Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was strapped so tightly around my ankles I think it stopped the circulation in my feet . |
| 2 | He said cos I used to keep the house tidy he said I 've been the in the army June an he said I can I can run a household he said but we and then working the shifts I do he said and go up the horses and that he said I just do n't get time to do it ! |
| 3 | When we first talked about our star signs I said they made us — ’ |
| 4 | So in , in both projects I think we had to do that first step . |
| 5 | ‘ Once I heard her start singing the songs I knew it had to be her , ’ he says . |
| 6 | As I looked up into his steely blue eyes I admit I did wonder what disparaging thoughts he was thinking about me . |
| 7 | At a meeting of the Cairngorm Club he told a hushed audience ‘ For every few steps I took I heard a crunch as if someone was walking after me but taking steps three or four times the length of my own . |
| 8 | And as far as in the appraisals I mean I found when I did the three s part staff and , and I was , it was that pilot and , and I know |
| 9 | Er I think a court of referees I think they called it . |
| 10 | The grievances which prompted them tended not to be social , but political , fiscal , or even religious . |
| 11 | He was conscious of being watched by unfriendly eyes which show he felt he was a stranger intruding . |
| 12 | Gorbachev 's address received lukewarm applause , and in the speeches which followed he found himself sharply under attack by delegates . |
| 13 | And er he was there er two blokes had to get come get chains and get him out of it and all that and here was n't a scratch on him but erm he was off for about five or six months you know he had ee ee this brain tests and everything , the shock had er he was quite bad for some time . |
| 14 | To Christina 's thinking it was a mess , but seeing the faraway look in Stephen 's eyes she knew he viewed it differently . |
| 15 | She could find nothing to say , and as she sat avoiding his eyes she realised she 'd been a fool . |
| 16 | Though CSE grade 1 had been deemed to be the equivalent of a good O level pass , this had not really brought the two into line : the equivalence was granted as a concession to the increasingly academic ambitions of the secondary modern schools , and , later , as a consolation to those pupils in comprehensive schools who thought they had been wrongly ‘ deselected ’ away from O levels . |
| 17 | Of the town 's three main candidates she said she had ‘ no idea ’ who Liberal Democrat Peter Bergg is while Labour 's Alan Milburn ‘ seems like a decent bloke ’ . |
| 18 | There was a theory of parties she said she wanted to try out . |
| 19 | As she uttered these words she thought they sounded snide and insinuating , sarcastic even , though she had not meant them like that . |
| 20 | That is apart from the colossal cost of fitting cars with the number plates and finding out which cars needed to be fitted , catching drivers who had removed the plates , sending out bills , dealing with drivers who said they had not driven their cars on the date in question , and many another items . |
| 21 | After witnessing their performance I am not sure those supporters who thought they spotted four or five Danish internationals in the side ( probably on a hiking tour of Britain ) , were mistaken . |
| 22 | Even as the words left her lips she knew they sounded ridiculous . |
| 23 | With his arm tightly around her shoulders she found herself steered away from their small , amused , interested audience , away from the music and colourful dancing , out of the floodlit wood and back to the Aston Martin . |
| 24 | Slater said , and Graham felt his eyes widening , that pulling back of the skin towards the ears he thought he had seen frozen on her face , Left ? |
| 25 | The priest , standing in front of them , was relaying Siward 's message , which contained words he thought he had forgotten . |
| 26 | He returned with a symphonic battle piece , and when I asked if he realized the significance of the words he admitted he did not know what they meant ! ) |
| 27 | Some of the words he used I had never heard of — and I am not unfamiliar with words — but he savoured them , rolled them over his tongue and finally ejected them into his speech with a delight at their novelty , their colour and their music . |
| 28 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 29 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 30 | Nuclear weapons were so destructive that those states which possessed them had to be very careful about getting involved in any conflicts , whether with other nuclear states or with their allies . |