Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Include also those items which you wanted to have in the past but dismissed because you thought you could not have them or simply forgot about them . |
| 2 | Both men were lifelong friends of his and also had influential careers in Rome . |
| 3 | So Johnny took her hand in his and lightly began to kiss her fingertips . |
| 4 | Bending , he took it in his and then raised it to his lips . |
| 5 | Consequently , she admits , ‘ There was a part of me that secretly felt evangelism was something you should n't do to your dog , let alone a friend ’ ( Pippert 1980:16 ) . |
| 6 | They were suspicious about my past , my age and a picture of me that simply did not add up . |
| 7 | This sound , tautening to the pitch of a screech , interrupted Davide 's growing up ; it had frightened children like him as they played in the streets , but sent a shiver through them that also excited them . |
| 8 | There was something about the way she was treating them that still seemed odd to Masklin . |
| 9 | I had a fishing net with me and carefully fished it out . |
| 10 | ‘ Raja had it in for me and just waited its time . |
| 11 | and I was gon na go and apply for but then Neil he sent for me and just asked me , just told me there was a job come up in the office and if I wanted it |
| 12 | We 'd never talked about that day , and we never again came near this old air shaft ; I do n't know what he might have done since but I 'd always assumed he was like me and just tried to forget about it , pretend it never happened . |
| 13 | I was there on my own , because the Yorkshire Television film crew had been positioned on the roof of the Palace , and would have been quite at a loss but a lady from the Yorkshire Post spotted me and kindly accompanied me for a little while . |
| 14 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 15 | She 'd been within a yard of me and not recognized me . |
| 16 | ‘ I was on the ground and Robert came running over me and accidentally gashed my head with his boot , ’ said Barnes . |
| 17 | They had stopped coming to see me and never telephoned any more . |
| 18 | When Gibson and I left the office , Guy turned on me and bluntly told me the fate that would overtake me were I to steal one of his crews . |
| 19 | ‘ I took a lot of stick from the press , ’ said the England Under-21 player , ‘ but the lads backed me and so did the manager . |
| 20 | Anyway , when I started my work on thresholds it came back to me and so did she . |
| 21 | She kissed me and then glared into my face . |
| 22 | Came out without anything inside me and then had this ghastly experience of not , I was , I was banking on being able to get a hot cup of coffee on the train . |
| 23 | ‘ It took a look at me and then melted away into the shadows . |
| 24 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 25 | He glared at me and then walked past and had a sharp look around the office . |
| 26 | So , so , he looked , he looked round at me , he looked at the the other group waiting in front and he was , he flashed his lights at them so that , they realised what was going on by then , they moved forward a bit , I moved back a bit and he just had enough room he reversed right up close to me and then got out but he just had enough room to get out , and since then I wo n't park over the driveway up there , cos you can bet your life the one driveway along that road and you parked in front is the one that somebody wants to get into . |
| 27 | He flashed signals back to me and then ran downstairs to check by telephone to see if the message had been sent and received correctly . |
| 28 | He just looked at me and then punched me straight in the face . |
| 29 | He winked at me and then scowled as though he had thought better of it . |
| 30 | He examined me and then straightened up , shaking his head . |