Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was just some little part of me that carried me wide of him . |
| 2 | When he joined Ingard and wanted a number two he thought of me and asked me to come in with him . |
| 3 | After she had squeezed blood out of me and squirted it into little bottles , she said ‘ Thank you very much ’ — I thought ‘ That was n't so bad ’ and was halfway out the door when a nurse redirected me to a bed and rolled up my sleeve . |
| 4 | My right arm , he forced around in front of me and pressed it hard on to the table so that the fingers splayed out just in front of my face . |
| 5 | She grabbed hold of me and rammed my head into the crook of her arm and tried to force the bar into my mouth . |
| 6 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |
| 7 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |
| 8 | Then he stopped in front of me and put his face very close to mine . |
| 9 | Pylons strode down from it , past a settlement and a water-tower on the plain due south of me and lost themselves in the haze to the west . |
| 10 | My voice was taut with anger as I pulled it out of the shelf in front of me and opened it on my knees . |
| 11 | ‘ Valerie , ’ the editor of the Mail on Sunday said to me once , after I had filed a neat and convincing piece on an earthquake the ground had trembled beneath me in Rome , where Lou was playing with the London Symphonic and a wall had fallen on top of me and trapped me for two hours — ‘ you are the mistress of controlled reportage . |
| 12 | ‘ Andrew had his defences down as Waterworth came across in front of me and hit him in the mouth and knocked his head on the floor . |
| 13 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 14 | ‘ So it was one of them that kidnapped us ? ’ said Twoflower . |
| 15 | The crate-people took no notice of them but arranged their food to the left of them , erected a cross in front of them while their leader pulled an angled prop from behind the picture he was holding and positioned it in the pebbles to the right of the dedicated gathering . |
| 16 | The girl stacking the guide books looked at both of them but said nothing . |
| 17 | Nobody took much notice of them or expected them to start up any form of conversation , so Charles was surprised when Eric addressed him by name . |
| 18 | He stopped himself from looking at any of them and stuffed them into his waste-paper basket . |
| 19 | She had seen nothing of them and heard nothing except their horn in the recesses of the forest , a joyous and at the same time a melancholy sound which filled her captors with unease . |
| 20 | When the Major returned and discovered what they had done , he galloped off and , knowing the country , was able to overtake the thieves on the road to Ludlow , where he killed most of them and retrieved his property . |
| 21 | The senator smiled broadly at all of them and lifted his hand towards the Frenchman , gesturing for him to lead the way . |
| 22 | He placed a little white enamel cup before each of them and filled it with strong black tea . |
| 23 | He had n't eaten all day , so he opened one of them and cooked it up . |
| 24 | Silver waved the map in front of them and told them they were stupid . |
| 25 | I smiled at both of them and told his friend my clothes suited him . |
| 26 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 27 | It was at that moment their quarry became aware of them and increased his own speed sharply , sprinting flat out across a small clearing . |
| 28 | She stood behind one of them and rested her hand against its curved back . |
| 29 | The wind and the dust were what Crossman wanted to know about ; and he went in search of them and found them , in Coventry , in the Commons and in the Cabinet . |
| 30 | ‘ On the occasion the Mayor was driving through the town with another prominent local man when a ‘ super sports ’ car without warning shot in front of them and scraped their bonnet . |