Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't say anything , but I saw Bob Lamb going along the beck , so I sent her off that way , too . |
| 3 | The male started to bully the female , so I removed her to another tank — better to be safe than sorry . |
| 4 | Now , if I told you about those years , you 'd have a story to write ! |
| 5 | ‘ I wrote a postcard to my parents , ’ recalls Margaret Olmer ; ‘ I ca n't remember if I addressed it to both . |
| 6 | Er , and if I said it about any television programme you had watched . |
| 7 | comment if I asked you for some advice ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | TWICE IN MY LIFE I have consciously avoided meeting someone , because I held them in such awe . |
| 10 | But even then , before I knew her at all , I sensed that normality was not really Karen 's thing . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When I told her about this |
| 16 | When I told her about this . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But when I accused her of that , she firmly shook her head . |
| 19 | I just knew I was inspired when I proposed you for this job here , that it would come back to me in some incredible way . |
| 20 | richly into , for I knew him by these things . |