Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suddenly understood , or thought I understood it all . |
| 2 | Or did they have their own trains ? |
| 3 | It was that very irrevocability that caused him to lift his own confidentiality order leading to OSF spilling the beans . |
| 4 | Somehow he had survived the attempted assassinations , the palace revolutions of his childhood , and was beginning to gather about him men who were willing to gamble their fortune with his , as well as others who were still not committed , and yet others who might , before he grew any stronger , take any chance that presented itself to push their own claims . |
| 5 | Weis , he was certain , had not forgotten that , nor had he mentioned his former Security rank without some underlying reason . |
| 6 | Mr Browning , with an expression on his face that said he guessed what this was about and it did not please him , nodded . |
| 7 | There was a stony determination there that set him examining his own resolution in a panic , in case there should be weaknesses in it he never suspected . |
| 8 | He did it in style , preparing the ground by a speech to the Legislative Assembly in which he paid tribute to Gandhi 's sincerity and asked him to recognize his own . |
| 9 | She had an idea and asked him to meet her that evening at a time which allowed her to see Shildon first . |
| 10 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
| 11 | He met Yves Saint Laurent , then at Dior , and helped him found his own fashion house . |
| 12 | He came and helped me lay it all in which was very nice . |
| 13 | Her feet felt sharp and heavy and round ; her toes like horn ) , and implored her to set her any task , she 'd undertake any ordeal , in return for restoring the bird to human shape and then setting him free . |
| 14 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 15 | A few hours later famed attorney to the stars Jerry Geisler was called in to defend Mitchum and warned him to say nothing more . |
| 16 | A sense of her own importance , which survived despite the sadnesses of her adult life and prompted her to tell her own story at such length , is summed up in her quotation of a relative 's comment on her autobiography , ‘ it was not writ as if a weak woman might have done it , but might have become a divine . ’ |
| 17 | Then we dressed him in a new outfit and persuaded him to reveal his own short beard instead of the fake white one . |
| 18 | And did you do it that way , you worked out the percentage and added it on ? |
| 19 | Yet you do not have to spend very long with them to appreciate how India , then as now , has turned them into what they are , how it has brutalized them and forced them to anaesthetize their own sensibilities . |
| 20 | His attitude was , however , coloured by a highly literary romanticism , and despite his efforts at identifying himself with a primitive culture , his outlook naturally remained that of a sophisticated European ; he borrowed freely from primitive sources but reinterpreted them to suit his own decorative and symbolic purposes . |
| 21 | Because had we had them any other way , you may have fallen into the dilemma as you 've suggested , that the shop stewards may have become part of the management . |