Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | But the next day , afore I 'd gotten fettled up — for indeed , miss , I 'd no heart to sweeping an' fettling , an' washing pots ; so I sat me down i' th' muck — who should come in but Maister Weston ! |
2 | If it was a ramshackle building where no-one wanted to live , fair enough , but that is not the case . ’ |
3 | The night porter used a passkey for those rooms that were empty or where no-one answered . |
4 | A rather closer look at the diary of military events easily conveys the impression of times of intense activity , followed by periods when little or nothing seemed to occur . |
5 | It was easy to sink into a sort of limbo , where nothing seemed any longer to be as important as it had been . |
6 | She was longing to go somewhere away from all this , among people who did n't know her , quiet and dark where nothing happened . |
7 | I know of one company where everyone became so highly motivated that most of them left , because they now found frustrating a pace which they had found acceptable before . |
8 | He swung it to the extra-cover boundary and Sabina Park , where everyone had been generous in Test defeat , could not have celebrated more had the World Cup been won . |
9 | They brought their families , some of them intermarried with time-expired soldiers who chose to settle here , too , and it grew into a real , life-and-death town , where everyone had a stake sunk so deep that when the legions started to leave , the locals still could n't get out . |
10 | What would really terrify him would be to take to an experienced orchestra a Rachmaninov symphony , or well-known works , where everyone had expectations of a fresh miracle . |
11 | Ever since she gave up full-time employment where everyone touched their cap to her , she 's found the loss of identity difficult to cope with . |
12 | The old pattern of family life , where everyone existed and acted under the family umbrella , is fast disappearing . |
13 | At the ‘ 19th ’ all prizes were presented by Captain , Danny Sproull where everyone agreed that it had been an enjoyable outing . |
14 | Oh to get away so I could exhaust myself with intense experiences , where everyone spoke of intense subjects and never said " pass the bread and butter . " |
15 | We all loaded into the Volvo and went down to Shellerton Manor where everyone trooped in to see Harry . |
16 | Seeing everyone engaged in their own private confessionals , she sipped her drink with renewed confidence . |
17 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
18 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
19 | Shearer got number 3 & I thought ‘ soddit they 've bloody lost ’ , and turned off the Radio . |
20 | Julia , Ruth & I did this between us , but none of us had had any experience running the projectors , sound or lighting equipment beforehand . |
21 | As usual , the ‘ antiques ’ in the kitchen were things Bob & I used as children . |
22 | It may be they sa Mr Eggleton with somebody shortly before he died or someone came home with bloodstained clothing . |
23 | For a start , they own that flexible ‘ I ’ ( when I say ‘ I ’ you will want to know within a paragraph or two whether I mean Julian Barnes or someone invented ; a poet can shimmy between the two , getting credit for both deep feeling and objectivity ) . |
24 | And then they want someone else 's help or whatever else and er I can see that they 're concerned that you know they have a concern or want something from me then and I pass on I some action to take place you know for you know I 've on to somebody or someone said to him , I always give my name . |
25 | Or someone had . |
26 | Something or someone had annoyed him and instantly she assumed it was because he was landed with her here in his house . |
27 | I think it 's a local gardener , or someone went to the filled up all the turf and took it all out . |
28 | ‘ Either the seeds blew in — or someone planted them as a joke , ’ said a senior officer . |
29 | He 's the one that , somebody tried to assassinate him or someone tried to kill him off . |
30 | ( i ) The official receiver ( or someone nominated in writing by him ) is the chairman of the first meeting . |