Example sentences of "[vb past] in [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I really expected to see it , but when I did it amused me to follow you , and when you stopped in Wexford it was idle curiosity that prompted my behaviour , nothing else . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Now when I say he believed in England I do n't mean your thatched cottages and warm beer he did n't think the place was cute , not just his grandfather 's birthplace . |
| 3 | Elizabeth and I used with amusement to look at each other 's horoscope in the newspapers , but without credulity : I explained to her that even if one believed in astrology they must be regarded as nonsense , being entirely unscientific and paying no attention to the hour of birth and therefore to the ‘ rising sign ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ We can go anywhere we want to afterwards , ’ he added in case he was appearing stingy . |
| 5 | you can see in fact you know the position , for every option adopted in January I think the er , some of the things I 've seen will in fact will minimize the impact upon Pipers Vale , but I think that , I think we 'll have to wait until after Christmas to get the er final recommendations from the er from the |
| 6 | But even if we accept that there is a significant difference between the ‘ legal ’ and ‘ political ’ processes in the way in which decisions are reached , they would both still come firmly within the definition of power we adopted in part I , that is the ability to get others to do what you want them to , assuming this is different from what they would have done anyway , with the use or threat of sanctions if necessary . |
| 7 | Erm I came when I came in England I came here . |
| 8 | The butter was all loose , there was no prepacked butter , it was all c came in tubs you know . |
| 9 | When I look back at what I learnt in college I 'm disappointed to think that they did n't teach me more . |
| 10 | If I noticed in time I would have to run after him and ask for it . |
| 11 | Mitsubishi confirmed in February it was talking to SGS , and the SGS spokeswoman said on Friday that talks were continuing.SGS-Thomson calculates the world Flash memory market at $300m last year , and expects it to grow to $500m this year and , fuelled by demand for small , light portable storage , to soar to $2,500m by 1996 . |
| 12 | May I ask you to consider what happened in case it should recur , which we all hope it will not ? |
| 13 | Mrs Rosser said : ‘ If Daniel asks what happened in court we will tell him . |
| 14 | It was over as soon as it had happened , and as he turned in panic he could see that in reality she was exactly as before … except that she was looking at him now in a way that was more detached , stepping back as if to observe whatever he was going to do next . |
| 15 | The two claimed in court they only intended to scare him into giving information about their property . |
| 16 | She knew the answer even before she asked the question , so when the blond head shook in negation she was n't surprised . |
| 17 | When I arrived in Þingeyri I was expecting this , the second-biggest town in the area , to be a place worth seeing . |
| 18 | But when he first arrived in Swindon he slept in a car park . |
| 19 | To go back to the Gdynia one on the ninth of October nineteen forty three , I have to state that when our crew arrived in England we went to er through school at Bovingdon for a couple of weeks then we were assigned to the Ninety Second Bomb Group and they wan na be sure we fit in . |
| 20 | When Odessa arrived in England she was desperately ill . |
| 21 | When William arrived in England he met with pockets of resistance in various parts of the country from Tory groups . |
| 22 | When Gundovald first arrived in Gaul he apparently had an considerable quantity of treasure with him , which must suggest that he initially had the backing of the Byzantine emperor , whose concerns about the Lombards in Italy may well have stretched to a desire to see a close ally established in Francia . |
| 23 | On the day Sir Hubert arrived in Rangoon he sent for me to thank me for the way in which this delicate matter had been handled . |
| 24 | ‘ When I left my home in Stellenbosch it was almost 30C , but when I arrived in Japan it was very , very cold . |
| 25 | A year after I arrived in Fontanellato I did so and won a scholarship which paid half my school fees . |
| 26 | When we arrived in Lima it took time to go through the formalities . |
| 27 | When Roland arrived in Lincoln he was already irritated by having to take the train . |
| 28 | When I arrived in London we had a main meal and watched some television . |
| 29 | However , when it arrived in Suffolk it had been broken into three pieces , so the star quickly agreed to send a replacement . |
| 30 | When Theseus and the other Athenians arrived in Crete they were met by King Minos and his beautiful daughter Ariadne . |