Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Yet they had this sort of erm this sort of feeling about them that they created themselves , that they were sort of cock of the rock , within a shipyard .
2 ‘ Well , even we could n't be sure about them until they rammed us .
3 and to St Giles and they heard about me and they offered me a month 's holiday and they were complete strangers and they gave me a month 's holiday
4 knew exactly that he was talking about me and I thought what ?
5 Of course , I 've always loved her but I 'd no idea she felt the same way about me until she told me this afternoon .
6 You were standing by the boat , demanding that I let you on board , and I felt such a raw , aching need lance through me that it shocked me .
7 Tonight was no exception , as she gazed through me and he presented his broad , squat back and bald spot .
8 A GROUP of 35 children from Dothill county infants school , Telford , will be visiting the Laura Ashley garment factory in Carno on Thursday to be presented with cotton aprons produced specially for them after they designed their own patterns based on the theme ‘ Around Our School . ’
9 oh yes he said I 've worked it out those extra hours I 've paid you for them but I thought you actually worked for them for nothing and I 've just given you a bonus
10 I unlocked the passenger door of the Transit for them but I thought it best not to open it for them or offer them a hand up and in .
11 In the end they fell upon Southwell , and the earth has literally moved for them since they purchased it in March .
12 Well , old was doing the the executorship for them because he poked his nose into everything !
13 As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away .
14 There were about thirty people waiting for them as they left their home .
15 Probably his supposed intention was a pure fiction of the monks ' imagination , but the remembrance of a lost opportunity was a heavy burden for them as they watched their rights being pared away under successive kings and archbishops .
16 He followed his robots ( two children as robot nurses ) around , whispering instructions to them and occasionally taking over and doing the tasks for them as he found it difficult to be precise in his instructions .
17 They might n't have a pound between them but he knew it would be paid .
18 ‘ It 's possible there could be conflicts between them so we felt it was important to have discussions now . ’
19 Yet again the business of running the hotel had come between them when they had something important to sort out .
20 But they did not get in each other 's way : more than twenty miles of water lay between them and they drew their vigour and their sustenance from different parts of England .
21 ‘ Sam 's going to a new school , ’ Bella said , and time was oddly foreshortened in Albert 's head so that two or three minutes of silence passed between them and he thought it only a second .
22 ‘ I climbed upon the science train because it was the only door that swung open for me after I got my degree .
23 And we decided to get lots of copies for all our friends that we have n't seen for a long long time so I asked if they could do them for me but I thought they would be back by now , well they should of been back ages ago actually !
24 And , of course , that was something so different for me because they treated you like one of themselves .
25 Working part of lunchtime had a slight advantage for me because it meant I now had a bit more time to load the container rail set .
26 It was from the credit that the , I went the education secretary his , his secretary was retiring and er he came for me because he knew I knew Guild and Co-operative work you know .
27 ‘ You did n't feel a thing for me when you kissed me , did you ?
28 I suspected it last night , and you confirmed it for me when I touched you in the lift on the way up to the restaurant tonight .
29 You were happy for me when I changed my religion should n't we be happy for Rosie ? ’
30 Trees and tree clumps have a special attraction for me as they symbolized my own introduction to Earth Mysteries , through Tony Wedd .
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