Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The third defendant denies the plaintiffs ' claim against him but if contrary to his contentions he is held liable to the plaintiffs , he claims against you to be indemnified against the plaintiffs ' claims and the costs of this action , alternatively contribution to such extent of the plaintiffs ' claims as the court may think fit , on the grounds that ( 1 ) at all material times , you were the accountants retained by and advising the plaintiffs and each of them in respect of the proposed transaction ( and in particular the financial aspects thereof ) in relation to which the said alleged liability of the plaintiffs and each of them to [ B.M.T. ] was incurred ; ( 2 ) in about the period from January to September 1983 , you acted in breach of contract and negligently towards the plaintiffs and each of them in that you failed to advise them properly or at all with regard to the said proposed transaction and the financial aspects thereof and in particular failed to explain the full nature and extent thereof to the plaintiffs and each of them and/or failed to advise the plaintiffs as to the commercial prudence of the same and/or the risks inherent in proceeding with the same and/or failed to warn them not to enter into the same ; ( 3 ) that in so far as any financial information was or may have been communicated by the third defendant he did so in reliance upon information supplied by you . |
| 2 | She , on her side , had always the sisterly feeling of wanting to ‘ thump ’ anyone who exploited me or tried to do me down . |
| 3 | The detective wondered whether Nicola 's husband was deliberately misleading them or had had a genuine slip of memory . |
| 4 | It was always a mistake to let Mr Evans know you liked someone or had enjoyed anything . |
| 5 | I knew that if I tried to rob someone and got caught , I 'd go to jail . |
| 6 | Once in her life already she had become attached to someone and had allowed herself to be swept down with him in his lonely vortex into the silent depths where nothing moves but drowned sailors coughing seaweed ; only Miriam herself knew how much it had cost her to ascend again from that fascinating , ghostly world towards light and life . |
| 7 | I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were . |
| 8 | Increasingly as I examined the implications of primate studies for ourselves and tried to see some convincing link between baboons and men a voice began muttering in the back of my head ‘ Hey — that 's not it at all . ’ |
| 9 | Franz pulled Therese 's arm through his and began to lead her up the track towards the car park , but she stopped and looked back . |
| 10 | She could only whisper the words , her feelings were too intense , and his lips covered hers as he held her head to his and began to move inside her . |
| 11 | Then he leaned towards her and took both her hands in his and began to study them as if they were entirely new creations , the like of which he had never seen before . |
| 12 | She unlocked her eyes from his and turned to pass through to the apartment . |
| 13 | Nothing that had happened recently had caused her pain , she told herself adamantly — anger certainly , and annoyance in abundance , but not pain . |
| 14 | ‘ You said you had nothing that had belonged to your father ! ’ he accused savagely . |
| 15 | A. T. With the strike having taken place , everyone was jockeying , everyone that had sat for Sergeant and passed their exams , the only way they could see to get promotion was to report another man . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've got eyes and it 's me that had to brush his clothes . |
| 17 | Anyway because I were there with them you see he thought it were me that had got it and I says I have n't got it . |
| 18 | But Francis told me that had happened to them last year . |
| 19 | Perkin would n't have risked any way to kill me that meant creeping up on me , not after what he 'd seen . |
| 20 | For me that meant wrapping it in a blue launderette bag which served as a case . |
| 21 | " My husband just crumbled when I felt it was me that needed to crumble and somebody to help me . |
| 22 | Do you remember any of the teachers particularly well any of them that had had an impact on you ? |
| 23 | He was joking , half flirting , stirring an intimacy between them that had sent a flickering response , like warm fingers , down Ronni 's spine . |
| 24 | Peter says : ‘ I would like them to think if it was their brother , if it was them that had to sit there and watch their brother die in their arms , see how they would feel . |
| 25 | Honestly if it was them that had to stuff those navy blue fitted sheets into the automatic after he 's been home they 'd be Under No Delusions . |
| 26 | Not surprisingly , those of them that tried to reverse this fate have sometimes prospered . |
| 27 | I think everyone 's got their own ways of dealing with them , you know certainly some people ignore them , you know I prefer to ignore them rather than taunt them , er possibly because I was n't really friendly with any of them that did go back , I think people who were close friends have found it very awkward and I know even now they 're probably looking daggers at each other you know , that sort of thing . |
| 28 | But by 1988 Thomson had sold theirs and United had acquired some . |
| 29 | When she had been at college she had socialised in plenty and had had her fair share of boyfriends , Ashley reflected , as they drove along , but since then her energies had been single-mindedly channelled into her career . |
| 30 | He had designed many buildings himself and had employed architects in subordinate capacity , such as Matthew Digby Wyatt at Paddington Station . |