Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said , ‘ In case nothing came of it , I could cut him off . ’ |
| 2 | Tricia sat between Melanie and me , which made me change gear ever so carefully in case I brushed against her ample thigh , and Melanie shouted instructions around her . |
| 3 | Going back to the railway station was for the moment out of the question , just in case I bumped into someone who recognized me . |
| 4 | My mum and dad had been through a very bad divorce , so I suppose she was frightened of being too strict and pushing me away , in case I turned against her . |
| 5 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 6 | It is midnight and after great difficulty I managed with my little bit of French to convey to my dancing partner of the evening that I would like to see her home . |
| 7 | ‘ If you will only accept the offer of payment I made to you earlier , then the rest of the debt will be paid very shortly . ’ |
| 8 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 9 | No , the next bit I looked over me bit and you were parked up alongside me , why ? |
| 10 | But although I relaxed a little in the hours I spent with them , I never really felt comfortable — and at all times I felt compelled to keep eye contact … and a small notebook strategically placed . |
| 11 | I realized , thinking about it afterwards , that they were the numbers of the various different bus-routes I used on my way to school , together with the relevant extracts from their timetables . |
| 12 | As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself . |
| 13 | ‘ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears ; not that ye should be grieved , but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you ’ ( 2 Corinthians , 2:4 ) . |
| 14 | In some ways it is an improvement over yet older versions , sions , but I hope you realise that the information it encapsulates is much vaguer and less certain than the description I gave of what single cells can do . |
| 15 | After the winner I rode for him at York . ’ |
| 16 | Some nerve , and of course I went for it . |
| 17 | Well that course I went on you know , there was er , there were , there were , there 'd be about twelve in the class and there were two young women in the class |
| 18 | He examined me , and was not surprised to find I had only two legs , though of course I squealed about it . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course I talked to him , ’ said Andrus . |
| 20 | and it was exact amount of coins I had in my pocket ! |
| 21 | Now yesterday afternoon I said to our Joe I fancies a bit of chocolate . |
| 22 | That afternoon I sat in my room and unpacked my things . |
| 23 | Earlier this afternoon I spoke to him about his party 's ailing fortunes in the year since the General Election . |
| 24 | I began to see my environment in a new light as I connected the shapes and patterns I found in it with mathematics . |
| 25 | When they were lowering my father 's coffin into his grave I thought to myself ‘ It 's all over ! ’ |
| 26 | The corrugations of the track were half-filled with grit so that the wheel lost momentum in each hollow and at times I thought of myself as an engine-driver , pushing my train back to the station , always careful not to trip over the sleepers . |
| 27 | mimics them and that , oh I hate that , I hate that as I say a few times I thought to myself I do not like |
| 28 | We held hands going to school every morning , Jimmy and I , and three times I stood on my head for him at Miss Annie 's to prove my love . |
| 29 | The actual DNA molecules I received from my parents are not passed to my children : replicas of them are passed on . |
| 30 | Half a dozen wild rabbits were all the stock I observed upon them with scarcely a blade or leaf of herbage to keep even these alive ; doubtless through the folly or madness of the first occupiers ( after appropriation ) in converting them to arable farms instead of sheep walks and rabbit warrens ’ . |