Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [conj] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moment I touched the ground I knew why — the excessive ( to me — but normal to Tiree residents ) wind whipped me and my heavily laden briefcase into the lounge where Peter McMillan , Manager of Scarinish Branch offered me the relative calm of his car . |
| 2 | Nevil choked me until I almost passed out , then he lifted me out of the driver 's seat and bundled me into the back of Armstrong , hitting me on the back of the neck with what could have been an anvil but was probably his fist . |
| 3 | But unfortunately we can then easily imagine a context in which that sentence might be appropriately used , in which it is not assumed that John cheated : for example , you thought he had cheated , asked me whether he now repents , but I tell you he never did , and persuade you accordingly , and then I say so John does n't regret cheating ( Gazdar , 1979a : 105 ) . |
| 4 | They said well , they asked me and I just could n't refuse |
| 5 | Her eyes met his and she immediately dropped her gaze , colouring slightly . |
| 6 | My GP visited me and I still have the drawing he did of the cancer they had found in my kidney . |
| 7 | He said of course I scampered through these bull rushes , they never saw me they never caught me and they never ever knew who it was who 'd done it , see . |
| 8 | Jamie caught me as I almost fell over . |
| 9 | Here and there a regular path of some animal helped them but it rarely ran in one direction for long and they were unwilling to lose contact with the water which they would eventually have to cross . |
| 10 | ‘ Why ? ’ she asked , then a jaw-breaking yawn overtook her and she hastily covered her mouth . |
| 11 | He aprroached him and he then produced a handgun . |
| 12 | Sibbes described him as someone well versed in ‘ controverted points of divinity ’ and , with the exception of John Pym , no MP in the late 1620s was more vigorous in his efforts to demonstrate the dangers presented by Arminianism . |
| 13 | They never found him and I often wondered whether he went in with his machine and dead gunner or whether he managed to bale out and was picked up by the flyingboat they had stationed in Sicily for sea rescue work . ’ |
| 14 | Artemis helped her and they both instinctively began to hurry , lest Artemis 's father should return and find them still there , even though he had given his permission . |
| 15 | It appeared to me that the quest for publicity could do nothing but harm , so long as we were certain , as indeed we made sure , that all the disabled knew of the facility and used it if they so desired . |
| 16 | I regarded it as a nuisance , regarded it as something totally unnecessary . |
| 17 | And erm she you know she found it and she really enjoyed it . |
| 18 | so it were n't interacting between the two , everything had changed and it still did it , were a new kit , got a cabinet of setting line , changed it and it still did it . |
| 19 | ‘ Damn you , Irish , ’ he whispered hoarsely , and then his lips found hers and everything else receded . |
| 20 | I had no experience of teaching art to anyone , but the headmaster assured me that it simply involved giving the boys some paints to play with and then telling them to get on with it . |
| 21 | After the first clash , when the crowd was halted in front of the police cordon , some of the women had argued with the police and told them that they too were victims of the ‘ system ’ . |
| 22 | And repeating the well-tried lie he told them that they too could be gods and would never die . |
| 23 | The woman told me that they normally like you to book a few days in advance so that you have some time to think it over in case you wanted to change your mind . |
| 24 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |
| 25 | He also told me that I now had a younger brother , Russell , which made me feel excited and wonder that he could be like . |
| 26 | She said in a small voice , ‘ She told me that you only cared for the vines . |
| 27 | ‘ When I went to old Abuelo Freitas , Maria told me that you sometimes worried too much about him — that you did n't understand that he only wanted to be left alone . |
| 28 | One friend told me that he regularly got 35 m.p.g. from a petrol-engined Land Rover . ) |
| 29 | She told me that he just had time to wrap a small gift of appreciation . |
| 30 | He told me that he too had no particular worries about community care and that the provision of residential care was very good . |