Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , we must recall that the mental conflicts which I am identifying as the origins of human society and civilized behaviour — essentially those portrayed in the story of Oedipus — were as intensely painful and unpleasurable to those who experienced them then as they are to those who experience them in our own times . |
| 2 | Now you d you went and interrupted me there and , and I 've forgotten what I was saying which was right . |
| 3 | What made them less than first-rate , yet also made them popular locally , was the touch of theatricality and exaggeration , the desire to impose , which was very foreign indeed to the character of Oswaldston as a town . |
| 4 | Now I got one lot of fruit juices and I said to go and get some more and there were six empty on the thing then I chucked them in and then there were another six empty like . |
| 5 | He laid them out like they were a pack of cards spread out around him for a game of patience . |
| 6 | On another occasion , a woman cousin met me there and we stood talking , ‘ Who was that woman you were talking to ? ’ |
| 7 | Er I met them in when they were on holiday and that 's how I got in . |
| 8 | Automatically , she led them in and gave them their feed . |
| 9 | You took my youth , my innocence — everything I had ! — and then you flung me aside when you knew I could give you nothing … and you left me nothing ! ’ |
| 10 | It concerned me deeply that the men going back to Burma should have a smattering of the language , especially those who would go in with the Wingate levies into occupied Burma . |
| 11 | Painfully she straightened them out and healed the hand again . |
| 12 | He asked me why and I said I was reading a book called My Early Life by Winston Churchill and that I would want any son of mine to live that life . |
| 13 | The soldier , seeing my uninteresting-looking machine , asked me again if I would not prefer to choose a new one , but I refused . |
| 14 | At first they asked me if I wanted my mum to go out but I said No , but when they started asking me all those sorts of questions they asked me again and I said Yes . |
| 15 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 16 | and then he asked me then and erm , he did n't know whether to ask me or not , well he knew , he knew more or less I 'd say yes anyway , cos I more , I 'd already said yes , but not to his face , so but he did n't know whether to because Henry fancied me |
| 17 | Bullinger stayed with me , and asked me quietly whether I thought that there was any hope for her … |
| 18 | Although the outskirts of the forest were carpeted with pine-needles , Kāli led me higher and deeper into the trees . |
| 19 | It was a moody holiday and I followed the roads ; some of them led me aright and some astray . |
| 20 | Lyle , who scored a 73 against his rival 's 69 , gasped : ‘ Guts got me through and I 'm delighted . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , well , be fair — my mother got me up and gave me breakfast , ’ Mitch said bravely . |
| 22 | Right , only got me down cos I was tired , I told you . |
| 23 | ‘ You got me fair and square , ’ I told him . |
| 24 | The Karens in the army fought them stoutly and the civil population passively resisted . |
| 25 | He successfully fought them off and they fled empty-handed . |
| 26 | I think we had twelve or thirteen cars , so that was twelve shifts we could cover , we had three gates to cover cover , so and forty men , and just shared them out and that was all computerized , printed out , everyone had a copy , and on the whole it worked very very well . |
| 27 | Another thing is , in prison you mix with everyone , and I think that made me worse as well . |
| 28 | Nobody read them but Clara , and she read them only because she read everything . |
| 29 | By mid-morning she had done what housework she was prepared to do , and although she had used the vacuum cleaner , her nose felt full of dust , her heart heavy : she had picked up all manner of objects — scent bottles , jugs , a Staffordshire dog — wiped them desultorily and put them back . |
| 30 | She wiped them surreptitiously and repeated her question : ‘ Surely a woman is better off without a man ? ’ |