Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the next day , afore I 'd gotten fettled up — for indeed , miss , I 'd no heart to sweeping an' fettling , an' washing pots ; so I sat me down i' th' muck — who should come in but Maister Weston ! |
| 2 | She has recently completed the Science Foundation Course of the Open University , but has had to postpone further study in the sciences for the time being because changes in Modern Language teaching at the Sixth Form College where she works have consumed so much of her time and energy . |
| 3 | If that happened , or you started to get bogged down in an episode , you could always use the Doctor as a diversion . |
| 4 | If your horse is dehydrated , give the electrolytes for a couple of days and then only give them when the horse has worked hard or competed or you feel has sweated excessively . |
| 5 | The deceased was brought in by Anubis and , turning to each of the gods in turn , he or she denied having committed a particular sin . |
| 6 | At the moment it is the ultimate loser who pays the costs even if he or she happens to have won at first instance and in the Court of Appeal . |
| 7 | Consideration has so far been given only to family situations of legal , or what has become known as common-law marriage and to sexual elements of marriage in our indigenous culture . |
| 8 | No , but I have been stoically quoting your figures to defend Leeds against the baiting I 've had on the basis of the MOTD footage that everyone seems to have seen . |
| 9 | He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world . |
| 10 | does n't matter if I 'm not going to name any names but I mean I 've seen some people who it 's been suggested might stand two hoots of a flick of a finger whether someone of the sort that I 've seen mentioned , stood or not . |
| 11 | The purpose of general management is to try and ensure that in the city that we are getting the best value we can from the health resources that are in the city , and I have the authority now , and the responsibility to spend the budget that I 've had allocated from the Oxfordshire Health Authority , by Gerald Simon who 's the general manager . |
| 12 | White cotton sheets that I 'd had bought as a wedding present . |
| 13 | It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw . |
| 14 | In due course I will answer it for you , that and many other things that I know have quizzed you these past years . ’ |
| 15 | Most people that I know have got cars . |
| 16 | The reason why I joined the original class was that I had become intrigued by what I had heard and read about the Technique and I thought it might help prevent a second hip operation . |
| 17 | I told him that this bizarre gift had frightened me , made me feel vulnerable ; and that I had felt compelled to develop a magical system of my own to prevent my hyperactive visual memory from destroying me altogether . |
| 18 | To soften the blow I said it was only because I was held in such high esteem in the football world that I had to get rid of any player or , as in his case , friend , who showed any sign of being a no-hoper . |
| 19 | But erm because I 've been out there doing this and that 's that was part of my if you like to come in to do the recruitment side of it , er I had to experience and I 'm glad I did because there were one or two pre-judgements I had about advertising sales , as most people do , erm that I had to get wiped out of my erm my my system . |
| 20 | Instead , I had sent an open letter to John that I hoped to get printed in the Lebanese press . |
| 21 | ‘ I can think of one firm that I think had tried to pull the wool over our eyes for many years . |
| 22 | Yeah , it 's exactly that kind of experience that I think has got me thinking about what I was saying before you came , well before we were just doing the coffee , about the idea of actually starting to draw , well I was calling contracts , but probably it 's more better called agreements , about you know , the theatre will do this , we will do that and |
| 23 | Terrible thing to suggest and anybody who thinks that I think has got the wrong idea of this motion . |
| 24 | Erm you know I like Georgian and I like a lot of other architecture but that I think has got tremendous character . |
| 25 | As irony would have it , however , an examiner that I did have passed on to Rowse the information that , in the paper on Political Institutions , in which I did badly , I had vigorously attacked Rowse 's pamphlet on ‘ The Question of the House of Lords ’ . |
| 26 | It 's just that I seem to have got very bored with it . |
| 27 | The altitude is not very good for some of them : a box of old books that I found had congealed together with the damp and had I dared to try and pull one out from the row of upturned spines , to identify it , all the others would have risen too . |
| 28 | Sqn Ldr Leigh-Smith , that I believe had ditched , I found all his clobber in the flight locker swimming in salt water , and his aircrew sweater and all his other gear dyed yellow by the colouring that aircrew used to put in the water to help identify their position to searching aircraft . |
| 29 | Another application that I believe has started , but has n't got very far yet , is the use of these devices in cars . |
| 30 | I do not know a great deal about the Labour party 0898 line , but I know that the complaints that I have made for many years to the Minister and his predecessors have been not about Neil Kinnock but about the serious pornographic messages that I believe have contributed significantly to the crimes of violence against women that take place outside on the streets . |