Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [coord] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind was strong and bitterly cold as we prepared ourselves and I tried in vain to put my boots on without leaving the car , until I cracked my forehead on someone 's ice-axe in the back seat . |
| 2 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 3 | He introduced himself and she responded with engaging candour : ‘ Cathy Carne — I work in the shop . |
| 4 | For a time he believed he had a vocation to be a priest himself but he reverted to a previous plan to save sufficient money to go to university . |
| 5 | I recollect a tall , dark , handsome girl standing up in our midst , among the damp refuse and the lumps of tarred rope , and repeating without mistake in a not unmusical voice , clear and ringing , the wonderful 14th Chapter of St John 's Gospel — the words of Jesus all through … she had seated herself and they listened in perfect silence , this audience — wretched , ignorant , criminal some , wild and defiant others . |
| 6 | I was n't happy with myself and I felt like no-one really listened to me or understood me , ’ she revealed . |
| 7 | Anyway when the time came to , to , to stop off for short time everybody had had their turn except the union president and myself and he came to me this foreman and he said er , now John I do n't want you to think what happened between me and you will make any difference about being sent back for . |
| 8 | You went to work by yourself but you had to be taken to the hospital , and when I was on Martin it was right next door . |