Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [conj] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Mhm , oh I see , he sold them and them they were shipped across .
2 John told me that he himself never saw the work performed on stage , being busy elsewhere by the time it went on .
3 If she told him that something he had painted worked , he believed it — at least at the beginning of their marriage .
4 God told him that everything he had made was good , and again invited him to eat …
5 He told him that anybody who thought there was no harm in pornographic videos , was completely wrong .
6 Elizabeth and I turned on him severely , and told him that someone who was both old and a distinguished writer was not to be bothered with such things .
7 I do n't know whether you told him but he himself
8 He certainly talked about such things , defended them against some of their critics ; but his business , what engrossed him and what he knew well , was the school .
9 I told her that what she said was a load of bollocks , and one thing led to another and my mum told me she was n't allowing me to take Natasha with me .
10 I hold another creed , which no one ever taught me and which I seldom mention , but in which I delight and to which I cling , for it extends hope to all , it makes eternity a rest a mighty home , not a terror and an abyss .
11 I adored them and they me .
12 Already , at the age of nineteen , he was experiencing the morbidity which occasionally harassed him and which he described sixteen years later in a chapter on the ‘ character ’ of Keats :
13 Randy loved himself and everything he stood for .
14 But what we do , because we are the people we are , , and er , it happens every time , we 've got salesmen , and I 'm talking about salesmen , who will get over to see somebody and get something signed up , they called you or whatever it was ,
15 She worried about Jane , but comforted herself that anything her own daughter believed in must a priori be acceptable .
16 No but this one must of just gone really quick , whether the wind frightened him cos it there was a lot , the fence was banging .
17 For like such a amateur er company to do , but people loved it because they they understood everything that was going on .
18 We 've it , researched it and what we 've found is that there is a niche for the best of British .
19 And whether he started it and what he said , like he was
20 I mean if he saw me or anybody who he knew , hello young that sort of thing like , you know .
21 The same thing took place at St John 's Wood and now he thought he knew who and what they were .
22 He thought of the future which no longer contained him but which he could still control .
23 No , whoever caught him hunting for more knew that there was more there to be found — knew it because he himself had come out as soon as he dared , to remove whatever was there to a place of greater safety .
24 Then you come along , and you tell me not only who made it but what his name was , how many eggs he laid and the colour of his tentacles .
25 Cos er erm remember that time when I called him fadge and I pegged it and he he went .
26 They must be made to understand that they are not above the law and that they are answerable to the people who elected them and whom they are supposed to represent .
27 Williams presented himself as someone whose entire life had been blighted by the curse of British colonialism ; even at Oxford , was he was not denied a fellowship because of his colour ?
28 It was the Kent countryside that inspired him and which he wanted to be a part of .
29 Er we only probably did it when ourselves we got venison beforehand on the last shooting and to keep .
30 Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways .
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