Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 2 | Julia , Ruth & I did this between us , but none of us had had any experience running the projectors , sound or lighting equipment beforehand . |
| 3 | After sailing all day , I reached a small island , where I slept that night . |
| 4 | More attractive were the hillier southern regions of Lewis and Harris where I spent most of my spare time rambling and climbing . |
| 5 | Perhaps you can guess exactly where I fell that night . |
| 6 | When I got into Holloway they have them little forms and they 've got pictures of a body with all arrows and everything , and where I had any bruises the doctor put these marks . |
| 7 | When discussing a passage in Dorothy 's German journal , where she states that she ‘ carried Kubla to a fountain in the neighbouring market-place , where I drank some excellent water ’ , one editor allowed himself to speculate upon the existence of a missing manuscript copy of Kubla Khan . |
| 8 | I visited the local teacher 's centre where I discussed this self-evaluation project and other similar projects with the warden . |
| 9 | We accept what they say , but if we talk about our homes — my mum said this or I cooked this — they hardly understand what we are saying . |
| 10 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
| 11 | ‘ It was n't because I saw some guy and said , ‘ Hey , he gets a lot of girls , ’ or I saw some guy and said , ‘ Man , I want to be that guy , ’ because there 's no-one on earth I want to be . |
| 12 | Was that when we did it , cos I did that with you did n't I in the afternoon , or I did some with somebody |
| 13 | Trollope evidently shares Jane Austen 's preference for past community to present isolation ; but where she felt those sites to be alternatives , he knows that the first is a part of history . |
| 14 | Then she was driven back to the squat , where she spent all afternoon putting up her curtains where none had been , or replacing curtains for which she had no feeling . |
| 15 | ‘ We took Laura to one evening reception where she spent most of the time entertaining folk in the kitchen . |
| 16 | She was educated at Handsworth Ladies College and at Newnham College , Cambridge , where she took both parts of the natural sciences tripos ( 1887 , 1888 ) , obtaining first-class honours . |
| 17 | As soon as he had driven Liz Spalding to her small apartment , where she made some basic changes to her appearance , and grabbed a bite to eat , Bodie took her to Linda 's school . |
| 18 | He could have gone on , recklessly , but he was unwilling to reach a consummation where she shared any abandon with him ; he had not forgiven her . |
| 19 | Pausing only to once more fill up with petrol , she drove through the German border and six miles on stopped at Cheb , on the Czechoslovakian border , where she changed some English pounds for Czech crowns , and drove on wondering if this ‘ on edge ’ feeling was going to stay with her until lunchtime tomorrow . |
| 20 | The doctor sent her to hospital where she stayed some time , and had X-ray examinations , and I was so worried . |
| 21 | She was rushed to Northampton General Hospital where she underwent several hours of surgery , including a tracheotomy operation . |
| 22 | Then he remembered that the cottage had been sold , the money placed in trust for his father 's mother , the income paying the fees of the nursing home where she sat all day rocking herself in a wheelchair — Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 23 | Yeah I reckon that might be lucky seeing you did that |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd like to know just where you got that . ’ |
| 25 | But I said it 's always the way when you think it 's a good examiner she or she , she gives you bad results and when it 's a bad , think oh an awful examiner I mean look at that one where you got that really tough examiner and you and Jenny was the only two that got honours . |
| 26 | You could write something similar to the following example anywhere in your program where you wished this calculation to be carried out . |
| 27 | It 's not because I had Christian parents , it 's not because I 'd some advantage over you , or you had some advantage over me , it is all of God 's graciousness , it is all of God 's giving ! |
| 28 | The daily , reassuring visit from the patrolling doctor was no more — as if by merely walking the rounds he or she had some magic formula that made us safe . |
| 29 | We eventually got away from the station and camped two hours later near a marsh , where we shot some duck for dinner , and two lily-trotters for our collection . |
| 30 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |