Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [conj] [vb past] " 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 If you 'd done as I asked and left me alone then none of it would have happened . ’
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 I happened to see the post advertised with OBEX so I applied and got the job . ’
18 Alec and I lowered and carried Father by turns .
19 Then I skidded and slanted through into Public Baths Surf .
20 I schemed and schemed to get that key , but Irina was too clever for me .
21 I GAZED AND GAZED , BUT LITTLE THOUGHT
22 ‘ 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 .
23 I made and ate supper , washed up , then watched the changing view of evening from the haven of the cottage window , and went early to bed .
24 Then I fainted and fell to the floor .
25 It seems that Antonietta was nearby when I fainted and arranged for me to be taken back to her house .
26 I was to be one of these victims , and I had to go afternoon after hot afternoon to learn to embroider in a room that even with the windows open was almost completely airless , trying to keep my eyes open while I stitched and listened to endless gossip .
27 What made me finally decide to insist on this was when I realized that had you been a man , Miranda , or had I not been personally involved with you , I would n't have hesitated to ask for these shares . ’
28 I chewed betel with the barefoot skipper in his wheel-house until , as the old tub began to roll in the outside channel , I realised that had been a mistake .
29 No , he 's gone to a play at the college and a yeah I was er like when I realised that had come on I thought does he know ?
30 I argued and pleaded
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