Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She handed me a glass of cider , others accepted a small glass of a clear liquid that made them wince as they swallowed it . |
| 2 | What is the issue is that you expected me to stay and I did n't . |
| 3 | He asked me to dance but I said I could n't . |
| 4 | ‘ You remember you asked me to see if I could find out who it was that had sent that news item about Leila in to Al-Liwa . ’ |
| 5 | They asked me to see if you 'd like me to bring you some . ’ |
| 6 | I was tired but I kept on doing it and doing it ; they asked me to stop but I would n't . |
| 7 | He also became disenchanted with the amount of the correspondence ; his replies become shorter and shorter until , in September 1937 , his secretary wrote , " Mr Eliot also asked me to say that he is intending to write to you as soon as he has several consecutive free hours " . |
| 8 | But a mutual friend asked me to look after you . ’ |
| 9 | I know he asked me to stay but I wanted more for some reason . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ That Finn , Mauno Sarin , you asked me to handle when he arrived here , said Ed had been garrotted before someone threw him into the harbour , ’ Carver commented . |
| 11 | The fact that Lili seemed to take an interest in me led me to think that she had never been very close to my mother . |
| 12 | Turning to the volume 's introductory pages , I read some encouraging words that at once led me to hope that I might yet track down a few potential search areas that had not already received too much attention . |
| 13 | Mr. T. has also said in an affidavit that ‘ there has never been anything whatsoever in [ Miss T. 's ] actions which led me to believe that she wished to become a Jehovah 's Witness . ’ |
| 14 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
| 15 | And it got me thinking that there must be thousands of people up and down the country doing worthwhile things to protect our environment and wildlife who go unrecognised . |
| 16 | Well I got me shopping and it cost me forty summat one . |
| 17 | This made me shudder but I was brought back to my own worries when I heard Mum demand that she gave the lump of coal back . |
| 18 | At first the thought of going back to work made me shudder because I could n't stand the thought of leaving Danielle for an hour let alone a whole day , but once my husband Dave and I had left Danielle with a babysitter a couple of times , I realised that she would still be there when I came back and that she would be fine . |
| 19 | She interwove the Emmaus story into her talk , mentioning words such as ‘ companioning ’ , ‘ accompanying ’ — which made me realise that we are all here to help see one another to the heavenly Jerusalem : — the word meaning a place of peace — ‘ Jerushalom ’ . |
| 20 | This incident made me realise that our careful descriptions of the relationship between dialect and Standard English might be misread , and so in the final Report I insisted that we should reiterate many times that all pupils should learn , and if necessary be explicitly taught , Standard English . |
| 21 | It also made me realise that it was stupid to waste any part of what little time we all have left in silly sulks . |
| 22 | The survey also made me realise that it was not enough to have read about the early beginnings of any religion ; one needed to study it as a living faith and see the development of thought and interpretation . |
| 23 | ‘ My conversation with him this evening made me realise that he can be quite devious , and also that he has a rather cruel sense of humour . |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe it was seeing the Dawsons that made me realise that you ca n't lose something you never had . ’ |
| 25 | But enquiries from two missionary friends already recruited as Kachin advisers made me realise that there would be little opportunity to influence policy and relationships . |
| 26 | This question made me realise that there must be lots of new knitters out there with electronic of Duomatic 80 machines who do not know this technique . |
| 27 | As a final thought , my enjoyment of the longer essays made me regret that we still do not have an Oxford Companion to the Earth Sciences . |
| 28 | It was that inner voice that made me cringe as I lay sleepless on my lumpy mattress listening to the pogoing of the bedstead against the wall next door , where my co-tenants were pursuing their nightly quest for the elusive grail of Trish 's orgasm . |
| 29 | They wanted to get on but that made me swear if I ever got made Sergeant , I would never treat a man the way I was treated . |
| 30 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |