Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To illustrate the way many of them operated he cited the case of a widow who in 1894 borrowed £50 from a London loan bank on the security of her furniture which was valued at £250 . |
| 2 | The fact that Lili seemed to take an interest in me led me to think that she had never been very close to my mother . |
| 3 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 4 | His shaking hands with me made me feel half hero , half saint . |
| 5 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 6 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |
| 7 | Her grey eyes when she looked at me made me tremble . |
| 8 | None of them got him to justify our membership of the ERM , which is , as everyone knows , the cause of our high interest rates . |
| 9 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 10 | Just watching them made me feel ill . |
| 11 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 12 | Something about them made him feel deeply afraid , but he knew that he could n't just stand there . |
| 13 | Two of them made her feel , not old exactly , but as if life was passing her by They were the one from Joanne that said , " You 've reached a quarter century " and the one from Stephen , " My dearest wife " . |
| 14 | The sight of them made her feel old — old and soiled . |
| 15 | A whispering shriek of rage and terror behind them made them jump out of their skins . |
| 16 | By now she was six feet tall and to the patients she looked like Boadicea with a bedpan ; none of them found her calming , and the sisters regarded her hair with secret fear . |
| 17 | Neither of them mentioned what had taken place outside the school and neither of them would . |
| 18 | I listened to 6 sports reports on Saturday and not one of them mentioned who scored for Leeds . |
| 19 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought they were going to throw me out while the car was moving and I asked them to stop . |
| 21 | Soon it was just clumps and permanently itchy so I asked them to shave it off . |
| 22 | I asked them to return it as soon as they had done . ’ |
| 23 | They were all in their early twenties when I asked them to join Bègles ’ , said Appriou . |
| 24 | I could n't tell what was happening so I asked them to move so I could take the coal into Granny 's house . |
| 25 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 26 | When I last met them in September , I asked them to consider urgently three specific point : first , the introduction of visible vehicle identification numbers ; secondly , the fitting of deadlocking across all their vehicle ranges ; and , most important , the development of an effective vehicle immobilising device that would make it impossible to move a car even if it had been broken into . |
| 27 | Now I asked them to work in pairs or individually to find the arrangements of ten fences . |
| 28 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 29 | But I asked them to photograph those documents which we found and they do n't want to do it , so that 's up to them . |
| 30 | When I rang up to say I were coming I asked them did they want Easter eggs or did they want fa er a box of chocolates or bars of chocolate we |