Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He assumed , however , that rather than evolving over the ages to suit their environment , they had been ‘ ready-made ’ by God to the perfect design needed for where He placed them . |
| 2 | But with a brother and sister whom she must look after for they had nothing left but her . |
| 3 | ‘ It was at that place I told you about that I knew him , ’ he said to Lili . |
| 4 | This is particularly noticeable in Between ; indeed she herself says ‘ it 's really with Between that I discovered what I could do with language ’ ( 1989e:83 ) . |
| 5 | He was n't just pontificating , he was n't just starting out things he thought about , he and and , ideas that had come into his head , he spoke as one who had authority and because of that they heard him . |
| 6 | So you 'd say that as a b er as a result of that it did it did er so it did When you say it served its purpose , it did improve the image ? |
| 7 | You know when I when I first thought of that I thought you know I 'd let us keep it . |
| 8 | And she had one or two hires including higher art and then somebody said oh that would be good for the P R department is looking for staff so she now is doing a superb job running a marketing operation , editing an internal newspaper it all herself and erm all of that I taught her , now I want to move her on to the stage where she can get professional recognition for this , now that is what I call an absolute beginner |
| 9 | I felt he maintained a distance and because of that I found him more difficult to approach than Dalglish if there was anything I needed to discuss . |
| 10 | I phoned up this week just to say I 'm getting on with it and they sort of like she said she 'd |
| 11 | and then that 's a fiver , and then you 've got the worry of and you got you got to go shops because when it 's so hot things go stale you 've got to have |
| 12 | And he , and I remember ah , er er , I mean I was only , well I was sort of and he had his feet up on the table , he was smoking a cigarette and he , and he had a laid back attitude . |
| 13 | But it could also mean that erm they were getti that it they had been successful in getting taxation from what they 'd done since the beginning of cos they felt they could go even further . |
| 14 | But I 'm afraid of marriage because I 'm afraid someone might want me because of who I am instead of because they loved me . |
| 15 | Hank came in and did a lot of recordings , which I was glad of because it gave me some relief . |
| 16 | As she pulled it behind her , reckless of whether she slammed it or not , she could hear her mother 's voice again . |
| 17 | It was a question of whether he took one , two or three minutes to dispatch rivals into a coma . |
| 18 | An owner now obtained ( in theory at least ) the same price for his land irrespective of whether he sold it to a private individual or to a public authority . |
| 19 | Anyway , he gave them a few examples of the jobs he was looking for and they told him he was unqualified . |
| 20 | There were very few human beings I cared for and I cared nothing for cactuses . |
| 21 | Like this , you see looking for and I said she 's gone on a bike ride ! |
| 22 | My mum come up to see me and asked me what the bandage was for and I told her I 'd burnt myself . |
| 23 | I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed . |
| 24 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 25 | and I thought it was hysterical , it was the fact that you noticed when you first came here about if somebody liked you they always greeted you by swearing at you |
| 26 | How about if we had one shared out between three people have a guess at what it would look like the fraction . |
| 27 | How about if we shared it out between a tenth of us . |
| 28 | How about if someone said something ? |
| 29 | The girls screamed ; some gritted their teeth , others stayed cool as if nothing worried them . |
| 30 | We studied the view as if we owned it ; |