Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , however , I want to concentrate on the 15 years during which the two of them lived and worked together , and Pollock made a bid to change the course of what was then thought of as modern art . |
| 2 | As the throng around me rippled and shifted , I had seen the occupants of two other , larger tables . |
| 3 | The record came to an end and everyone clapped and gave high-spirited whoops and whistles . |
| 4 | On a trip to Dublin two of them asked and received permission to share a double room away from ‘ the children ’ . |
| 5 | She closed her eyes and arched blindly against him , let him guide her into another kind of darkness , where that unknown vortex of emotion , that powerful pull of attraction between them swirled and hypnotised , and this time the stars behind her eyelids were brilliant but softly incandescent , fireworks of intense delight , bursting in her head … |
| 6 | Those companies between them owned or managed 95 fishing vessels which were until 31 March 1989 registered as British fishing vessels under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 ( 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60 ) . |
| 7 | No-one gritted or jutted better than Hanif Mohammad . |
| 8 | None of them moved or looked at me . |
| 9 | Neither of them moved or spoke for several minutes . |
| 10 | ‘ It was awful , Guy , ’ she whispered , after a long time when neither of them moved or spoke . |
| 11 | Everyone stopped and looked around and one or two voices shouted back to him along the valley . |
| 12 | Bumping along the rough track out of the town towards the range of red hills to the south , everyone joked and laughed like children on a school outing . |
| 13 | When he had said these things they all replied that they prayed God to preserve him through long and happy years , and four of the most honourable among them rose and kissed his hands , and the Cid bade them take their seats again . |
| 14 | But no-one used that label in the ninth century ; nor did Charles ever call himself king of the West Franks : his own royal title was simply " king by the grace of God " . |
| 15 | I asked while cutting up a British Telecom van — rather niftily I thought . |
| 16 | If you 'd done as I asked and left me alone then none of it would have happened . ’ |
| 17 | worried about them being so far as they 've the only child , and talked them into come down and live with us , so then I applied and got a move to just after it was built , which was a four bedroom house . |
| 18 | I applied and got the details but never bothered sending off the application form because I did n't think I was capable of doing what was asked . |
| 19 | I happened to see the post advertised with OBEX so I applied and got the job . ’ |
| 20 | Alec and I lowered and carried Father by turns . |
| 21 | Then I skidded and slanted through into Public Baths Surf . |
| 22 | I schemed and schemed to get that key , but Irina was too clever for me . |
| 23 | Again in January I revealed that press tycoon Conrad Black was to marry . |
| 24 | I GAZED AND GAZED , BUT LITTLE THOUGHT |
| 25 | ‘ I made that mistake once , but you should widen your interests , cut down on the travel and delegate more , ’ she told him , her expression serious . |
| 26 | ‘ All right , ’ says Howard , smiling to himself , on the side of his face away from her , in case she opens her eyes , ‘ I made that bit up . |
| 27 | Erm tt there 's er one point I would like to make , when I , when I made that comment about she 's only the wife , and I 'll just clarify why I said that and this is it 's amus a few years ago some , somebody who was , we were taking a policy out with right was , came to me and was , was talking and making arrangements to , to come and see us and he patronisingly said erm and your husband 'll be there , and I patronisingly said back , and you 'll be bringing your wife , because of the way that he came across to me and I , I mean |
| 28 | " Forty times I made that ride there and back — in the bus , not the jeep like you two , " he told us . |
| 29 | I liked your ideas ; I made that clear before , did n't I ? |
| 30 | " I made that excuse for him last year when he 'd been with us six months . |