Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This , of course , is the jade you swore you knew nothing about . ’ |
| 32 | As she gathered them together , she noticed a small pamphlet stuffed inside the first carrier bag , and puzzled she pulled it out . |
| 33 | Soon the forest closed around her , so dense and dark in places that even as the new day broke she imagined herself still to be in a midnight realm . |
| 34 | Jezrael called him shook him savagely , but he only flopped , a limp thing . |
| 35 | She knew everyone watched her carefully , not knowing how to interpret her steady dutifulness , not crediting that it would last . |
| 36 | I went I took it out |
| 37 | ‘ I felt I did everything right , like the simple things of making the right contact , but I was striking it into the wind and it seemed to tail off at the last minute . ’ |
| 38 | My father was always very distant with me — so that when he died I felt I hardly knew him . |
| 39 | When her man died I took her in — and gave her a home . |
| 40 | right but then I knew I told you where |
| 41 | Oh , I knew I had something else to tell you , your brother got married . ’ |
| 42 | And you just could n't absolutely see anything serving customer I was going to so , to move or change out my draw shutting it up , turning it off , going away and somebody else had come , he kept , kept , kept doing that and he was stood there all the time and I thought I thought you definitely wo n't get the job ! |
| 43 | We married 18 months later and I thought I knew him fairly well . |
| 44 | ‘ I thought I saw you there … ’ |
| 45 | I thought I had him straight . ’ |
| 46 | I thought I had it again other day , I felt bleeding awful . |
| 47 | Oh right , I thought I told you then . |
| 48 | I thought I shuffled them quite well then , do n't you ? |
| 49 | ‘ I thought I recognised somebody there , ’ Vincent said . |
| 50 | ‘ I thought I warned you not to make a habit of this , ’ a deep voice remarked gruffly , close to her ear , and she realised that the swaying sensation was that of Fen carrying her to her own bunk . |
| 51 | I thought I did it quite well until I heard the khaki overalls rip . |
| 52 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 53 | Course , I was looking out the window and I know he took I picked it out and it I looked again , there 's another one in there , course she 's only getting out the bath put them in a bowl like I was ! |
| 54 | She went she said you fucking you fucking done it . |
| 55 | It came to her that it was wrong to pray for anything simply because you felt you needed it personally . |
| 56 | I could see she was feeling she should n't have told me , but I knew she trusted me better than anyone else . |
| 57 | ‘ I suppose I always knew you did it deliberately to hurt me , and it did ! |
| 58 | I always knew you liked them better . |
| 59 | But I thought you meant something else . ’ |
| 60 | I thought you meant something else then . |