Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is the issue is that you expected me to stay and I did n't . |
| 2 | Slightly perplexed , but fascinated , I invited him to elaborate and he outlined how , since arriving in London in 1961 at the age of 9 , he had been rocked by the awareness that his colour could place him in a position of possible — or probable — disadvantage . |
| 3 | I told you to stop and you did n't |
| 4 | In 1894 he went to Oxford University as a non-collegiate student but ill health caused him to leave and he spent the year 1895 acting as tutor to an English family in Odessa . |
| 5 | After confiscating their musical instruments , the police allowed them to proceed and they went on to parade — much more quietly than they would have liked . |
| 6 | It was my mother who taught me to cook and who taught me too about being a mother . |
| 7 | Well she taught me to knit and she taught me to do a lot of embroidery and that sort of thing . |
| 8 | I willed you to come and you did and now you are here and I 'm never going to let you out of my sight again . |
| 9 | A course of antibiotics enabled him to continue and he ended up in a tie for second place alongside Jose Maria Olazabal . |
| 10 | Because by this time you had moved on to explaining what you wanted me to do and I think I had missed some essential point . |
| 11 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |