Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I finished my list of demands and took it to the Branch Office , where I received something of a hero 's welcome . |
| 2 | I then went to Coventry Belgrade for six months , where I did everything from Malcolm in Macbeth to the play Charlie 's Aunt . |
| 3 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 4 | It only came out a couple of times , and I could n't get the words apart the end where it sounded something like ‘ scores off the bar , F*CK CANTONA , Brian Deane , Brian Deane , Brian Deane ’ . |
| 5 | At Billy Graham 's 1961 Maine Road Stadium Crusade , low-level , multi-speaker systems meant that music from choir and instruments was travelling around the stadium electronically and then being ‘ chased ’ by the real sound , with the result that everyone heard everything at least twice . |
| 6 | Looking back on the elements I have enumerated — of change , internationalism and achievement — I do not find it so surprising that I chose an industrial career , although I knew nothing of all this when I joined ICI . |
| 7 | Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me . |
| 8 | It was only later that I dared to approach the nurse who did the dispensing and whisper in her ear that I knew nothing of Bach Remedies and would she please enlighten me . |
| 9 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 10 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 11 | Not that I knew anything about the area of course . |
| 12 | It was not that I was so self-blind that I saw nothing to be learnt . |
| 13 | It was n't until my second year that I told anything like the truth about my father . |
| 14 | And it , it was n't until many years later that I told anyone at all that 's , that 's the thing I was saying about bulimia , it 's very secret . |
| 15 | While he was out I had rewritten my will so that I left nothing to my ex . |
| 16 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 17 | Automatically I checked that I had plenty of fuel myself . |
| 18 | Assuming now that I was aware of one or two facts of which you , my dear , could not be , assuming that I had something of importance to communicate to Michel , would you still stick to your stubborn refusal ? ’ |
| 19 | Thank God he did n't know what I was sure of , that I felt everything as if through a mattress . |
| 20 | ‘ I was so wrapped up in my own performances that I needed someone with experience to help . |
| 21 | I felt that I needed someone to be with me all day and all night . |
| 22 | how d you know yeah , you 're telling me now that I missed something in eighty seven . |
| 23 | My disability makes this rather a slow process , so I had plenty of time . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 25 | I thought the best thing to do was spare Oliver 's blushes , so I murmured something about getting off to work . |
| 26 | The males started fighting , so I moved one to another tank , leaving two females with one male . |
| 27 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
| 28 | She had lean flanks and no tummy , and I could see from the way her breasts moved slightly when she walked that she wore nothing underneath her blouse ; I also had the feeling that she knew instantly that I knew . |
| 29 | And why did the impact of his presence provoke such an undeniable response in her when , earlier , she had felt that she had everything under control ? |
| 30 | Nicklaus , sensing that she had something on her mind , offered an encouraging , ‘ Do n't be afraid to speak up ! ’ |