Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for nothing had she made all those journeys with her employers — she now showed herself to have a familiarity with timetables quite out of the ordinary and was able to spot at once where a connection could be made . |
| 2 | One thing about them surprised him . |
| 3 | Something about them made him feel deeply afraid , but he knew that he could n't just stand there . |
| 4 | Took my letter off me said she 'll come back for it at dinner time because she wanted my bag , I mean like well I , I had n't said that . |
| 5 | The final great act — for everyone thought it was the final act — took place on 16 November . |
| 6 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ Alec Reid firmed down a new pipeful of tobacco , ‘ I might ha ’ made a name for meself had I remained in Edinburgh . |
| 7 | Constance felt a pang of sadness as she walked into the building on Ludovico 's arm , thinking that no one in the world who cared for them knew what was happening . |
| 8 | To assess the damages it is necessary to form a view upon three matters each of which is in greater or lesser degree one of speculation : ( 1 ) the value of the material benefits for his dependants which the deceased would have provided out of his earnings for each year in the future during which he would have provided for them had he not been killed : ( 2 ) the value of any material benefits which the dependants will be able to obtain in each such year from sources ( other than insurance ) which would not have been available to them had the deceased lived but which will become available to them as a result of his death : ( 3 ) the amount of the capital sum which , with prudent management , will produce annual amounts equal to the difference between ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ( that is " the dependency " ) for each of the years during which the deceased would have provided material benefits for the dependants had he not been killed . |
| 9 | Their uniform ‘ acted like a red rag to a bull ’ on the population ; people had lost all respect for them held them to blame for their plight , and vented their anger o At the beginning of September , the SD agency in Kitzingen felt that the loss of confidence in the Party and the regime 's leadership was rapidly moving towards a dangerous level . |
| 10 | a story for them decided I could n't do it . |
| 11 | Well we had no work for them did we ? |
| 12 | As he held her from behind , Tom 's hips and thighs were solid against the thinly covered curves of her lower torso , and as usual the contact between them made her immediately weak and speechless . |
| 13 | No , Kensington and Kennington might be separated only by a letter of the alphabet but the streets that came between them took you out of one world and into another . |
| 14 | The imbalance of feeling between them shocked me . |
| 15 | The physical contact between them did nothing for her at all , but it was nice all the same . |
| 16 | So while his real need for me had something to do with prac-ticalities , he reinforced in me the sense that his need had something to do with his sister 's death . |
| 17 | The kindly old chap who gave up his seat for me brought me my pint saying ‘ Drink this mate , you 'll feel better when tha 's supped that . ’ |
| 18 | Th , oh for me did you ? |
| 19 | Second , Arabic negative particles come in front of the verb , so that an expression such as I had nothing against becomes literally ‘ not was for me any objection ’ , thus pushing the ‘ me ’ further away from thematic position . |
| 20 | Indeed in all the contexts examined to date have suggests that the disposition of the " subordinate " ( denoted by its direct object ) to comply can be assumed or taken for granted : a sentence such as I had him cry , for example , would sound rather strange , unless imagined in a situation where someone is disposed to cry on request ( as in the context of a film director who is referring to an actor working under his orders ) . |
| 21 | This produces the effect of a " coincident actualization " observed in sentences such as I saw him swim across the river , which can be depicted as : With auxiliaries , the connection between the infinitive and the verb with which it is in syntactic relation is much more intimate : the auxiliaries used with the infinitive do not merely evoke some other event whose support coincides in time with that of the infinitive — they qualify the very incidence of the infinitive 's event to its extra-verbal support , as actual ( do auxiliary ) or potential ( the modals ) . |
| 22 | It has never , of course , been my privilege to have seen such things at first hand , but I will nevertheless hazard this with some confidence : the English landscape at its finest — such as I saw it this morning — possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations , however more superficially dramatic , inevitably fail to possess . |
| 23 | mean oh you 're talking about I thought you meant |
| 24 | Oh it 's a thing about I loved him |
| 25 | Well not in the herring fishing but er there was also a a salt fish kind of processing place out in the Hens And me mother work at it and she used to tell us about I supposed they 'll be not rubber boats in that d days . |
| 26 | For someone took it . |
| 27 | As can be observed from the contrast between I saw him swim/swimming across the river , the infinitive refuses a partial view of an action-like event as intercepted midway between the beginning and the end . |
| 28 | For what it was worth I asked her if she knew of a Ewen Mackay who might once have lived at Otters ' Bay , but she shook her head |
| 29 | Most were unhappy — to the outside world they were just thought of as ‘ cabbages ’ , without thoughts or feelings , because that was how the people looking after them thought they were . |
| 30 | After what seemed its thirty-fifth repetition , Rowicki put down his baton , looked up and spoke to the ceiling in a low-pitched , conversational tone : ‘ Everyone can now play this correctly except Mr X ’ ( the fourth inside desk cellist ) . |