Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loosing to Coventry and then Charlton in the space of a couple of weeks made just about everyone I knew suicidal — and all cause of Brendan Ormsby failing to kick the ball out into touch on his own dead ball line . |
| 2 | Do n't tell me I imagined that too . |
| 3 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 4 | And , did continue to get professional help after that , but I think she was actually one of the factors that sent me further down , by telling me I looked well ! |
| 5 | But I do remember that in every room he showed me I made sure I was near to the door , the safest point of exit if he tried anything . |
| 6 | They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet , and I 'd got tremendous scarring of the gut . |
| 7 | ‘ They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet … ‘ |
| 8 | when we us the last two and that one exploded on me I had this and it goes and exploded all over me and went over |
| 9 | ‘ I hit my head on the kerb when I fell and when I went to hospital two days later they told me I had severe bruising of the brain , ’ said Walter after his Kempton win on Mithl Al Hawa . |
| 10 | Behind me I heard one of the elderly male residents say to his visitor : ‘ Oh God , it 's her . ’ |
| 11 | Behind me I heard two more shots . |
| 12 | There was nothing I felt inclined to do , no action I wished to take . |
| 13 | I became a socialist there because while I did not agree with everything said by the Marxists I met and with whom I became friendly , they gave me a language for understanding the painful separations of class . |
| 14 | And let me assist such reflections by reporting that a gifted and earnest English poet of thirty-two , whom I met this very summer , not only confessed that he had never read through Basil Bunting 's Briggflatts , but quite plainly saw no reason why he ever should . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the Consul-General at Florence , Mr Wakefield-Harrey , whom I had first met in Tripoli , stayed with in Florence and met once more in Rome for the Chamberlain-Mussolini talks , had sent me a long Miltonic poem ( for these slightly underemployed officials in remote places often took to authorship as an alternative to the bottle ) about which he begged me to seek Eliot 's opinion . |
| 16 | It was Cam Robbie , whom I had last seen during the war twenty-five years earlier , when he was drummer of a rather tatty three-piece outfit in a night-club in George Street . |
| 17 | My touching faith in the Chancellor 's resolve and commitment to anti-inflation policy was ridiculed by those with whom I had this discussion , who were obviously much more deeply cynical than I am . |
| 18 | Several of my ex-pupils , some of whom I 'd first taught when they were 7 years old , grimaced at me as they carried on preparing their lunch . |
| 19 | With all the hauteur of a Southern lady , the phrasing of her refusal was admirable : ‘ To hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is , to me , inhuman , indecent and dishonourable . |
| 20 | This was the experience of the chaplain from my old school , a man from whom I learnt many secrets of the natural world on hiking trips through the mountains and lakes , sea shores and high cliffs of the English Lake District . |
| 21 | The nineteen whom I interviewed included women with seven , five and four children , several under school age . |
| 22 | For the first time in my life I found myself surrounded by friends — friends whom I found interesting , and friends who appeared to find me interesting , bright and witty , despite my all-too-evident disadvantages . |
| 23 | They have a new , quiet , charming , and very well qualified resident doctor Doctor Booth , who has made a special study of excess weight , and whom I found full of sound advice . |
| 24 | Karl Kraus ‘ whom I venerated more than anyone else in the world , without whose wrath and zeal I would n't have cared to live , whom I had never dared to approach . ’ |
| 25 | May I extend the grateful thanks of Mr. and Mrs. Emery of Eye in my constituency , whom I visited this morning and who have just had their home insulated under the Government 's home energy efficiency scheme ? |
| 26 | Another lawyer involved in the murder case , to whom I spoke last year , described her as ‘ a woman obsessed by family names , titles , and money ’ . |
| 27 | I told them I had some wine and we all came back . |
| 28 | I designed and made the drawings for some jigs and we made them I 'd two or three men with me and they made these jigs and them underneath the sets . |
| 29 | And yet , when I met them I thought these are not children that I have to think of as children , they 're people and they 're fascinating ! |
| 30 | So I did n't join any of them I kept independent while I could at any rate and then . |