Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Where she met where she met him then ? |
| 3 | a similar point arose where it proposed to serve the writ and an Anton Piller order out of the jurisdiction on a Belgian company . |
| 4 | A chilly breeze was moving and several of them trembled where they sat . |
| 5 | I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall . |
| 6 | He never found where she hid her food . |
| 7 | Dr Gilvear 's study found that most often the breaches in the embankments occurred where they overlaid old channels and were vulnerable to erosion . |
| 8 | Puzzled , I finally twigged where they had come from : the synthetic rock — supposedly safe — that I had decorated the tank with . |
| 9 | That occurred although it took up a large slice of their already-depleted income , and they also ran the risk of getting lung cancer and other smoking related diseases , and placed the health of their children in jeopardy . |
| 10 | I managed four , but they tasted like they 'd been pickled in piss . ’ |
| 11 | Then they moved to Chelmsford by foot , where they stopped until they embarked for France on 30 March 1915 , part of the 145th Infantry Brigade of the 48th Division . |
| 12 | Heating the water , well it heated if you 'd the fire on it heated the water and then you 'd take a couple of buckets out into the bath , plug a couple of buckets in . |
| 13 | The island was spread in front of me , outrigger canoes paddling towards us from the silver beaches lined with tall , bending palm trees and feathery casuarinas , while , behind , the green volcanic mountains rose until they seemed to meet the sky . |
| 14 | and erm er that 's what I used if you want to borrow that you can . |
| 15 | They all laughed and joked until they got to Holborn . |
| 16 | To qualify as a model foster parent you had to be at the wealthier level of the middle class , with an already established family ; it helped if you lived in the country ( away from urban enticements ) , spoke a little German , and could tolerate moody children who suffered bouts of depression and were inclined to long silences . |
| 17 | It helped if you got caught to know as little as possible . |
| 18 | If it still remains uncomfortable , then we , then we need to have a closer look and we may need to get the eye specialist involved if it 's refused to settle down . |
| 19 | You do seem to enjoy watching nude bathers , so do n't you think it would be much better for everyone involved if you went somewhere where they did n't mind being watched ? ’ |
| 20 | On reflection , though , she doubted if she 'd got enough crocks or cutlery and ‘ what was they going ter sit on ? ’ |
| 21 | I doubted if he 'd heard . |
| 22 | No-one moved until she had quite satisfied herself . |
| 23 | this is what we found cos I said , oh |
| 24 | The driver gunned the motor but that only threw off sprays of fine snow , and the motor howled until I thought it would burst . |
| 25 | before people twigged if you like , that what had actually happened amounted to hardly anything more than a change of sort of managerial personnel . |
| 26 | video , I 'm saying that 's to replace the video you used cos you record programmes for Martin |
| 27 | But it 's not as hard as one that we tried cos we wanted a firm one , she wanted something firm but nice and high . |
| 28 | They did not , of course , mention that they fled because they knew the alternative would have been even less attractive , since at that time Philby was still in the West , having been publicly exonerated by Harold Macmillan . |
| 29 | One swam because one had to . |
| 30 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |