Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mrs Orton proposed that they listen to the Queen 's Speech on the radio , Bill 's only protest was to produce a bottle of brandy from his case , open one of his gift books , roll himself a cigarette with gift tobacco , lean back and stare covertly at his son . |
| 2 | Mother wept to see Father 's state , and proposed that we set out for Chiguana , the nearest town where we might expect to find a hospital , immediately . |
| 3 | I proposed that we fish the same swim , which was large enough to accommodate both of us without the risk of crossed lines . |
| 4 | In a surprise move , NEC Corp has approached Convex Computer Corp and proposed that it market the Convex C3 minisupercomputers in Japan to plug the gap below its own SX3 supercomputers . |
| 5 | I proposed that I teach one woman what I knew so that she could teach the others after we got more machines . |
| 6 | One example , suggesting that we may be able mentally to rotate objects , was mentioned at the end of the last chapter , and a second , in this one , demonstrated that we do in fact recognize sets of similar markings ( note that a psychological demonstration that we can do something , and an account of a calculation which would enable us to do so , are quite different things ) . |
| 7 | The autumn statement yesterday demonstrated that we have substantially increased in real terms — after inflation — the spending in each of the three areas that my hon. Friend mentioned . |
| 8 | ‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe . |
| 9 | The current generation of devices has already established a growing acceptance of electronic media among information users and demonstrated that they have a choice in the way they get access to the resources they need . |
| 10 | Says Bartle : ‘ We demonstrated that you do n't need to spend a vast amount of money for advertising to work and be successful . |
| 11 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 12 | You mentioned that we need a stronger centre in government . |
| 13 | Er I mentioned that we have made an allowance for students in this migration . |
| 14 | She rejected about a dozen of these sample shades before she mentioned that they cost sixty or seventy pence each . |
| 15 | ‘ Dame Sybil mentioned that you have no ribbon to fasten your braid , my lady . |
| 16 | I think you also mentioned that you play , you play a fair bit of football as well John |
| 17 | John Gorman says … he 's happy but in some ways disappointed that they 've had to wait so long for a win … it 's been hard week after week … but they 've shown great character and the fans have been very supportive |
| 18 | Success will depend very largely on the dancer 's own sense of timing and ability so to perform the gestures created that they convey meaning which makes sense within the context of the ballet . |
| 19 | She found that they vary independently of each other which suggests that at least one of the inversions is on one of the 8 metacentric pairs not involved in the numerical variability ( C. R. Bantock , personal communication ) . |
| 20 | I found that I put them back into their correct order with ease and , for the first and last time , achieved some distinction in the marking . |
| 21 | They found that you do not need drugs to make body cells light up . |
| 22 | and I found that you do not address an architect as Mr Jones , it must be Edward T Jones Esquire . |
| 23 | The the only job which I told Neil I do not expect him to take is working for waste disposal because he did that , this time last year and before he started he was full of big talk about you make a lot of money and you get a lot of tips at Christmas he found that you do not make a lot of money and you do not get generous tips at Christmas |
| 24 | Telecom Finland and Intertelecom , the telecommunications operator for the Russian Republic , reported that they have inaugurated a fibre optic cable enabling digital phone calls between Finland and St Petersburg , Interfax news agency announced . |
| 25 | Sec. reported that there have been about 2,000 visitors so far , mostly from outside Bishop 's Castle . |
| 26 | What follows are the most reliable facts which his early biographies ( John Aiken , 1792 and James Baldwin Brown , 1823 ) provided and which have subsequently been checked and accepted , as far as possible , from his own works and from later accounts . |
| 27 | and erm er that 's what I used if you want to borrow that you can . |
| 28 | You see Shakira and Michael Caine divorced and you say , ‘ Jesus Christ , he was talking about how happy they were three weeks ago ’ . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We regret in respect of the national anthems our undertaking has been violated and breached and we apologise unconditionally to anyone who has been offended by this breach ’ . |
| 30 | In the nineteenth century this all changed because opiates became much more widely and cheaply available so er babies were dosed with paregoric to stop them crying erm er and subsequently in the twentieth century that stopped and we do other things now . |