Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been shown which locker in the room was his and told that one of his cell-mates was on work detail , the other in the exercise yard . |
| 2 | Now I found that , you see , cos I passed my eleven plus and I lived in Hampshire and the grammar school was Hampshire Grammar School for Girls , which was quite a long way away from where I lived and it would have entailed a bus and the train and I and there was only me that passed and I , I did n't wan na do it . |
| 3 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 4 | He looked at me and grinned and shook his head . |
| 5 | She responded , but almost as if I was n't there , so I did a few gestures in front of her face — Signalman Flagging Down Runaway Express , sort of thing — and she briefly focused on me and laughed and then went back into her secret nuptial sett . |
| 6 | The day before contracts were due to be exchanged , the vendor phoned me and asked whether we could keep on his current lodger who was a student and about to take his final exams . |
| 7 | Several times it 's happened to me that someone has come up to me and asked if I 've ever done a play . |
| 8 | A few days later Lord Thorneycroft , the Party Chairman , and Alastair ( now Lord ) McAlpine came to me and asked if we could stage another for the European Elections — three weeks later . |
| 9 | An upper-class homosexual-looking man with white hair and glittering eyes came up to me and asked if I wanted to go to a Black Mass . |
| 10 | He then turned to me and asked if I was signing a contract too . |
| 11 | With that she lifted the latch , but before opening the door she turned to me and asked if I would like to go shopping with her . |
| 12 | She turned to me and asked if I had spoken to my husband today , was he well , and the children . |
| 13 | A year beforehand , Chudnovsky , who was a collector from Leningrad , and a very well-known one , had been to see me and asked if I could help him . |
| 14 | ‘ About forty minutes before the train was due to arrive this man came up to me and asked if I 'd be interested in making five hundred francs . |
| 15 | As I passed the bakery on my way home , Didier ran out of the shop to greet me and asked if he might accompany me . |
| 16 | My first encounter with Kagan took place when Wilson telephoned me and asked if I would see him . |
| 17 | One day one of the German officers stationed in Fontanellato , an Oberleutnant Bauer , called on me and asked if I could give him Italian lessons . |
| 18 | ‘ Because , three months ago , Heather telephoned me and asked if I 'd taken Clare to the Skein of Geese a couple of weeks before her death . |
| 19 | I have tried to bring him to me and failed and now I can not hope any longer . |
| 20 | I was about to go back to the hotel when a pool attendant gestured to me and whispered that he urgently needed to change Iraqi dinars into dollars . |
| 21 | One of the Officers turned to me and indicated that I should push off . |
| 22 | He just came to me and said that he was unhappy and I said OK . |
| 23 | So I let her just pass , and said , ‘ Oh , darling , I am looking for a new ‘ element ’ … ’ ; and after half an hour the manager came back to me and said that she was sitting upstairs weeping . |
| 24 | She also had a doctor brought in who examined me and said that I was fine . |
| 25 | We had not been going for more than half an hour when the driver of the sick man 's bullock cart came to me and said that all was now well , we need go no further . |
| 26 | After a cursory examination , he turned to me and said that we must get the boy to hospital quickly . |
| 27 | He thanked me and said that my application would be on the table for consideration at the next meeting of the committee . |
| 28 | ‘ There were a few kids who came up to meet me and said that they were n't going to vote until they heard what I had to say . ’ |
| 29 | And erm the only other outstanding sponsor from last year was Northern Rock and that has been a bit of a qu a problem because er it 's , we have n't had a closing gala event which might attract them but just recently erm Paul who as you know performed last year with his band so er well er is , had rang me and said that they are doing something in Venice and they could in fact take the boat to Hull rather than to Dover and bring it here and I 'm , so I 'm working on the assumption that we might have that . |
| 30 | However , the er holder came to me and said that they , he would like to invest a considerable sum in new equipment , refrigerators blah blah blah . |