Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] in the " in BNC.

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1 Yeah well as I say I I lived in the east end of London and that that 's how it was done there but I dare say that other places organized it
2 This term was introduced to describe someone who indulged in the science of ‘ aerostation ’ ( lighter-than-air flight ) using an ‘ aerostatic ’ machine ( balloon ) .
3 Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two .
4 Erm a few months back I was interviewing someone who lived in the area all their life and she said that the Sikh temple had distributed some E E C erm butter I think it was .
5 I think maybe there was someone who died in the war or something .
6 Business Traveller recently published a letter from someone who stayed in the Inter-Continental hotel in Kinshasa .
7 As someone who worked in the BMC when it was at its height , and who has very long acquaintance with both protagonists , I can vouch for the veracity of Dennis 's story as told here , and can only lament the nit-picking which has continued even after its publication in this book .
8 reminded of mistakes you made in the past — the sight/presence of someone you wronged in the past .
9 Nobody I saw in the streets ever looked up .
10 My honourable friend from the front benches made the point about the gaps in er these regulations , they do n't cover Lloyds , they do n't cover pension schemes , pension funds they do n't cover banks which are domiciled er in the er in in the United States but er we also have the point which I made in the interjection to the minister that unless there 's a duty to detect fraud er er as well as report it , it 's really doubtful if the auditors can perform er the function .
11 Perhaps these contradictory interpretations illustrate the dangers , to which I alluded in the earlier discussion , of assuming an automatic association between classicism and positivism and specific political ideologies .
12 This created two new corners , which I treated in the same way , and so on till I achieved the shape marked out .
13 I was crying outright now , and he made a move towards me which I sensed in the darkness , but I lashed out with my hand and knocked his arm down , and cried , " Leave me alone , that 's what you want to do ! "
14 They swarmed round the town at night and came close to the tent in which I slept in the consulate compound .
15 Last year I was given a beautiful blue pot hydrangea which I planted in the garden when it finished flowering .
16 In response to the article on Zahira 's experiences which I wrote in the Guardian I got , in addition to the usual sick and abusive letters from racists , a number of letters from English women who sympathised with Zahira .
17 A coherent school policy on Standard English can be based on the different views of the main aims of English teaching which I listed in the previous chapter. :
18 Political sociologists , in so far as they are not engaged in mainly descriptive and historical studies , now devote much of their effort either to analysing methodological problems of the kind which I outlined in the Introduction , or to reappraising and reinterpreting those nineteenth-century theories in which the ideas with which I have been concerned throughout this book — democracy , class , capitalism , socialism , the nation — were originally formulated and diffused .
19 All back together again yes , I 've got to go into hospital on erm well , tomorrow actually for erm another operation erm that 's to have a plate taken out of erm the collar bone which I broke in the middle of last season .
20 In terms of Julia Kristeva 's model , which I introduced in the last chapter , this would be a first stage , liberal equal-rights-and-opportunities response .
21 Yes I recall on Friday morning we had this discussion about the wording which you had in the er
22 It 's been known for a very long time that from these cases you can isolate this organism C diphtheria bacterium which you saw in the practical classes and has this distinctive stayed property where er certain granules can be stayed up and also the arrangement of the cells is rather reminiscent of what called Chinese lettering .
23 Indeed , it was Beveridge himself who claimed in the midst of the war that ‘ the most general effect of war is to make he common people more important ’ .
24 Mrs Knight said Bruce 's daughter joined him in the house and cleared out a bureau which she had in the bedroom .
25 Since 1945 , Britain 's record has been consistently better than that which she achieved in the interwar years — an average of 20 per cent of GDP as compared with 11 per cent [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] .
26 The queer feeling came over her , that choking feeling in her throat which she experienced in the night , when she was lying awake trying to recall and piece together dim , fleeting memories of another time in which she had lived , when things had been both happy and sad , when angry broken sentences would not meet and so explain the odd pictures that formed in her mind .
27 She had found a large blanket , which she placed in the back of her car , in the garage .
28 In the kitchen , she opened the freezer and found a Chicken Kiev for two , which she put in the microwave to defrost .
29 Those lucky teachers who came under Basil 's guidance were helped to be more creative themselves and to bring out creativity in their children with the amazing results which we saw in the West Riding schools .
30 But there is the same substantial caveat which we registered in the case of the Nuer : the particular kind of mystical powers which sustain the social order can not be predicted from the social order .
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