Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It could be that I 've simply never felt strongly enough about anyone , ’ she cut in , instantly wishing the words unsaid as she realised how much they revealed about her feelings for him . |
| 2 | When you are ready , gently come back to the room and write down what the exercise revealed about your way-of-seeing the world . |
| 3 | SEEDY : Rumpled bed and empty bottles in the borrowed Fulham flat where Mellor and Antonia met for their steamy love sessions |
| 4 | But when the Assembly met for its first session on 5 January 1918 it immediately became clear that a majority of the deputies were hostile to the government and the Assembly was forcibly disbanded . |
| 5 | Then , she got Jessica 's C for her cooking class instead of the A Jessica got off hers . |
| 6 | family and they put me onto valium , but having worked in psychiatric I knew the results of valium , so I I gradually broke them down and got off them but for six full months I could n't sleep |
| 7 | Congress , if a few more voters got off their backsides last year and gone out and voted , and voted Labour , there 'd be no need for this motion at all because it 's Labour Party policy anyway . |
| 8 | You got off us . |
| 9 | He must have been out with his bike probably come in got off his bike went straight inside at least I brought my drink with me Well you wo n't offer me a drink . |
| 10 | In hospital I never got off my bed for six weeks . |
| 11 | Are you , er , this year was the most I got off my grandma and that as well . |
| 12 | It will refuse to stand still because the last time we got off it was punished ! |
| 13 | I said we 'd better go home and check and so we drove down to and as I got there , so the bus comes up , so it looked pretty but I thought well I 'd better check so I followed it back up and nobody got off it and |
| 14 | Food had become an obsession with everyone ; even the children talked and schemed about it constantly ; even the Padre , at this period , could hardly fall asleep without dreaming that ravens were coming to feed him but alas , no sooner did these winged waiters arrive with nourishment than he would wake up again . |
| 15 | Figure 6.5 Ants follow pheromone trails by balancing the concentrations smelled through its two antennae . |
| 16 | There are the end-of-tether diaries published as My Sister and Myself by his literary executor , Francis King , and any number of references in the voluminous literature that has grown up around the figure of E M Forster , whose acolyte Ackerley became between their first meeting in 1922 and his death , aged 71 , in 1967 . |
| 17 | His father Thomas Hope , who settled in England about 1796 , became through his writings and patronage the central figure in the neo-classical movement in England , and made his Duchess Street house , and Deepdene near Dorking , centres for his extensive collections . |
| 18 | But the more I thought about his view the less happy I became about it . |
| 19 | I made during my year a number of lasting friendships , some of which have actually turned into professional assistance in different parts of the country , and the fact that people genuinely enjoy meeting each other is shown by the annual reunions which take place , entirely at the personal expense of the individuals , which demonstrate the bond of friendship which our Institute can bring about . |
| 20 | I hated the growing fear my father ( and we ) shared during his illness , that he would mess the bed , and once suggested to him that all families should be required once a month to show each other the contents of their potties . |
| 21 | I think he lived off what he stole until he met Otto . |
| 22 | Catherine sometimes lived off it alone , Christine had strange out-of-body experiences during Mass while Jacques de Vitry tells how Mary of Oignies had visionary experiences at the elevation of the Host and found rest and relief for her spirit in the presence of the sacrament . |
| 23 | They quarrelled and argued about everything : spiritualism , art , philosophy and poetry . |
| 24 | They argued about which one was to be used . |
| 25 | In Brown the Supreme Court argued about which scheme of justice was presupposed by the structure of the Constitution , about the place of the equal protection clause in that scheme , about the true impact of that clause on the legal power of Kansas to legislate a school system , even though each justice knew that none of this was settled by convention . |
| 26 | While this internal argument reached its height , his superiors argued about him without his knowledge . |
| 27 | I often heard voices arguing , and usually they never argued about their writing . |
| 28 | And while they were taking their time we argued about something else . |
| 29 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
| 30 | We argued about it but in the end he agreed I had to tell the Josephs . |