Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come on , lazybones , it 's nearly dinner-time , ’ Otley scolded when he brought me some tea up . |
| 2 | Later I realised that what made me uncomfortable was not that they looked like the inmates of those cattle trucks . |
| 3 | After hearing the evidence the justices announced that they found him guilty , but on hearing of his previous convictions they decided that they would not deal with the case and committed him for trial to quarter sessions . |
| 4 | Sarella noticed that he put it all in the past tense . |
| 5 | Brombach confesses he gulped when he found it necessary in 1983 to invest 45 million marks to make a quantum leap to a capacity of a million hectolitres , at a new brewery on the edge of town . |
| 6 | ‘ We met and he showed me some excellent photos he had taken at the crash site . |
| 7 | Apple Computer Inc chief John Sculley reckons it is essential for the head of a computer company to have a clear grasp of technological directions and acknowledged that it took him several years before he felt confident to take strategic decisions . |
| 8 | Two-thirds of a random sample of 54 of those with tinnitus showed that they found it disturbing , 72 per cent experienced it continuously , 18.5 per cent frequently and only 9.25 per cent occasionally . |
| 9 | ‘ She indicated that she found him overbearing . |
| 10 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 11 | He must have liked the sound it made because he gave it another couple for luck ; my courage rising , too , I gave it two more . |
| 12 | When he realized what he had done he panicked and she had it all out of him . |
| 13 | Now , having met Madeleine again , he knew that he loved them both ! |
| 14 | They were the earliest type of school text book erm which came in in about fourteen fifty , er to teach your A B C which you just copied and copied and copied until you got it right . |
| 15 | She sobbed and he held her close to him . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought if you gave me all the details … ’ |
| 17 | Trying to beat the tiredness and the sapping warmth of the room , and his eyes blinked when he wished them clear . |
| 18 | I do n't know what view of these events my uncles took as we woke them early and followed them around as faithfully as any spaniel — maybe that was why they often nipped off to the pub in the evenings . |
| 19 | Myra sobbed as she told me that , although many men were attracted to her — and she to them — as soon as the relationship reached the stage of even the most innocent physical contact , such as a gentle kiss or even holding hands , something in her forced her to draw back and run away from the situation . |
| 20 | Did you see what he did when we passed him first ? |
| 21 | And apart from the garden that you said that you made it lovely while you were there , what other things did you do to make it look like a home ? |
| 22 | ‘ By God , Sally-Anne , your mother said that I spoiled you rotten , and I think that she 's right . |
| 23 | He said that he thought it wrong to encourage a military spirit , and that it was contrary to the ideals of disarmament . |
| 24 | Bromley Challener said that he found it inconceivable , nay incomprehensible that so many local people could stand by and watch two courageous policemen set upon by rogues , and do nothing while these same officers received such grievous wounds that one had since died and the other would be incapacitated for months to come . |
| 25 | I says you put it there , I said cos you used it last ! |
| 26 | and when we were having this argument on Wednesday he said I said we what what was your reason then for not paying me for that when I was genuinely sick and he said er oh he said because I gave you such a good bonus last week , I said what was that then , he said erm twenty five pounds , I said no you did n't ! |
| 27 | Oliver said when I told him this story rather hesitatingly , though I expect my nerves were to do with talking about Gillian . |
| 28 | One of my slimmers wrote : ‘ My husband says I now have the figure I had when he married me 30 years ago ’ . |
| 29 | Robyn asked as he pulled her close to him once again . |
| 30 | It was a fair enough question , and when it came to being fair Fabia endorsed that she owed him this particular explanation . |