Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Kilmuir added that he had no sort of disciplinary jurisdiction over Her Majesty 's judges , each of whom , if asked to broadcast , would have to decide for himself whether he considered it compatible with his office to accept . |
| 2 | Analysing the moral status of a whole society calls for clear thinking and a certain coolness of mind , elements conspicuously absent from most of the pronouncements of public figures in recent weeks , aptly if unintentionally encapsulated by the Prime Minister himself when he exhorted us all to try to understand less . |
| 3 | Cos I did erm I was thinking we 're going through this fairly quickly are they really taking it in so I s we stopped after I re reached a certain point and I spent the next sort of half an hour or so just asking them questions and some of the things they got right , some they got wrong so I went back over them until we got it right so sort of help to confirm things . |
| 4 | ‘ Papa said he would beat me if I gave you any more tickets . |
| 5 | Of course , I 've always loved her but I 'd no idea she felt the same way about me until she told me this afternoon . |
| 6 | PMT ( interest , term , -principal ) works out what someone would pay you if you lent them principal and this is positive . |
| 7 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 8 | LADY DAVERS : Why , Pamela , I did indeed pity you while I thought you innocent and when my brother seized you and brought you down hither without your consent . |
| 9 | She did n't mention anything to you when she phoned you last week that she got a letter from me ? |
| 10 | You free yourself of the hold others had over you when you allowed them this control over your life . |
| 11 | So if we If I gave you this to integrate erm what do you think of that ? |
| 12 | Yeah but just try that one cos I told you that |
| 13 | He found that Turner by 1833 was painting trees unknown to any botanist ; probably he painted them because he saw them that way ; and indeed with the help of a lens the lecturer could turn a picture of a common tree into a Turner tree for the audience to see for themselves . |
| 14 | They liked me because I told them dirty jokes , made good after-dinner speeches , did a reasonable job for them in terms of links with government and that kind of thing , and had a bit of class . |
| 15 | If she told him once she told him two dozen times that he was quite the perfect host , and that he was n't to take this personally , but she wanted to be back in her own house , her own city , where she would feel most protected from the assassin . |
| 16 | Aye , she were washing them or summat and he were annoying her so she threw them all . |
| 17 | Defender Gary Pallister said : ‘ It 's a bolt from the blue , I 'd never have guessed we were signing him if you gave me 300 goes . |
| 18 | I would n't tell him until he assured me three times that I had the job . |
| 19 | When Geoffrey son of Sarah of Empingham resisted this illegal demand , the forester raised the hue and cry upon him , and distrained him until he gave him two shillings and found sureties for appearing at the attachment court . |
| 20 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 21 | He said that he had taken into account the views of local authorities put to him since he met them last year , he might have taken in to account of course , we did n't accept any of the er er observations . |
| 22 | The Master of Magdalene asked him whether he found it uncomfortable to wear the received garments of a bishop . |
| 23 | He had n't said a great deal , content to look at her as she told him all about life in the convent and of the strange foibles of some of her companions . |
| 24 | His wife and mother beamed at him as he kissed them all in turn . |
| 25 | They exchanged glances and crowded behind him as he pushed it open . |
| 26 | More like a volcano erupting than a steam engine blowing its top , Nick always said , but he was touchy about it because it made him sick the first time . |
| 27 | And you , Opal , you will exult in it because you made it possible . |
| 28 | He seemed so fiercely shut up in himself that Ruth was afraid people would start seriously meaning it when they called him mad . |
| 29 | I knew it when she met you that first time you came to my place . ’ |
| 30 | Just for a moment Michele looked disconcerted , then said easily , ‘ Signor Candiano must have mentioned it when I saw him this afternoon . ’ |