Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On reflection , though , she doubted if she 'd got enough crocks or cutlery and ‘ what was they going ter sit on ? ’ |
| 2 | It all reminded me of what I received when I dared to make some mild criticism of the habits of cyclists and for much the same reason . |
| 3 | There can have been few more painful moments in Melvyn Bragg 's professional life than when he sat in the audience of a public performance where Barry Humphries , in the guise of Edna Everage , asked if anyone had read any of Bragg 's novels and nobody raised their hand . |
| 4 | Then my Cid alighted when he had said this , and the ladies knelt down before him , and kissed his hand , and wished him long life . |
| 5 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
| 6 | It was as well that she did because she had forfeited most of her private life for the sake of her chosen career . |
| 7 | He replied that he did , but asked whether I had tried any of the new generation motion detectors . |
| 8 | she spoke to and said we 've discussed it cos I asked whether she 'd done that , she said she 'd spoken to and said we 've discussed that we should share the work more equally and said no I 'm happy with the way things were and left it that way |
| 9 | Stefan waited until he had gone some way down the road , then rushed out to the telephone . |
| 10 | Instantly she defended herself , just as she had when he had made that accusation before . |
| 11 | As he was getting into the train , Jordi smiled and shrugged as he had done that night in Valladolid when the secret police had led him away . |
| 12 | For some teachers , problems arose when they sought to reconcile this expectation with their simultaneous sense of obligation to monitor , diagnose , assess and interact at the level of the individual child . |
| 13 | However , a problem arose when one tried to use such theories to construct a model of the atom . |
| 14 | She wondered if he 'd kissed many girls , just because they were pretty and expected it . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose you must , ’ Rose said reluctantly , and Theda wondered if she had imagined all might be settled at once . |
| 16 | She was only in college the one year , less than a year if you — we just wondered if she tried to buy some here , that 's all , and that could be how she might have met the wrong kind of people . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm the archivist who bothered you last April , and I wondered if you 'd had any second thoughts , ’ Jo-Ann said to Edward . |
| 18 | Also , Simon wondered if you had had any thoughts on the questionnaire we need to put together for customers of the 3/e ? |