Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | I was n't happy with myself and I felt like no-one really listened to me or understood me , ’ she revealed . |
2 | The otter either heard me or got my scent , because it suddenly looked up , then stood up and moved out of sight round the other side of the rock . |
3 | Well I mean they 've never really spoken about it one way or another , encouraged me or discouraged me , which I think I 'm grateful for . |
4 | Not all the congratulatory letters were complimentary , but I 'm just as grateful to those who took me to task or argued with me or lectured me as I am to those who gave me a kind pat . |
5 | If anybody has any absolutely yes I 'll be quite happy I mean to me chairman of the trust or with management committee to meet anybody if they feel that they 've got some concern they wish to discuss I 'm quite happy to do that all I can say is that nobody has actually wro wro wrote to me or rang me to say they 'd like to meet to discuss that and I 'm quite happy to do that . |
6 | Was it me or did it look like the game was in slow motion then ? |
7 | Erm did n't say you 'll go back and work out a plan of attack for me or did you ? |
8 | It was like every time I got a letter or an insinuation from him that he cared , or that he really loved me or wanted me to be with him , it shocked me because he was n't good at showing that . |
9 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
10 | It 's too easy to tell a child not to make a fuss , it 's a big playground and to go and play away from whoever has hit them or kicked them or fallen out with them . |
11 | Above Dorothea 's head , six new , blue mugs hung on six newly-erected hooks , for Florence Ames thought of all things and was constantly suggesting improvements — not that she insisted upon them or took anything in hand , only looked and suggested and then left the idea to be considered , accepted or rejected . |
12 | She loaned them money , saved it for them or doled it out when necessary , all the transactions being written on the souvenir programme of whatever show she was appearing in . |
13 | Blake could n't say whether the creatures were pursuing them or had their own sinister reason for haunting this part of London . |
14 | Suppose she 'd managed to acquire personal things of Harry 's , his sunglasses , a pen , even a belt , and wore them or carried them with her , as young people do . |
15 | Nobody took much notice of them or expected them to start up any form of conversation , so Charles was surprised when Eric addressed him by name . |
16 | What did you decorate them or did you just leave them plain ? |
17 | When machines went funny you just oiled them or prodded them or , if nothing else worked , hit them with a hammer . |
18 | I walked them for three or four hours a day , but nothing tired them or won their love . |
19 | Someone must have blown them or snuffed them , because the darkness was sudden and almost complete . |
20 | He still drank , began to smoke , and only took notice of his wife and child to shout at them or hit them , usually when he was drunk . |
21 | Depending on how influential people were , Mickey either nodded at them or gave them a hearty greeting . |
22 | If they guarantee to put the mattresses all up in the dry they asked you to do yours or did they say they would do it ? |
23 | well I mean I 'm not surprised they do n't wan na take a picture of our garden cos it 's a mess but er I 'd have thought he would have taken a picture of yours and sold you one . |
24 | David grinned in that unassuming way of his and made his class line-up for my autograph . |
25 | He turned my face to his and kissed them away — overpowering me with such a potent mixture of excitement and tenderness and yearning that I almost swooned . |
26 | As the taxi jolted through the streets of Butterfield , she linked her arm through his and kissed him . |
27 | She put her face to his and kissed him . |
28 | He pushed his face awkwardly into my hand , nuzzling it like a puppy , and then suddenly grabbed it in both his and kissed it . |
29 | But when she would have moved lower in her innocent foray Guy captured her hands with one of his and pinned them gently above her head . |
30 | She had modelled her speech on his and asked him to correct her if she said something wrong . |