Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where she met where she met him then ? |
| 2 | The driver gunned the motor but that only threw off sprays of fine snow , and the motor howled until I thought it would burst . |
| 3 | Include also those items which you wanted to have in the past but dismissed because you thought you could not have them or simply forgot about them . |
| 4 | The older man 's bushy grey brows rose as he shot her a penetrating glance . |
| 5 | ‘ Come on , lazybones , it 's nearly dinner-time , ’ Otley scolded when he brought me some tea up . |
| 6 | He tried a grin , but winced as it hurt him . |
| 7 | One of his hands closing over the slender curve of her hip made her lower body stir involuntarily , the increasing urgency of the gyrating movement explicit , both statement and summons , and Maria heard the harsh breath he drew as he absorbed it . |
| 8 | and I phoned one night late and , it was late and I phoned for I wanted her to come home , and I was it was quarter to twelve and said she 's not home yet . |
| 9 | Helping herself to what looked like a gin and tonic — and was a very strong one , she found when she tasted it — as well as a tiny chicken and mushroom vol-au-vent , she was about to make a beeline for an unoccupied chair in the corner when a stranger spoke beside her . |
| 10 | Rachel 's pulses thundered as she allowed him to lead her to the dance-floor beneath the flashing lights . |
| 11 | So if erm if if you yeah yes E T E T phoned when what do you want ? |
| 12 | But we all change , and I changed when I saw you . |
| 13 | But Uncle Philip bathed in the tub as often as once or twice a week ; he seemed to exercise some occult authority over the geyser , for it never erupted when he lit it . |
| 14 | Lawler exclaimed when he saw her . |
| 15 | JH : Something that Frans Brüggen mentioned when I met him recently [ see JH 's interview , CDR 9/91 — Ed. ] was the still prevalent post-Paganini reversal of performing interest , whereby the difficult appears effortless , and the facile of monumental significance . |
| 16 | They stopped when they saw him , then dived right and left , but at fifty yards the rifle was lethal and Sharpe saw his bullet lift a man clean off the ground . |
| 17 | She stopped when she saw me , wound the window down . |
| 18 | He stopped when he saw them and asked if they wanted to come with him . |
| 19 | He came after me , but he stopped when he saw me go inside ( as I instinctively knew he would — the only safe place from him was down here ) . |
| 20 | Stapleton stopped when he saw us , and then walked forward again . |
| 21 | Ruth 's fingers trembled as she obeyed him . |
| 22 | Her voice trembled as she said it . |
| 23 | When , in the last days of November , a telegram arrived she knew what it must contain and trembled as she held it in her hand . |
| 24 | Her whole body trembled as he took her in his arms . |
| 25 | My heart sank when I heard him say he was in full support of the government 's policy . |
| 26 | As soon as he got out and about he was going round the house looking for you and then he just stood at the bottom of the stairs and banged until I took him upstairs and he could have a look round up there and then he realized you were n't there |
| 27 | ‘ I came because I considered it to be my duty , ’ he informed her quietly . |
| 28 | Until he 'd before he took me to hospital ! |
| 29 | No it , we took it to this bloke and I do n't know what he 's done with it because it played before we took it and when he , he said it were n't worth doing and when we brought it back it wo n't even roll now even play now will it ? |
| 30 | I hated rugby but I always played when they wanted me to because I was really fast . |