Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used to These they used to be a round used to be round you know and not very used to hit them as you hit them with a stick you see , they used to wheel wheel round and round . |
| 2 | Chris Fry must have heard them and he did his best by knocking in number four … |
| 3 | They were glad to see me and they shook me by the hand and one of them said : |
| 4 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 5 | A little crowd was encouraging them while they performed what somebody told me was a tango . |
| 6 | ‘ You do n't think you might have consulted me before you suggested it ? — It was your idea , I imagine . ’ |
| 7 | I tell you what I , the hedging I liked too , is if you can have a hedging that comes , you know , some of the garden centres sell them that you got something every month of the year |
| 8 | ‘ God , would you fancy me if I said I was ? |
| 9 | You asked me whether I thought we could trust the boy . |
| 10 | On the way to the station we heard a kerbstone musician playing the concertina , and Eliot , struck by the tune , asked me if I knew what it was . |
| 11 | ‘ No , ’ she said , then she asked me if I knew anything about them . |
| 12 | He asked me if I knew anything about ley lines and I confessed my ignorance . |
| 13 | This letter is going to be devoted to my affairs in connection with Edward … the other day he asked me if I thought you would care to go for a walk into the country somewhere . |
| 14 | Well I did think about it but the Careers Officer advised me no cos he thought that you have to be really really good before y get in and he asked me if I thought I was really good and I said that well I was not too bad but and he said that he thought it would be better to concentrate on something else . |
| 15 | ‘ I did an interview with the Utah Review , this student paper , and at the end they asked me if I had anything I wanted to add . |
| 16 | He saw the radio propped on the little stool and asked me if I played it while I worked . |
| 17 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 18 | They asked me if I wanted me P forty five framed or unframed . |
| 19 | At first they asked me if I wanted my mum to go out but I said No , but when they started asking me all those sorts of questions they asked me again and I said Yes . |
| 20 | ‘ He asked me if I wanted it . |
| 21 | That was me and Desmond , we duplicated them and he printed them out for something like £150 each . |
| 22 | Although his aunts had always been kind to him , Frankie tried his best not to like them because he knew they were only pretending to be nice . |
| 23 | At the same time , he took great trouble over the team 's welfare , even to the extent of helping them when they signed their contracts . |
| 24 | Yeah they were building them when we got there were n't they ? |
| 25 | I washed them trainers our Johnny given me and I cleaned them for him to try and save and then them black shoes for school to save his boots for the |
| 26 | I picked up my books and stuffed them away in my old school satchel , the one my father — Tata — had given me when I won my open scholarship to St Paul 's . |
| 27 | Duncan was too afraid to taste them so he shut his baby dinosaur lips and shook his head again . |
| 28 | So I asked them if they needed anyone to help out on Saturdays The guy behind the counter said , we do as it happens but you 'll have to speak to Malcolm when he comes in . |
| 29 | For his part he noticed , not the dress but the slender-waisted , full-breasted figure it adorned ; the pretty face and the abundant dark hair which the bonnet framed ; the large amber eyes which met his as he helped her in . |
| 30 | Finnan labelled them as they ate their evening meal . |