Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | The passport office in Liverpool issued me with a new passport , and , though I had made dozens of requests to the army for a vehicle , BBC Radio Manchester succeeded where I had failed . |
2 | Where she met where she met him then ? |
3 | a similar point arose where it proposed to serve the writ and an Anton Piller order out of the jurisdiction on a Belgian company . |
4 | A chilly breeze was moving and several of them trembled where they sat . |
5 | I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall . |
6 | He never found where she hid her food . |
7 | Puzzled , I finally twigged where they had come from : the synthetic rock — supposedly safe — that I had decorated the tank with . |
8 | That occurred although it took up a large slice of their already-depleted income , and they also ran the risk of getting lung cancer and other smoking related diseases , and placed the health of their children in jeopardy . |
9 | I managed four , but they tasted like they 'd been pickled in piss . ’ |
10 | Then they moved to Chelmsford by foot , where they stopped until they embarked for France on 30 March 1915 , part of the 145th Infantry Brigade of the 48th Division . |
11 | Heating the water , well it heated if you 'd the fire on it heated the water and then you 'd take a couple of buckets out into the bath , plug a couple of buckets in . |
12 | The island was spread in front of me , outrigger canoes paddling towards us from the silver beaches lined with tall , bending palm trees and feathery casuarinas , while , behind , the green volcanic mountains rose until they seemed to meet the sky . |
13 | They all laughed and joked until they got to Holborn . |
14 | To qualify as a model foster parent you had to be at the wealthier level of the middle class , with an already established family ; it helped if you lived in the country ( away from urban enticements ) , spoke a little German , and could tolerate moody children who suffered bouts of depression and were inclined to long silences . |
15 | It helped if you got caught to know as little as possible . |
16 | You do seem to enjoy watching nude bathers , so do n't you think it would be much better for everyone involved if you went somewhere where they did n't mind being watched ? ’ |
17 | On reflection , though , she doubted if she 'd got enough crocks or cutlery and ‘ what was they going ter sit on ? ’ |
18 | I doubted if he 'd heard . |
19 | No-one moved until she had quite satisfied herself . |
20 | this is what we found cos I said , oh |
21 | The driver gunned the motor but that only threw off sprays of fine snow , and the motor howled until I thought it would burst . |
22 | But it 's not as hard as one that we tried cos we wanted a firm one , she wanted something firm but nice and high . |
23 | They did not , of course , mention that they fled because they knew the alternative would have been even less attractive , since at that time Philby was still in the West , having been publicly exonerated by Harold Macmillan . |
24 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
25 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | So I stood by the door and I never moved till he went in oh he said But with a caravan I do n't know . |
28 | The Netherlands disagreed because it thought harmonised taxes would be too weak . |
29 | Guns sank till they became useless ; rifles caked and would not fire ; even food was tainted with the inevitable mud . ’ |
30 | He began it , but then he stopped because he decided that it was n't an interesting enough story . |