Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they approached and noticed the unlit chillim , one of them passed us her tinder , commenting with a smile that they 'd got here just in time for all of us : they needed a smoke , and we needed a light . |
| 2 | Not one of them got what they were promised . |
| 3 | Britain has 35 million chickens but until recently , no-one asked them what they thought about where they lived . |
| 4 | And well they , some of them made them themselves , some of them , they were supplied by the merchant . |
| 5 | There had been no retaliation by the MacIans , but they all knew they were ready for it if any had come , and who to thank for the readiness ; and no-one mentioned who they had to thank for the threat . |
| 6 | Everyone stopped what they were doing . |
| 7 | The first tournament I went to was at Tucson , Arizona , and I became what they call a ‘ parking-lot caddie ’ . |
| 8 | Anyway , I asked 'im what 'e done in the war an' 'e told me it was no concern o' mine . |
| 9 | As I accelerated my pace I asked myself what I was doing here , and I did n't know the answer . |
| 10 | I asked myself what chance was there … within the next year or two of that feeling being so changed that the country would give a mandate for rearmament ? |
| 11 | I asked myself what I would feel if on his journey back to Paris he had an accident . |
| 12 | We did not promise ; but before we went back I asked them what had happened to the prisoner who had looked so funny escaping on a mule . |
| 13 | Well , I asked them you know , and they said |
| 14 | I asked them who this mythical creature was , but each time they just said , " You 'll see when you meet him . " |
| 15 | When I asked what her name was , I should not have been surprised when she replied clearly : ‘ My name is Lydia . ’ |
| 16 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 17 | I asked what she meant . |
| 18 | I asked what he meant by this . |
| 19 | I asked what he meant . |
| 20 | An unusual bird flew past , so I asked what it was — and an inner voice told me . |
| 21 | She added , ‘ After hearing the word ‘ agriculture ’ used on a number of occasions , I asked what it meant . |
| 22 | I asked what it was and one of my companions said : ‘ It is the torso of a man who was [ this morning ] cut into three pieces . ’ ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 24 | I asked him what future he foresaw for our civilization . |
| 25 | I asked him what it might have been ; after all , if he was an expert on the local birds then he ought to know . |
| 26 | When I asked him what those eminent shrinks did with themselves in the evenings he explained that they gathered in the hotel bar . |
| 27 | Seeing the look of pain on my driver 's face , I asked him what had become of Eileen , ‘ The Girl from County Donegal ’ , possessor of one of the purest ballad voices I know , with a hint of Irish mischief . |
| 28 | He is noted for possessing a ferocious intellectual curiosity — and when I asked him what he was reading while cruising across the Atlantic on Concorde , he said without flinching , Conversations with Isaiah Berlin . |
| 29 | As he pushed away from shore , the reeds of the swamp parting before us , I asked him what his name meant in Setswanan . |
| 30 | I asked him what he did , and what principles guided him . |