Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half Moon Crescent , he had repeated and repeated to himself as he 'd walked that night . |
| 2 | ‘ I just show the prisoners a picture of an aborted baby and I say to them if I had done that to a baby I deserve to be here , but what I am trying to do is prevent it happening . ’ |
| 3 | I think that it would place great strain not only on the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff but on the budget of the Public Accounts Commission itself if it had to authorise such expenditure . |
| 4 | He said I would have asked you if I had had any trying to find trousers awake . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , so would you if you 'd spent all night in them tunnels ! — How did you know I was in there , anyway ? ’ |
| 6 | And how old were you when you started doing that ? |
| 7 | She was just someone vaguely in the background of his life to whom he was courtesy itself when they did encounter each other . |
| 8 | I feel it was an enormous privilege to have known them because they made work such fun . |
| 9 | Robert , aged 18 , was referred to me because he had smashed several windows in a local church . |
| 10 | What , you 've only had them since you started taking those tablets ? |
| 11 | Perhaps he ceased to be useful to her once she 'd had some success in England — I do n't know . |
| 12 | The content of what he said might have chilled her if she had harboured any desire to stay longer — which , she told herself fiercely , she most definitely did not . |
| 13 | Probably he made some useful friends in Bremen ; Mina said he was always asking her if she 'd heard any interesting gossip at her musical soirées . |
| 14 | ‘ She would have taken the cat with her if she 'd done that . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I was so impressed I gave her a tape with a backing track on it the band had done , and asked her if she wanted to do some work on it . |
| 16 | Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this . |
| 17 | But she kept him until he had explained some more . |
| 18 | Bardely intercepted him before he had gone many yards … |
| 19 | Although his cold manner made it difficult for me to talk to him , I had to ask him whether he had found any employment for me . |
| 20 | It was probably the only way he could get one , she thought waspishly ; the law of averages no doubt decreed that one at least would believe him , and how on earth could he want her when he 'd said all those terrible things to her ? |
| 21 | There had been no one there for her when she had made that terrible discovery . |
| 22 | ‘ But there must be a point … when you 've hosed off all the muck and the glaze and the bits of overpainting and your musks of Araby have done their work and you get to the point when you know that what you see before you is what the chap would have seen before him when he stopped painting all those centuries ago . |
| 23 | Their friends told them they were crazy , it sold for a nickel and nobody , they discovered , had the curiosity to buy it although it did make all the local Greenwich Village news-stands . |
| 24 | Every time she had protested that she could ride alone and was not fit to be near anyone until she 'd had several baths he had laid his hand over her mouth and told her to hush . |
| 25 | Monica will be alright she know 's what she 's doing , it 's just whether she has the time to do it , she would liked it if we had done this before Christmas , so that while you were away John |
| 26 | The new Milanese opera , Lucio Silla ( another opera seria ) had been partly written during the summer in Salzburg , but Mozart could not complete it until he had heard each of the principal soloists , and was able to adjust his arias and recitatives to suit individual voices . |
| 27 | She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession . |
| 28 | Her reply was that she never cried and moreover had never talked about it since it had happened all those years ago . |
| 29 | Did you wear it when you went to see that couple ? |
| 30 | She would open them after she had made some coffee . |