Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done . |
| 2 | He must have had something on his mind and he did something he does not normally do . ’ |
| 3 | I asked her her name just in case it was the Devil in disguise and she told me who she was . |
| 4 | So , for example , if I rented a tape and I saw someone I liked , I could call the central distributor for that person 's number and then we could get together . ’ |
| 5 | But he would n't , and redoubled his efforts with her hand , using it as his instrument until she hated what he was doing so much that she shook her head on the pillow and whispered , " No — please — no ! " |
| 6 | It is the regulations imposed on the Asia Minor city of Erythrai in c.450 BC ( ML 40 = Fornara 71 ) which included a Council appointed by lot ; Athens would hardly have exported such an institution before she had one herself . |
| 7 | Mig Romerez did not even recognise a football when I showed him one but his exotic appearance should be enough to impress those bumpkins in ‘ The Tip ’ crowd . |
| 8 | But dozens of representatives shouted ‘ Yes ’ when he recalled the European election campaign and asked them : ‘ Can any of us say in all honesty that we did everything we could ? ’ |
| 9 | But at the time I was so excited by my good luck that I forgot what I owed to Joe . |
| 10 | It was not Diana 's day to lunch so they gave me her secluded table from which to view the proceedings . |
| 11 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 12 | He was a Syrian and there is no question that he knew what he was about . |
| 13 | Through Special Branch it arranged for Inspector Lamport , of the Portsmouth CID , to visit the Sallyport Hotel two days later , on 21 April , where , in front of the astonished manager , Edward Richman , Lamport tore out from the hotel register the pages bearing the signatures of Crabb and ‘ Smith ’ , and threatened Richman with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act if he told anybody anything about the affair . |
| 14 | Matt said afterwards he 'd half expected the whole thing would turn out to be a wild goose chase and I told him I thought the same . |
| 15 | The company plans have been put on ice until it decided what its next move might be . |
| 16 | It can hardly have been on account of the unanimous beliefs of the many Home Secretaries who passed through the department during the period — though it has to be said that only one , Roy Jenkins , showed any real interest in the issue and he did what he could to achieve action . |
| 17 | She went on a school trip to a museum and we gave her our little camera which I could never use . |
| 18 | We spoke a week ago on the telephone and he told me he was desperate . |
| 19 | In fact as soon as I walked in I was n't allowed to go to my desk until I promised her I would get the computer out |
| 20 | Ian was very upset by his father 's intransigent attitude but he knew what he wanted to do and that was to pursue his studies by every means possible , although by now doubts were beginning to cloud his mind . |
| 21 | A slight exaggeration but I knew what he meant . |
| 22 | In Primary Three I fell in love with another boy because he lent me his ‘ Lo-lo Ball ’ and I thought this meant love ! |
| 23 | Halfway through lunch , this blonde , baby-faced girl started to kill herself with anxiety because she saw someone she knew but could not remember their name . |
| 24 | I 'm calling his home because he told me he was rarely in his office . ’ |
| 25 | Turner used to change his work when he saw who he was hanging next to . |
| 26 | Then she gave a quick , soft laugh as she realized what he was doing . |
| 27 | ‘ D ’ , my husband , did n't accept me loving another girl when I told him I was a lesbian , but after a while he accepted me as Carla — 100 per cent . |
| 28 | He asked the question as she handed him his drink . |
| 29 | I saw her with black hair and I told her it was great , but she prefers to be blonde . |
| 30 | He gave us his story and we gave him ours . |