Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You asked me whether I thought we could trust the boy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ No , ’ she said , then she asked me if I knew anything about them . |
| 5 | He asked me if I knew anything about ley lines and I confessed my ignorance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | He saw the radio propped on the little stool and asked me if I played it while I worked . |
| 10 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 11 | They asked me if I wanted me P forty five framed or unframed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ He asked me if I wanted it . |
| 14 | That was me and Desmond , we duplicated them and he printed them out for something like £150 each . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Finnan labelled them as they ate their evening meal . |
| 18 | Bits yes well Georgina round the corner apparently she has the lot new , because the bank moved them and they paid her and it was over four hundred pounds . |
| 19 | Monty promised me that I had nothing to worry about . |
| 20 | ‘ Old Amos botched me when he made me from his seed . |
| 21 | ‘ She phoned me after you interviewed her and said she guessed you 'd found out about the affair — to warn me . |
| 22 | Yes and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said . |
| 23 | Yes , and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said , you know , I just do n't see anybody , I said well of course you were working on Mondays , you see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and , we , we could talk , but that 's gone and I said I ca n't run in at half past five when you get home from school and chat to you because Ned will be coming home at six and I do n't want to be there all that often when he 's there erm its you know , its just happened and I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away then Fen Lane . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought he was laughing at me , that he did n't want to see me , but then he stopped me and he made me a little bow , just like a real gentleman , and gave me a present , as if he did care . |
| 25 | The Bishop of Lincoln thought it ridiculous that this powerful engine which was Michael Ramsey should be used in a tiny little parish , and said so , but blessed him when he found he wanted to go . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're too proud , ’ I scolded him as I brushed his black hair . |
| 27 | And he said I was completely confused and I could n't , he said I was trying to shout my wife and erm and , er , you know my mouth would n't work , he said , but she said fortunately she looked through the window and er found him and they took him to hospital . |
| 28 | You found him and you entered him . |
| 29 | Then they beat him with the pipes once again , but when they realized that he had managed to keep his secrets from them , that this small Englishman was not for talking , they turned on him in their fury and kicked and beat him until they feared they had killed him . |
| 30 | ‘ One more thing ! ’ his voice stopped her before she made it through to the other side . |