Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking Harry gingerly with me I moved to the left , towards the wall , and with great relief found that there was indeed a walkway there at about the height of my waist . |
| 2 | And the car just went like this into the middle of the road slowly towards me I swerved onto the grass |
| 3 | Julia , this is Peter Suvarov , whom I knew during the war . ’ |
| 4 | For me the chief attractions of this programme were the two pieces by Hans Gàl , whom I knew towards the end of his long and fecund life ( he died in October 1987 , at the age of 97 ) . |
| 5 | Was that woman maybe Gaynor , whom I knew with the act of love ? |
| 6 | Then when she was talking to me someone knocked at the door then Auntie Linda was saying he wo n't bite you , he 's alright . |
| 7 | Yeah well as I say I I lived in the east end of London and that that 's how it was done there but I dare say that other places organized it |
| 8 | I I said to the chap he said did you have a good day , this little guy sitting next to me he answered yeah , good day yes did you see us ? |
| 9 | Erm Dick I I walked round the site on Friday with er Paul and S Paul and Stuart because Paul has been I do n't necessarily think this for you I do n't know why I said Dick then . |
| 10 | I I knew of the existence of this of this report went to the enquiry on this Tuesday by mistake , but I two |
| 11 | Well funnily enough I went down there last week , and I must admit I I came round the corner and there was one particular vehicle still does it . |
| 12 | But I did n't look , I did n't stop , it was raining so bad Thursday morning and windy that I I went to the market , I cut straight through and went up and Di went to get the paper then he went . |
| 13 | The point I I simply wanted to make which is why I I sat through the debate , erm is the honourable member for Edinburgh Central er in his er speech er which I I must say I did expect , called for stronger regulations , er we had the argument the other week about whether there should be statutory regulations or whether we should make er the er self regulation system that we have with financial services industries work . |
| 14 | So I I sat by the side of this other car for about five minutes you know ? |
| 15 | Erm I I missed at the beginning perhaps , that 's your present job still is it ? |
| 16 | I recognised one of the Commandos as someone I knew before the war . |
| 17 | It was a warming compliment , from someone who knew about the theatre . |
| 18 | Which did seem to point to someone who knew about the curry soup being prepared for supper . |
| 19 | However , as someone who identified with the student movements of the late 1960s , he was saddened to discover that present economic conditions meant ‘ normal ’ younger students were less willing , or able , to stand up for ‘ issues ’ . |
| 20 | As someone who came through the state school system and benefited from the investment that previous taxpayers spent on our schools , I believe that it is vital that today 's children and their parents get value for money from the present state school system . |
| 21 | This term was introduced to describe someone who indulged in the science of ‘ aerostation ’ ( lighter-than-air flight ) using an ‘ aerostatic ’ machine ( balloon ) . |
| 22 | Erm a few months back I was interviewing someone who lived in the area all their life and she said that the Sikh temple had distributed some E E C erm butter I think it was . |
| 23 | I think maybe there was someone who died in the war or something . |
| 24 | ‘ You 'd have to get hold of someone who worked on the project to tell you the details . |
| 25 | In the rural areas , every village had someone who acted as the Party boss and who , in collaboration with the Civil Guard , kept the local populace under observation . |
| 26 | She stared at the people in the pool , who had all seemed to respond to the whistle and were looking at someone who stood at the poolside , someone obscured from Rachel 's vision by the attendant 's tall chair . |
| 27 | Look what happened to that Indian chap of yours who wrote about the Koran . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ That means it 's probably someone you met on the plane . ’ |
| 29 | reminded of mistakes you made in the past — the sight/presence of someone you wronged in the past . |
| 30 | He caught a glimpse of the fair hair and saw that she was talking to someone he recognised as the drummer from the band ; the whole group was there , giving an impromptu concert on tin whistles to the tired hikers sleeping on their rucksacks undaunted by the howl and shriek of the space-invader machines on the other side , a cacophony of mechanical rage that deafened him together with the thin notes of a rebel song . |