Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One year prior to this she consulted me because of night sweats and oedema . |
| 2 | The grey and stormy skies made them if anything greener . |
| 3 | Juliet smelled them as soon as she was inside the house . |
| 4 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 5 | The day after those comments , Robert Dole , the Republican leader in the Senate , branded them as ‘ incredible ’ . |
| 6 | Next came a terrace of three three-storey houses , in the first lived the Salisburys , the name always amused me when I was small . |
| 7 | Anselm met them as best he could as they arose , and we may trace them step by step , less to recall the stages in an archbishop 's promotion , than to understand the state of mind in which Anselm progressed from one stage to the next . |
| 8 | Manningham , a burly fifty-year-old with an aggressive manner and a paunch , met them as they descended the far side of the bridge . |
| 9 | I met them because I 'm in love with Gillian . |
| 10 | ‘ And if I met them when I was alone ? ’ |
| 11 | And they spurred forward to pursue and take him , no doubt believing it a happy chance for them , and the Lord Owen caused his horse to appear to drop lame , and so encouraged and led them until they were spread all along the field in open order , within close range of the bowmen in the woods . |
| 12 | Through an emissary , they threatened that if they had to withdraw — which was now inevitable — and the partisans attacked them as they retreated , the cities of Bologna , Reggio Emilia , Parma and Piacenza would be destroyed . |
| 13 | As he explains in the ‘ Epistle to the Reader ’ , he began it after a discussion in which it occurred to him and his friends that they might get further with the problems which concerned them if they were first to ‘ examine our own abilities , and see , what objects our understandings were , or were not fitted to deal with ’ . |
| 14 | Nevil choked me until I almost passed out , then he lifted me out of the driver 's seat and bundled me into the back of Armstrong , hitting me on the back of the neck with what could have been an anvil but was probably his fist . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , the old man battered me when I was a kid , ’ Frank said , and laughed again . |
| 16 | She jumped round the room with a newspaper club and splattered them when they settled . |
| 17 | According to Mr. Mahmoud , he admitted them because they pretended to have come on behalf of the insurers . |
| 18 | The Roots , a drawing done at about the same time as Sorrow , was conceived quite deliberately as a companion piece , He paired them because he was trying to say the same thing in both . |
| 19 | She summoned the Protestant preachers to come to Stirling on 10 May , and outlawed them when they refused . |
| 20 | A sort of bovine preoccupation enveloped me when Rebecca was on the way . |
| 21 | A sudden misery enveloped me as I drove over to the gate leading into the field . |
| 22 | She asked me whether I 'd taken the cat to the vet , and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 23 | One interviewer asked me whether the riot was not a cry for help by the rioters . |
| 24 | She asked me whether I could help her to remember the events of that dreadful night . |
| 25 | She had read about the benefits of regression , and asked me whether she could go back to her childhood and try to uncover any other hidden details which might be relevant . |
| 26 | About midday on 29th. the Navy in Malta suddenly asked me whether I could search along the Greek coast for the remnants of the Italian Fleet which was believed to be escaping northwards . |
| 27 | ‘ He asked me whether I wanted to go to Borners . |
| 28 | Perhaps he noticed , for he stopped and asked me whether Jean-Claude ever spoke of Montaine . |
| 29 | Pleadingly , he asked me whether I could think of anything . |
| 30 | You asked me whether I thought we could trust the boy . |