Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made one together , one each in step by step so we showed 'em what to do and then if you were n't sure you asked or if he was n't doing it right so they did it together technical erm situation . |
| 2 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 3 | No-one knew what anything cost or whether they were keeping within their budget . |
| 4 | Nick , by this time leading a glamorous social life in England with his girlfriend Arabella ( Ari ) Campbell MacNair-Wilson , daughter of a Conservative Member of Parliament , proposed that since nobody wanted a purely business party for journalists and other promotional appendages , each of the children should invite their own friends . |
| 5 | Lee gave him a shove , there was some pushing and tripping up , Kevin fell over into Dean 's lap and a woman at the other end of the car shouted that if they did n't behave themselves she 'd find someone at Goldhawk Road who would make them . |
| 6 | Although we were suitably impressed by the mere twelve-footer caught in Likangloe , the hunters promised that before we left they would take us into what was known locally as the " Death Cave " to find the really big pythons . |
| 7 | They promised that if their cathedral came through unscathed , they would dedicate a window in gratitude to the Royal Air Force . |
| 8 | Throckmorton also claimed that Sir Thomas More [ q.v. ] had once sent for him and promised that if he continued ‘ in the same way ’ and was not afraid , he would ‘ deserve great reward from God ’ . |
| 9 | Wright ( 1978 ) demonstrated that if we interpret the working class to mean manual workers who lack property in the means of production and are exploited ( have surplus value extracted from them ) , then only a fifth of the contemporary USA population fits the definition ! |
| 10 | in the local press joked that if he had done all the write-up said then he must have joined the police when he , was about 7 ! |
| 11 | The villagers often joked that if she met a German tank on the road to Berkeley , she would order it off the road and pass on as if nothing had happened . |
| 12 | You joked that as you kissed me deeply you could taste the tang of my lunchtime Cumberland sausage . |
| 13 | I 've moved that , I moved that so he did n't knock it over cos he were knocking it with his tail . |
| 14 | She very much doubted that when she got home , if she ever did , she would think it worth asking her mother . |
| 15 | There is the youth hostel and I know who built that cos he 's a friend of mine . |
| 16 | But things started to change when a friend mentioned that since I had lost a little weight whilst being away on a beach holiday with my boyfriend ( not deliberately , just through not eating much in the heat of Spain ) several people had said how I looked better . |
| 17 | And then , one day , out of the blue , Jean-Claude mentioned that if he had a piano he might take pupils . |
| 18 | Now there is one window , and I 'm glad you mentioned that because you just reminded me that , that , that you can get fi good fixed-rate loans at the moment . |
| 19 | I 'm glad you mentioned that cos it was given to me by the wife of the steeplechase handicap a very important man today cos for more than |
| 20 | But he stopped that when there was speculation that she would get a cabinet post if he won . |
| 21 | And one study looking at the experiences of black teenage mothers found that although they had begun using contraceptives as much as white girls , some had been persuaded by their boyfriends to stop using them . |
| 22 | Bowers et al. , for example , found that although their cognitive tasks affected manual performance the reverse was not the case . |
| 23 | When it was Spencer 's turn he found that although he had quite a few hours in his ‘ Fury , the Spit was a harder aeroplane to fly . |
| 24 | Fabia got out , then found that before she could say a word , Ven was escorting her inside the hotel and waiting with her while she collected her room key . |
| 25 | Danzig found that whether it liked it or not , its life was dominated by Poland . |
| 26 | For example taking out the forward looking infra-red , infra-red search and track , taking out the the M I D S , the multiple information distribution system and certain aspects of the er defensive aids , to see what impact that would have and we found that if we removed any one of those erm then we would either come down to parity against potential threat or possibly er inferiority and that was really the supporting evidence to retain the full capability . |
| 27 | She found that if she turned her back he was more likely to put food in his mouth . |
| 28 | In carefully structured interviews on the concept of God with three and four-year old children she found that if she began by asking them to distinguish between objects which were man-made and ones which were natural and then to speculate about origins in each case , a majority of the responses referred to the natural objects being made by God or an unknown power ( almost half and half responses on this ) . |
| 29 | In union negotiations , for example , I always found that if you had a heart to heart with the opposition , the single leader , you could probably gain something . |
| 30 | People I met never became friends , people never spoke in those days at all , in fact , I found that if you did try to speak they always ran away . |