Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With me I wanted everything to be more natural . |
| 2 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
| 3 | As far as I was concerned , men and boys constituted a separate species , with whom I had nothing in common , and the last thing I wanted to do ( had I given the matter any thought ) was to arouse their interest , which I feared might be predatory . |
| 4 | Once I felt comfortable in them I wore them on a couple of long section of the Cotswold Way and they fared well . |
| 5 | Erm Geoff I I met him in Phillips , I went to , hang on ! |
| 6 | Erm , I I heard something over the weekend , that that erm , mentioned er an American drug company , that has come up with whatever drug and it 's moved from being a million pound concern , into a multi-million pound concern , because of these discoveries , |
| 7 | Cos I I got one off teletext erm er it must have been nineteen ninety now for Tenerife four star hotel , seven days , East Midlands Airport for one hundred and fifteen pounds half board er er the following day which was fantastic . |
| 8 | No , I I got plenty of time , I 'm not in a hurry . |
| 9 | Cos I I got plenty of time . |
| 10 | So naturally I had to get it with and it was heavier th I do n't know how much it weighed , I I I got it by the way , in my barn in farm in Indiana , one of the last relics of Brothers . |
| 11 | I I I I told you to . |
| 12 | I I left it with Stuart to arrange all that but maybe he 's got the hire from Friday to Friday . |
| 13 | Well I I saw them in Mill , but I did n't know which size , size you need actually I saw some in Mill . |
| 14 | Yeah , well I , I I saw it in the paper . |
| 15 | I I regarded him as a a professional , highly trained officer er confidence in his judgement . |
| 16 | That 's what I he did agree to it when I I mentioned it to him but I just ha I want to check if he 's doing one tomorrow , cos if he 's doing one tomorrow it might be tomorrow morning so I 'll have |
| 17 | So from there I I mentioned it to our provincial who 's the i the one who 's in charge of us all in this er area . |
| 18 | Yeah I I did it with Pauline , she she actually did n't mind doing it at one point before Christmas but it has n't come about and as she said , wo n't change it , it wo n't happen . |
| 19 | I I I recorded it in a closed classroom during the lunch-time playtime |
| 20 | I shall die with that feeling of guilt , that it was I who robbed him of life . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It was I who carried you to your bed . |
| 22 | I was conscious , too , of his fine , tanned hand holding the pencil , and of the occasional play of warm breath from his mouth , wholesome as home-baked bread , though he was a heavy smoker — much heavier than I. ft was I who introduced him to the Bisontes brand , a Spanish version of Lucky Strike , with a similar ‘ toasted ’ flavour . |
| 23 | So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ . |
| 24 | The reason is that a great many " inventions " would not be obvious to a layman but would be to someone who knew something of the technology involved . |
| 25 | Who , anyway , would want to read an autobiography of someone who saw himself as God 's gift to aviation and the RAF in particular ? |
| 26 | I wanted to pick someone who saw herself as part of the community and yet stood up for her rights . |
| 27 | Also , people have been saying to me , ‘ My brother 's girlfriend 's aunt says that she spoke to someone who saw you on ‘ News at Ten ’ the other day ! ’ |
| 28 | A playwright once responded to someone who asked him about the message of his play that when he wanted to send messages he did so by telegram . |
| 29 | Everything about him spelt self-assurance , the confidence of someone who had nothing at all to prove to the world . |
| 30 | That someone who had nothing at all to do with her life should have had a hand in removing her father 's last trace in her life infuriated her . |