Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , since I am going to kill you anyway — an intruder in my house , I met you , drew my gun ; you attacked me and in the ensuing fight the gun went off , unfortunately killing you — I — ’ |
| 2 | At around the same time , Michael Blumenthal , the Us treasury secretary , visited him while on a swing through the middle East in search of petrodollars for investment in the states . |
| 3 | It was shortly after this that her mother approached her and in a voice that she rarely used to her , she said , ‘ Agnes , I … |
| 4 | Ptolemy ranked it as of the first magnitude , and seems to have referred to it as ‘ the Last of the River ’ ; from Alexandria he could not see Achernar , though Acamar was visible low over the horizon . |
| 5 | For example , in English Hop Growers Ltd v Derring [ 1928 ] 2 KB 174 Scrutton LJ said " I have always for myself regarded it as in the public interest that parties who , being in an equal position of bargaining , make contracts , should be compelled to perform them , and not to escape from their liabilities by saying that they had agreed to something which was unreasonable " . |
| 6 | Er well in the book it does n't say it and I tried it and under the give that a little bit more room , can get back under by just moving |
| 7 | The elements it contained ‘ helped us but in the end our approach is driven by our own particular view focused by the firm 's strategic plan ’ , said Mulvie . |
| 8 | Running into the target we were heavily engaged by accurate flak that caught us whilst in a large cone of searchlights . |
| 9 | But you ignored them but in the end we we had to something abo about it . |
| 10 | And they had white , the whole lot like , and they stripped off right down to a white G-string , then they turned all the lights off and dropped them and by the time they 'd put the lights black on , back on , I ca n't speak now , they 'd had , they had a black one on so they , what they must have had , they well they do , they have loads of them on , they just peel them off like one after another never actually see them naked . |
| 11 | Sir Reginald told me that on the night before U Saw went to London in the hopes of getting a promise of some kind of independence for Burma from Winston Churchill in return for full co-operation in the war , he had warned U Saw that the hopes of success were very slender . |
| 12 | A Chinese social scientist studying student behaviour told me that since the demonstrations at the end of 1986 , many had become less interested in education . |
| 13 | Then she told me that during the last winter , while I was in Sweden , my father had already had an attack , but they had not told me . |
| 14 | HARRY DEAN STANTON once told me that during the filming of 1984 's Paris , Texas , he wandered alone into the desert after a tiff with the director , Wim Wenders . |
| 15 | He told me that during the nine months he had been at the farm he and the others had noticed that the landscape had changed . |
| 16 | Ferguson explained : ‘ Lawrie told me that under a new regulation Ince must join the squad anyway . |
| 17 | ‘ He told me that in every war there had to be some casualties . |
| 18 | Polgar told me that in the early days of his marriage he examined the childhood of many famous persons and saw that geniuses all specialised in a field very early . |
| 19 | Later one of the gringos in the office told me that in the book of depositions , which began at the end of January , they were already ( in the second week of April ) at page 152 , with three entries per double page . |
| 20 | Major Roger Crees , the present clerk to the captains , told me that in the early days of the composite bow — which is made up of two or more materials glued together — the glues were not to be relied upon . |
| 21 | She told me that in the first dreadful night , when she and John stayed in the hospital , she had tried to soothe the time by the old paper game of making words out of words . |
| 22 | He told me that in the past insulin had been used to put people in coma states but he would n't dream of doing anything as crude or violent ; a silky drip of valium sedation was all that was required . |
| 23 | She told me that after the second , her son 's death , she was so angry with God that she refused to cry and found after her sister 's death , she was unable to . |
| 24 | For example , Government- or TANU- employed journalists who had given thought to the matter told me that within the provisions of the Arusha Declaration and its main socialist objectives there was a wide range of issues concerning implementation to discuss . |
| 25 | Although mainly a director of low budget productions , he told me that before the war he concerned it a poor year if he did not earn six thousand pounds , quite a sum for those days . |
| 26 | and I told you that from the minute he sat down and he started playing , I 'm a card shark , nobody tells me what I know about bloody cards |
| 27 | It woke her and for a moment she struggled , her hands coming up as if to tear it away . |
| 28 | Likewise Churchill , who would have agreed with her sentiment when she told him that without the Board of Education , the Board of Trade was ‘ powerless ’ to make ‘ a better worker , a better man , or a better citizen of the young worker . ’ |
| 29 | He received his certificate in July 1947 but the British coal industry had been nationalised in January of that year and his new bosses told him that in the changed circumstances they would not be able to carry out the undertaking he had been given . |
| 30 | I knew that Quechua , the lineal descendant of the Inca language , was spoken by the majority of the Peruvian Indians and told him that in the Gaelic-speaking parts of Scotland there were similar tensions . |