Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learned , too , that English lesbian feminists expected you to become one of them … you either assimilated or you disintegrated . |
| 2 | During the last year of her life , when she knew herself to be mortally ill , she resolutely avoided seeing anyone she knew . |
| 3 | a pink shuff shuffalot , lent or something |
| 4 | ‘ A good thing you were near Gullholm when the engine failed or you 'd never have survived . ’ |
| 5 | Rural Britain is full of retired brigadiers and industrial captains , chaps who got where they were through diplomacy , cunning and an instinct for knocking heads together when the bugle blew . |
| 6 | ‘ Neither of us , sister , got where we are today by toeing the line . ’ |
| 7 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 8 | Like how you got where you are . |
| 9 | Can , can I make a suggestion to you on this point and that is that rather than worrying about the date of the document itself which makes sense just to put January or something like that , what you actually keep a careful record of and this can be with the issue and such like , is the date from which that procedure is required to be worked to , which would be the issue date as opposed to any date that it was typed or agreed or anything like that . |
| 10 | Then he realized where they were : the Coptic Place of the Dead . |
| 11 | Where the old lady lived where what was the house called ? |
| 12 | Their lenses are much thicker and it is thought that these species lived where there was little light and needed thick lenses to collect and concentrate what light there was . |
| 13 | Molly showed a momentary resistance once she realised where her hand was going , but with a soft moan she gave in and her fingers closed around his erect manhood . |
| 14 | She swallowed hard , dragging her eyes away as she belatedly realised where her wayward thoughts were taking her . |
| 15 | It was only when his embrace became more adventurous , his hands more demanding as he became aroused , that she realised where they were heading and she finally found the strength to pull away from him . |
| 16 | We sat on our stools and I smiled at him , thinking he was going to ask me about my dress or where I lived or something , and he said , ‘ Who 's your favourite philosopher ? ’ |
| 17 | They come to work and asked or something ? |
| 18 | The passport office in Liverpool issued me with a new passport , and , though I had made dozens of requests to the army for a vehicle , BBC Radio Manchester succeeded where I had failed . |
| 19 | Where she met where she met him then ? |
| 20 | It came as a relief at this stage to find that I had got my sums right , and everything met where it ought ! |
| 21 | We are not prepared to stand by and let schools in areas that we represent get closed or re-organised or whatever , at the expense of small village schools , which should be re-organised , or re-rationalised before schools in large urban areas . |
| 22 | a similar point arose where it proposed to serve the writ and an Anton Piller order out of the jurisdiction on a Belgian company . |
| 23 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 24 | Everyone stopped where they were and stared as she pointed dramatically at a dark green house plant which stood on some kind of plinth behind the seat she 'd been allocated . |
| 25 | Gina stopped where she was , her fingers clenched in the palms of her hand as she fought to control the surge of irritation which threatened to make her lose her temper completely , while Rune 's brilliant gaze held her in thrall , intimate , deliberately self-assured . |
| 26 | Teversham stopped where he was , saw Miss Williams notice him , and waited patiently while she dispatched four of the assorted teenagers to a distant meadow with eight ponies , and while the yard cleared of small children and their parents . |
| 27 | A chilly breeze was moving and several of them trembled where they sat . |
| 28 | The merchant-princes of Venice were not reigning princes or immensely wealthy cardinals ; they economized where they could and , although astonishing spectacle was indispensable to the success of opera , the Venetians were adept at producing striking effects with relatively simple means . |
| 29 | I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall . |
| 30 | He never found where she hid her food . |