Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cream-coloured dress of mine got covered with rust and , although I soaked it in biological liquid , it did n't get rid of the stain . |
| 2 | ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't say anything , but I saw Bob Lamb going along the beck , so I sent her off that way , too . |
| 4 | The male started to bully the female , so I removed her to another tank — better to be safe than sorry . |
| 5 | A voice from the wall beside him said : ‘ Would you understand if I told you about molecular breakdown and reassembly from a wide range of raw materials ? ’ |
| 6 | Now , if I told you about those years , you 'd have a story to write ! |
| 7 | ‘ I wrote a postcard to my parents , ’ recalls Margaret Olmer ; ‘ I ca n't remember if I addressed it to both . |
| 8 | Er , and if I said it about any television programme you had watched . |
| 9 | comment if I asked you for some advice ? |
| 10 | ‘ When I beat Nick for the Barcelona Open it gave me a three-year exemption on the tour but it turned out to be a £90,000 exemption — that 's what it cost me to keep playing until I lost it in 1991 . ’ |
| 11 | Like tea — we have the same brand each week — but if I know it 's cheaper in one shop I go into that shop , just to get that one thing — like I got it for 1 //6; this week and it 's usually 1 //11; — I like to get the best , but cheaper . |
| 12 | I do n't know bloody well like me , because I told her off one day , told her where to bloody go to . |
| 13 | I think it 'll be a good one because I got it from one of our clients . |
| 14 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 15 | I think she 's a bit upset , I think she thinks I 'm better , I 'm better than her because I beat her in that , and I think she 's , a bit of shock for her . |
| 16 | TWICE IN MY LIFE I have consciously avoided meeting someone , because I held them in such awe . |
| 17 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 18 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 19 | We did ask Dorothy to do it after I did it for four years , but she was n't keen and I had to go on . |
| 20 | But even then , before I knew her at all , I sensed that normality was not really Karen 's thing . |
| 21 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 22 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 23 | When I wore it for seven hours in wind-driven rain , the jacket only started absorbing water after the fourth hour . |
| 24 | Although the ministers were too polite to commit themselves , even when I pressed them on this point , it was clear to me that they felt they , and their church , had been used . |
| 25 | When I wrote it in 1971 there was a postal strike , so I took it up to the BBC personally . |
| 26 | The Muslim Palestinian defenders of Beaufort were ignorant of all this , sitting around the walls in silence when I told them of this historical the old tale of fear , treachery and pain . |
| 27 | When I told her about this |
| 28 | When I told her about this . |
| 29 | When I questioned him about this , he replied enigmatically that certain rock formations which had existed when they had arrived , had since disappeared and that he could swear that the rocks in some places had moved closer together . |
| 30 | But when I accused her of that , she firmly shook her head . |