Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the last year of her life , when she knew herself to be mortally ill , she resolutely avoided seeing anyone she knew . |
| 2 | In taking into account the user of the vehicle which they actually found or which they inferred from the practice of the previous owner it seems to me they did not err . |
| 3 | Wickham had let it become obvious that important parts of his story did not coincide with the version supplied by the only other person on the spot but Tavett maintained that what he said was correct . |
| 4 | He returned to the living-room and found that what he had taken to be a cupboard door , in fact gave access by a flight of stairs to the shop . |
| 5 | Er , the comment here the way that I have been used to doing these I found that I I like it and the kids can |
| 6 | I ask that you should pay what I have provided and legated and what I shall provide and legate in codicils . ’ |
| 7 | The Spirit of Jesus , entering our lives , comes to us as God 's adoption present , so to speak , and enables us to call God by the intimate family name which Jesus used and which we have already considered . |
| 8 | i it 's , it 's obviously a thing which , if one can possibly avoid it 's a good idea to and erm I must say it helped but it you do n't know what is helping because you know we do n't know what her symptoms are going to be . |
| 9 | No no not when it occurred but what it is and when it 's gon na be collected is . |
| 10 | We have seen it regarded as something it could not be . |
| 11 | Paris , unlike the journey , had its disappointments , though she realized that what she principally disliked was the position from which she was viewing it . |
| 12 | As he was a brilliant classical scholar , it is possible that he realized that what he had discovered was in line with one of Hippocrates ' systems , formulated so many centuries before . |
| 13 | " Not far now , Hlao-roo , not far now , " he kept muttering , until he realized that what he said had become meaningless , a mere refrain . |
| 14 | Finally , he realized that what he really felt was fear : not for her safety , but fear that she might have gone out of his life . |
| 15 | Pascoe realized that what he 'd heard in the voice on the phone had n't been age , but sickness . |
| 16 | He realized that what he was about to attempt was fraught with dangers , for Bernice and for himself . |
| 17 | I think he realized that what he might call the party of reason , that 's to say the party of those who do n't see things in terms of ideological shibboleths , but in terms of the long-run interests of humanity , ca n't become a party of action . |
| 18 | She and I agreed that what we really envied them for was the power of crying when they are bored or , as an extreme measure , being sick . |
| 19 | ‘ IT IS time trade union leaders realised that what they perceive as power merely prolongs their political impotence and deprives their members of a telling voice in the corridor of power . |
| 20 | Now , when he allowed her so much of his time , she realised that what she had felt before was but a poor shade of the real thing . |
| 21 | But by now she realised that what she really wanted to do was act ( she chose drama at high school to get out of English ) . |
| 22 | But once I 'd had a chance to calm down a little I realised that what I wanted was you . |
| 23 | Then you walked into my life , and I suddenly realised that what I had felt for Claire may have been sexual attraction , but it was never love . ’ |
| 24 | She soon realised that what he had said was true : taste and style were inborn . |
| 25 | Hopefully , she waited for him to return to her side , but when he failed to do so she realised that whatever he had been about to say would be left unsaid . |
| 26 | Now , at last , she realised that whatever she had felt for Richard was long since buried , under an avalanche of hurt and disillusion . |
| 27 | The plaintiff , in an action under the Factories Act 1961 , s. 14 , was held to have been 100% contributorily negligent after he admitted that what he had done had been extremely foolish . |
| 28 | While recognizing that poor local economic management was partly to blame for the region 's debt crisis , the report argued that what it described as the banks ' irresponsible lending practices meant they should also share responsibility and assume greater losses . |
| 29 | You read it very quickly and and it would almost he had it would be he 'd or whatever it is that the word was you know that y you |
| 30 | We believed that what we were doing did n't infringe on the characters of any group of people , and therefore we had a clear mind . |