Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | French maintained that he thought that the safety catch was on and that he had been struck a blow on the back of the head which had caused him to stagger and pull the trigger . |
| 2 | To my great surprise and that of everyone else , I found that it meant that black holes are not completely black . |
| 3 | Several subjects reported that they felt that they would be able to give far more information if they were permitted to recall the junctions in the order in which they had been driven . |
| 4 | Devraux was staring towards the front flaps as she entered and he froze when he saw her . |
| 5 | now this is an old rumour and er , he was an officer , er I think in the RAF and he had erm an accident his plane crashed and he died and this is why she dresses in military uniform all the time sort , you know she went a little bit deranged |
| 6 | Because from the age of seventeen to twenty nine I worked on building sites , and that got boring so I changed and I changed and became a policeman , and I ca became a policeman when I was twenty nine and a half and it 's , I 've enjoyed it ever since cos every day is interesting , every day is different , every day is unusual . |
| 7 | He began it , but then he stopped because he decided that it was n't an interesting enough story . |
| 8 | ‘ No doubt there was some cross or ornament they found when they robbed that poor creature , and Adolph had made a fantasy out of it . |
| 9 | For example , I can say that Jones is behaving just like Smith did , and we now know that Smith behaved as he did because he had feelings of being persecuted , so it is possible that Jones has feelings of being persecuted , too . |
| 10 | We had heard that the paths ahead were precarious and exposed , but my heart sank when I noticed that even the horses were being blindfolded . |
| 11 | How we rejoiced as we struggled and panted ! |
| 12 | ‘ How we rejoiced as we struggled and panted — |
| 13 | Er , recommended that you quit and get rid of it . |
| 14 | Before another reading of this poem on the same visit , he announced that it began where he had begun , and that it ended where he and his wife hoped to end — in the parish church of a Somerset village ; he could see now the pattern of his life completed . |
| 15 | The most constructive move was when Linda Bellos stood up and announced that she thought that the group was a complete waste of time unless it had power , and to have power it would have to be a Council Committee with the right to interfere in all other committees . |
| 16 | When the barrister made his remark he was not aware that no such document existed , although he believed that it did because of what his client had said in evidence . |
| 17 | But she added that she understood that AT&T was interested in setting up a competitor to Telecom Eireann . |
| 18 | When er when the time came that you decided that er y you and your tape recorders whatever , had to part company , how do you how would you go about trying to get the best price for them ? |
| 19 | She noticed that he walked as though he had pebbles in his shoes . |
| 20 | And , it 's not a text but perhaps a verse that we could use as a , as a springboard is verse twenty seven , and it says at this point his disciples came and they marvelled that he had been speaking with a woman ! |
| 21 | And there would be a funeral when the boat came and I mean when the boat came is just when the boat came . |
| 22 | And the following visit he made here he brought with him Miss Virginia she was one of the personnel at Stepney Causeway she was the Miss Virginia , the niece of the line and she came and she said that she would help in erm doing some organisation and and giving us some insight as to what we had to do , because we had never run a fete in all our lives ! |
| 23 | ‘ Well , I went to clinics , I went to specialists , they poked and they peered and they prodded , they took X-rays , they did tests , I do n't know what they did n't do , and they all said the same thing . |
| 24 | So when we went to Stylus Records and Telstar you know they were more than than happy to have because they seemed but I think that at at the start had we been looking for somebody here to take us over probably it would never have happened . |
| 25 | She stood in front of the mirror and in front of her mother , and she suffered because she knew that there was no escape ; the reasons why the dress would not do were reasons which could never be communicated . |
| 26 | Mm cos I found I 'd try , well the works had er , erm table and I , I remember the last time I played before I left and I said come on , I 'll |
| 27 | She stirred as they entered and gave a creaking groan as she began to waken . |
| 28 | Cranston roared as he rose and went to fetch the boots standing in the comer . |
| 29 | Areas are subtracted or added as they leave or come into view . |
| 30 | I closed my eyes and watched the sheets of warm colour that came as I relaxed or increased the tension of the lids . |