Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learned , too , that English lesbian feminists expected you to become one of them … you either assimilated or you disintegrated . |
| 2 | The passport office in Liverpool issued me with a new passport , and , though I had made dozens of requests to the army for a vehicle , BBC Radio Manchester succeeded where I had failed . |
| 3 | Where she met where she met him then ? |
| 4 | a similar point arose where it proposed to serve the writ and an Anton Piller order out of the jurisdiction on a Belgian company . |
| 5 | A chilly breeze was moving and several of them trembled where they sat . |
| 6 | I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall . |
| 7 | He never found where she hid her food . |
| 8 | Puzzled , I finally twigged where they had come from : the synthetic rock — supposedly safe — that I had decorated the tank with . |
| 9 | I was very annoyed over the whole business this end , when it transpired that nobody had any information on the subject either . |
| 10 | It also transpired that he had done virtually no mathematics . |
| 11 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 12 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |
| 13 | It also proved to be a fall from grace , as it transpired that he 'd stolen millions of pounds from his workers ' pension funds , to pay off mounting business debts . |
| 14 | It transpired that he wanted to be able to comment on each question in more depth and indeed some staff did so on separate sheets . |
| 15 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 16 | It transpired that she had also been one of a party at the Hall the same day . |
| 17 | They proposed that they became Frankish vassals in return for protection against the expanding might of Abd-ar-Rahman the Ommeyad , who had taken over virtually the whole of Spain . |
| 18 | Lily said , ‘ No , we can get Miss Bradshaw 's signature any time we want it ’ , and Vernon shouted that they had a perfect right to loiter on a public pavement . |
| 19 | Shouted that he knew I was inside . |
| 20 | I shouted that he did not know what he was talking about and held the telephone away from my face . |
| 21 | She was ‘ extremely upset ’ and shouted that she knew they would not believe her and left the workshop . |
| 22 | My conscience shouted that I had to inform . |
| 23 | Er and that er in my view anyway demonstrated that we 'd got it about right in terms of our assessment of the effects of the Southern Bypass . |
| 24 | He clearly demonstrated that they formed their spores in sac-like structures known as asci , typical of the Ascomycetes . |
| 25 | As long ago as 1893 , I.S. Leadam demonstrated that they did in fact enjoy the protection of the courts . |
| 26 | It was threatened again ( though Edward VIII made it plain that he would only comply if the Liberal government demonstrated that it had a popular mandate for abolition ) in 1909 . |
| 27 | The same was not true of the broader European Economic Community , which despite its wider brief demonstrated that it had both strength and flexibility . |
| 28 | Though the three major Allies — the United States , the Soviet Union , and Great Britain — were willing to concede this parity on occasion , the very act of conceding it demonstrated that it did not in reality exist . |
| 29 | Today he made a humiliating climb down in the Commons and demonstrated that he 'd lost his political touch — that he did n't realise how upset the voters would be if he put 30,000 — going on 100,000 — people out of work . |
| 30 | When I heard recently on the radio that he had been arrested in Tasmania the wild fancy occurred that someone had forgotten to de-miniaturise him and that he had finally worked his way through to Australia . |