Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We never recorded what information we sent them or received from them . |
| 2 | She surprised herself , the words came out , she had not thought about them or thought at all about this subject . |
| 3 | I no longer believed them or believed in them , having to believe in myself as a matter of survival . |
| 4 | Tell me it 's someone else , tell me it was just someone that looked like you . ’ |
| 5 | If he 'd met someone and wanted to be unfaithful , he would have found an opportunity and I could n't have stopped him . |
| 6 | Once there , we lifted ourselves and looked at one another , both of us laughing , trudging grass-stained to the top again . |
| 7 | He squatted down beside her and took one of her hands in his and waited for her to go on . |
| 8 | Impulsively she put her hand over his and said with passion : ‘ You are going to have to deal with a smart , slick world , quick to ridicule those who do not understand its manners — a world where you want friends , not enemies . |
| 9 | I shall have words with you later , Rob , ’ he added significantly , then he turned as Heather slid her arm into his and stood on tiptoe to kiss his cheek . |
| 10 | When the man who waited with her crept to her shoulder and whispered in her ear , as he did several times between his nervous pacings about the room , she made him no answer , and never seemed even to be aware of him , though her braced tension made it plain that nothing that passed in this apartment escaped her instant notice . |
| 11 | Definitely no pier and nothing that looked like a break in the reef . |
| 12 | Nothing that mattered to her . |
| 13 | It was almost as if nothing that happened to children could surprise them any more . |
| 14 | Looking down at the river , she could see that the level had dropped , uncovering lines of bricks on the wall beneath them that looked as if they rarely saw the sun . |
| 15 | He was walking very rapidly , far faster than Shiva was going in the opposite direction , from a building with long windows and white-uniformed men and girls behind them that looked like a lab , towards the main block . |
| 16 | Them that died of typhoid , that 's where they were put . |
| 17 | A lot of them that came to the g to the gathering To the sports they would stay over just for the sake of getting the dance . |
| 18 | But they they always come and knock for me and you know they kicked that , you it was them that kicked down the walls ? |
| 19 | She began to feel the urgent rise and fall of his chest against the compact roundness of her young breasts , and knew a tingling awareness in them that threaded through her entire body in a way that was completely new to her and utterly wonderful . |
| 20 | Yes , as a as a as a porter or a a a erm what they what used to call them that worked on the line , there was a special name for the li the people that read repaired the lines . |
| 21 | Chaps had been called up into the army , nearly all of them that worked with us , they were all on army reserve . |
| 22 | It seems to me that it is impossible to say that in carrying out that exercise he misdirected himself or came to a conclusion to which he could not reasonably have come in the exercise of his discretion . |
| 23 | It is of course a very difficult subject to talk about and many families who know or suspect that a relative has killed himself or tried to , are ashamed and refuse to talk about it , or make up all kinds of stories to cover the fact up . |
| 24 | But er there was a whole range of things like , Put in the hand and and erm they thought you were n't eating plenty or told to and supper . |
| 25 | He was not , it appears , in any way responsible for the Montagu declaration — though he anticipated its thinking-but came on the scene shortly afterwards as one of the chief architects of the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms . |
| 26 | The best bit 's when the light 's out , and I can listen to her breathing , and if I want to say summat — you know , summat that happened in the day — I can just speak soft and she 'll hear me . |
| 27 | He was not in any sense a vain man , but he had a conceit of himself that came from the knowledge that he dominated every quarter that he occupied . |
| 28 | Oh there 's somebody that lived in the house in |
| 29 | Steve acted swiftly , excused himself and sped after her . |
| 30 | Constance detected a change in the atmosphere as Giancarlo excused himself and walked down the steps to greet his last guest . |