Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been shown which locker in the room was his and told that one of his cell-mates was on work detail , the other in the exercise yard . |
| 2 | There were no Rembrandts , no Chippendale furniture , nothing that indicated that Harold Wilson had achieved any prosperity in his many arduous years in opposition . |
| 3 | She wondered which part of the house Fernando and Maria Luisa occupied , which were their own personal quarters , because so far she had seen nothing that indicated that a happy couple occupied the place . |
| 4 | In Committee , the Government said nothing that suggested that such a change will be made . |
| 5 | Now I found that , you see , cos I passed my eleven plus and I lived in Hampshire and the grammar school was Hampshire Grammar School for Girls , which was quite a long way away from where I lived and it would have entailed a bus and the train and I and there was only me that passed and I , I did n't wan na do it . |
| 6 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 7 | He kicked out as if kicking himself and yelped as his bare feet hit the end of the basket and a sharp end of wicker stabbed into his sole . |
| 8 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |
| 9 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 10 | We went to the er B M A or the G M C I 'm not quite sure which and asked if we could could approach er doctors for this and they 've been snapping our hands off ever since . |
| 11 | Blencowe apparently owed his career as a judge to Wallis who turned down a bishopric for himself but asked that his son-in-law be considered for a judicial appointment [ DNB , 20 , 598–602 ] . |
| 12 | Ray Darby could not say which but confirmed that the note sent to Wainfleet was on paper identical to that used for the death threat . |
| 13 | Bernice shook loose the amiable scrap of nothing and watched as it fluttered away , lost in moments in the gentle glow of Moloch 's endless day . |
| 14 | He looked at me and grinned and shook his head . |
| 15 | She responded , but almost as if I was n't there , so I did a few gestures in front of her face — Signalman Flagging Down Runaway Express , sort of thing — and she briefly focused on me and laughed and then went back into her secret nuptial sett . |
| 16 | The day before contracts were due to be exchanged , the vendor phoned me and asked whether we could keep on his current lodger who was a student and about to take his final exams . |
| 17 | Several times it 's happened to me that someone has come up to me and asked if I 've ever done a play . |
| 18 | A few days later Lord Thorneycroft , the Party Chairman , and Alastair ( now Lord ) McAlpine came to me and asked if we could stage another for the European Elections — three weeks later . |
| 19 | An upper-class homosexual-looking man with white hair and glittering eyes came up to me and asked if I wanted to go to a Black Mass . |
| 20 | He then turned to me and asked if I was signing a contract too . |
| 21 | With that she lifted the latch , but before opening the door she turned to me and asked if I would like to go shopping with her . |
| 22 | She turned to me and asked if I had spoken to my husband today , was he well , and the children . |
| 23 | A year beforehand , Chudnovsky , who was a collector from Leningrad , and a very well-known one , had been to see me and asked if I could help him . |
| 24 | ‘ About forty minutes before the train was due to arrive this man came up to me and asked if I 'd be interested in making five hundred francs . |
| 25 | As I passed the bakery on my way home , Didier ran out of the shop to greet me and asked if he might accompany me . |
| 26 | My first encounter with Kagan took place when Wilson telephoned me and asked if I would see him . |
| 27 | One day one of the German officers stationed in Fontanellato , an Oberleutnant Bauer , called on me and asked if I could give him Italian lessons . |
| 28 | ‘ Because , three months ago , Heather telephoned me and asked if I 'd taken Clare to the Skein of Geese a couple of weeks before her death . |
| 29 | I have tried to bring him to me and failed and now I can not hope any longer . |
| 30 | I was about to go back to the hotel when a pool attendant gestured to me and whispered that he urgently needed to change Iraqi dinars into dollars . |