Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [noun] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nurses who have married or had children since they last nursed may be intellectually aware of what unsocial hours can mean , but if they have not actually experienced them recently they can be caught unprepared . |
| 2 | When we , we using B H C vaccine in eigh er , late seventies , early eighties , erm , that caused problems because we had residues left in the meat , and the French amongst others found it as well , so there were , there were problems there , and the Ministry went over to organo-phos or to organo-phosphorus dips , they were the only alternative that they 'd got at that er , time . |
| 3 | He does not greatly care for the dark purplish bathroom suite ( ‘ Damson ’ , the estate agent 's brochure had called the shade ) but it had been one of the things that attracted Marjorie when they bought the house two years ago — the bathroom , with its kidney-shaped handbasin and goldplated taps and sunken bath and streamlined loo and bidet . |
| 4 | But it did sell ‘ prime promotion space ’ — the shelves at the end of each island unit that faced customers as they entered the door , and allowed four or five copies to face outwards . |
| 5 | In other words , I wanted to study the members ( and their parents and other persons ) as individuals ; I wanted to study the kinds of interactions that took place when they took account of each other ( Weber , 1947 , p. 88 ) ; and , at a more abstract level than most of the participants would be aware of , I wanted to note sociological phenomena such as power structures , communication networks and the unintended consequences of the beliefs and practices of the movement . |
| 6 | It is said the Sun planet SunSelect , the unit that bought WABI when it acquired Norwood , Massachusetts-based Praxsys Technologies Inc , has already received a letter from Microsoft complaining that WABI violates its intellectual property rights . |
| 7 | Terry admired it and asked Sarah if she had another copy , and she said casually , ‘ Yes . |
| 8 | He hacked the pizza into pieces and asked Wickham whether he would like some . |
| 9 | And he went to Plessey and asked Plessey if he could implement these little functions on micro circuits . |
| 10 | And , so I popped in and asked Douglas if he 'd got any going for next to nothing but he does n't have anything down his size . |
| 11 | She carried their drinks into the living room and asked Ralph if he had managed to see his solicitor ; the appointment had been at 2 p.m . |
| 12 | I mixed a massage oil containing lavender and clary-sage , and asked Owen if he liked the aroma . |
| 13 | I had decided not to stay in the same hotel as any of the groups of owners , actors , racegoers or crew , and asked Nell if she knew of anywhere else . |
| 14 | Guillaume had already bought some drawings of Modigliani 's , but one afternoon at the Rotonde Max Jacob and Modi were sitting together on the terrace with Modi sketching as usual on the Rotonde 's thin paper napkins when Paul Guillaume sat down at their table and asked Modigliani whether he ever painted . |
| 15 | Magistrates said they could disqualify him from driving and asked Elsworth if he needed his licence for his job . |
| 16 | I spotted a pub called the Hop Pole and asked Werewolf if he fancied a drink . |
| 17 | He put the back of his hand on each forehead and asked Nellie if they 'd complained about pains in the ear . |
| 18 | I quickly said no and asked Jammie if I could tell Helen what was happening . |
| 19 | Indenbaum did not take the proposition seriously , as he felt sure that Modi would have forgotten all about it in the morning , but Modigliani was insistent and asked Indenbaum if he had canvas and paint at home . |
| 20 | Bob , normally a level-headed signalman , looked ill at ease and asked Ted if he had heard any strange noises in the box . |
| 21 | He wrote and asked father if I might go out with him on one of his long walks . |
| 22 | By noon all the squadron 's reserve aircraft were in use , and the mechanics were sucking blood from cut fingers and grazed knuckles as they worked too fast on battered planes which had just creaked home with streaming canvas and smashed spars , or labouring engines , or cracked fuel lines , or crippled controls , or lopsided under-carriage . |
| 23 | He chose the time carefully , lurked and caught Dersingham as he was coming from the stable yard after having driven himself out . |
| 24 | She packed a selection of outfits and drove south because it was the quickest way out . |
| 25 | ‘ The Force has got enough obstinate and bloodyminded men as it is , without adding any females . ’ |
| 26 | Hubert bent nails , made patterns with metal bars and suffered agonies as he struggled to lift massive weights . |
| 27 | But a historian of modern transport can go to an enormous mass of recorded and photographed information when he can not find a surviving model of an early bombing aeroplane ; the historian of , say , medieval navies has infinitely smaller resources . |
| 28 | Sabrina leaped from her chair and shoulder-charged Al-Makesh before he could fire again . |
| 29 | I want as many concise and informed references as you can find , but nothing so technical that I ca n't understand it . ’ |
| 30 | Later her brother unwittingly reinforced the impression that she hired and fired staff when he said : ‘ In a quiet way she has weeded out a lot of the hangers-on who surrounded Charles . ’ |