Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or him that thought more than a handful |
| 2 | I decided that Pam was frailer than me and carried the bags myself . |
| 3 | Summer ‘ 91 , I had just retired and I was so looking forward to it when , one week ‘ into it ’ , told us that she & had parted company . |
| 4 | When my Noble Friend was kind enough to say that he looked to me for help as being I think he said an ornament on the front bench , was n't quite certain whether that was supposed to be a compliment or not , but I thought an ornament or something that you that sat upon a er er er er er upon a shelf and looked pretty , but did n't actually do anything . |
| 5 | ‘ Because the foreigner was stronger than you and conquered you . |
| 6 | Typical of immigrants , her parents were anxious that she should do better than they and persuaded her to take up teaching as a profession . |
| 7 | A US Senate subcommittee survey of 1975 reports the case of a seventeen-year-old Detroit schoolgirl who was awarded massive damages after being beaten up and stabbed with pencils by thirty girl classmates who apparently resented that she was more attractive than they and received better grades . |
| 8 | And while Leith was thinking , heavens , Rosemary was a year older than her and had been married , and was starting to feel grateful that she had the parents she had , Rosemary was going on , ‘ They 're both out at the moment . ’ |
| 9 | But two lorry drivers passing the scene described Mrs Chandler 's attacker as slightly smaller than her and estimated his height at five feet eight or nine inches . |
| 10 | The girl has told officers her attacker was taller than her and wore a ski mask . |
| 11 | Certainly his successors were lesser men than he and wielded less authority ; after 1540 , until at any rate the reign of Elizabeth , the office was to some extent what its holder made of it . |
| 12 | Well er just wire and they just laid evergreens you know and one and just them and them and made a circle and a |
| 13 | Finally , the matter lay solely between God and me and had nothing in time or eternity to do with anyone else . |
| 14 | No it was offered , it was offered around and me and said yeah we 'd do it . |
| 15 | Many years ago — back in the early '70s , I think — Burt Reynolds called up Warren Beatty and me and formed Marriage Anonymous on the theory that if any of the three of us got tempted to get married we 'd ring up the others and we 'd go round and make them drunk . |
| 16 | She shared her home with Irina and me and watched over us as fiercely as if we were her own children . |
| 17 | No , it 's Greg and you that got me on to saying that . |
| 18 | I doubt if we shall ever know enough to do it , but these dear dead creatures are lurking there forever in their private corners of that huge genetic hypervolume , waiting to be found if we but had the knowledge to navigate the right course through the maze . |
| 19 | ‘ The letters say ‘ you should have sold him , him and him and bought him , him and him ’ . |
| 20 | Women have power , you know , Aggie , if they but knew how to use it . |
| 21 | And they were not mistaken , for He did provide , and provide abundantly : quails and bread , ‘ and he that gathered much had nothing over , and he that gathered little had no lack ; they gathered every man according to his eating . ’ |
| 22 | And they were not mistaken , for He did provide , and provide abundantly : quails and bread , ‘ and he that gathered much had nothing over , and he that gathered little had no lack ; they gathered every man according to his eating . ’ |
| 23 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 24 | That thorny subject , if he but knew it , was as painful to her as it was to him . |
| 25 | On the second night at the caravan she had slid back the partition between his bed and hers and had walked quietly up to his bed and had stood gravely looking down at him . |
| 26 | You could have respect for a man who lusted after you and fought for you and took you . |
| 27 | Yeah Rob yeah Rob you know you should have done taken like a hair out of your head , placed it in there before you and pulled it out . |
| 28 | Poachers could have been there before you and creamed off some of the rabbits , or there may have been a more innocent intrusion by a courting couple on the site . |
| 29 | If the sergeant got there before you and did n't find you , he would tap with his signalling stick and it goes for miles in the middle of the night — give him a little tinkle , and you walk towards one another . |
| 30 | He tossed the tripod in after it and banged the doors shut . |