Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the last year of her life , when she knew herself to be mortally ill , she resolutely avoided seeing anyone she knew . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Neither of us , sister , got where we are today by toeing the line . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Like how you got where you are . |
| 6 | Then he realized where they were : the Coptic Place of the Dead . |
| 7 | Where the old lady lived where what was the house called ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She swallowed hard , dragging her eyes away as she belatedly realised where her wayward thoughts were taking her . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Where she met where she met him then ? |
| 14 | It came as a relief at this stage to find that I had got my sums right , and everything met where it ought ! |
| 15 | a similar point arose where it proposed to serve the writ and an Anton Piller order out of the jurisdiction on a Belgian company . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A chilly breeze was moving and several of them trembled where they sat . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall . |
| 23 | He never found where she hid her food . |
| 24 | Dr Gilvear 's study found that most often the breaches in the embankments occurred where they overlaid old channels and were vulnerable to erosion . |
| 25 | Puzzled , I finally twigged where they had come from : the synthetic rock — supposedly safe — that I had decorated the tank with . |
| 26 | He could not control his horse which finally bolted so he and the royal purveyor stayed drinking in Inverkeithing . |
| 27 | That occurred although it took up a large slice of their already-depleted income , and they also ran the risk of getting lung cancer and other smoking related diseases , and placed the health of their children in jeopardy . |
| 28 | I managed four , but they tasted like they 'd been pickled in piss . ’ |
| 29 | Then they moved to Chelmsford by foot , where they stopped until they embarked for France on 30 March 1915 , part of the 145th Infantry Brigade of the 48th Division . |
| 30 | She placed his pulsing prong back into her luscious wet mouth , and sucked until his spunk fired into the back of her throat . |