them an after-life in which Nannie 's memory should have a lasting importance . |
| 21 | As he approached tentatively , wanting to seem friendly but not to alarm her , she had turned on him a long and curious glance from remarkable , slanted , violet-blue eyes . |
| 22 | She had seen for herself the effect he had on many of his clients ; had herself been impressed by his ability to amuse them with his quick wit and entertaining anecdotes . |
| 23 | She said she had spoken to her the previous day and she had seemed normal . |
| 24 | She had chosen for herself the human equivalent of sackcloth and ashes , and she denounced herself for a masochist . |
| 25 | It seemed to him now , that she had planted inside him the dark seed of failure : that from it , everything else had flowered , his inability to keep a job , his uselessness , his drinking , his failed marriage . |
| 26 | In fact , the more she had thought about it the more convinced she had become . |
| 27 | However Sharda had a close friend who was West Indian and she had discussed with her the reasons why Asian girls were so frequently attacked and bullied : |
| 28 | E. C. Llewellyn , the Professor , was a rich , pleasant man , interested in linguistics , who had assembled around him an excellent team . |
| 29 | I 'm not saying we all had it together but you say you can er say that about four of 'em would then as that as that they got rid of it the other the others 'd get it you know eventually and th we 'd all have it in the end . |
| 30 | They had slept beside it the previous night , and rose at five to make sure of reaching the top by sunrise . |