Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
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	Dr Gilvear 's study found that most often the breaches in the embankments occurred where they overlaid old channels and were vulnerable to erosion .
9	Puzzled , I finally twigged where they had come from : the synthetic rock — supposedly safe — that I had decorated the tank with .
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	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 .
18	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 .
19	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 .
20	I proposed that we fish the same swim , which was large enough to accommodate both of us without the risk of crossed lines .
21	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 .
22	I proposed that I teach one woman what I knew so that she could teach the others after we got more machines .
23	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 .
24	Shouted that he knew I was inside .
25	I shouted that he did not know what he was talking about and held the telephone away from my face .
26	She was ‘ extremely upset ’ and shouted that she knew they would not believe her and left the workshop .
27	My conscience shouted that I had to inform .
28	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 .
29	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 ) .
30	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 .

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