Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 2 | Some of them made it and a lot of them did n't , and the agencies , particularly the photo agencies , exploited these people mercilessly . |
| 3 | Neither of them mentioned anything that had been said during the night ; they just agreed to head back to civilisation and not to mix whisky and cannabis like that again . |
| 4 | But she was relied on to be correct , so no-one disturbed her as she worked , her arthritic hands holding a stubby pencil , her long , old-fashioned mask covering her mouth as she murmured to herself . |
| 5 | Later , I asked myself whether in my extremity I , the helpless , had been seeking , as the hymn said , the help of God , and that in the act of seeking it , I had been granted it ( he who seeks God , said Pascal , has already found him ) ; or whether this spontaneous welling-up of emotion from the depths of my being was no more than the expression of a statement to myself . |
| 6 | As he spoke , I asked myself whether the next 100 years of British history were to reflect the barren nature of his personality : the answer must be never , never , never . |
| 7 | I gazed until I asked myself if I was quite mad . |
| 8 | I asked myself if I minded and the answer was that I did n't . " |
| 9 | I asked myself and returned to folding the froth into the coffee . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I asked them if they were n't several billion years too late . |
| 12 | And I 'd got them here and I thought well I do n't know what to do with them and I b b interested in I 'm interested in going back in time , I 'll go anywhere where I can see something and I 'd been over there and they 'd got some Home Guard stuff in a case , only a small show , and I asked them if they 'd like it and they said yes . |
| 13 | I asked them if once they 'd got rid of the forty percent they could then get it back by dropping the prices , you know , they 've , they 've |
| 14 | There was a nice-looking American at the next table , however , so I asked him whether he was a drug-fiend , dealing in human misery , in which case , I said , I 'd like some Ecstasy . |
| 15 | I asked him whether , if she had been a man elevated to the peerage , he would have considered it necessary to disclose everything to do with his private life . |
| 16 | ‘ I asked him whether the person he was meeting was anything to do with him being followed , but he just laughed . ’ |
| 17 | I asked him whether he felt that this work fed off the troubled times in Belfast , and if so whether it could also have a more universal appeal . |
| 18 | I asked him whether Selden had left the country . |
| 19 | When we broke for coffee I asked him whether he 'd consulted Laura about the references I 'd turned up . |
| 20 | I asked him whether he was going to kill me . |
| 21 | I asked him whether he was and |
| 22 | I asked him whether history had changed from the dull factual subject , all about kings , queens , and the Repeal of the Corn Laws , that I encountered when I was a schoolboy . |
| 23 | I asked him whether I was right in supposing that over the years British music had been influenced much more by the Continent than vice-versa . |
| 24 | ( 15 ) I asked him but he would n't come . |
| 25 | Knowing a little of his circumstances by this time — at any rate , I knew what his job was — I asked him if he realised this would involve him in considerable expense . |
| 26 | When I asked him if I could borrow his copy he said I would n't understand it , which is true , I suppose . |
| 27 | I asked him if he was okay . |
| 28 | So I asked him if the task force would be going to the Gulf ; how many people were involved ; and what experience they had . |
| 29 | I asked him if he would teach John music , and explained the difficulty , as John wanted to know too soon and would not have the patience to practise . |
| 30 | I watched it done before , once , as a student , and it turned my stomach , and it was very distressing to me , and in the end Carrington was going to die , and he did die , but I asked him if he would do it my way . |