Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That you did not write letters to me I sometimes attributed to the fact that you must indeed be a secret agent , unwilling to commit himself in writing . |
| 2 | When Gyggle first explained this experiment to me I almost laughed at how facile it was . |
| 3 | But nothing I ever heard at home attracts me to literature or the arts . |
| 4 | I did miss him , though , and I quickly met up with a new boyfriend , Mark , in whom I again confided about my strange ‘ food hang-ups ’ , as I called them , whilst keeping my other friendships quite superficial by always pretending everything was fine . |
| 5 | There were no tourists , and my air of demure solitariness must have been conspicuous , for I attracted the attention of a man whom I then thought of as middle-aged , and who was of distinctly raffish appearance . |
| 6 | He was a very earnest , very intelligent gentleman — and very much a gentleman , whom I never thought of as particularly ambitious . |
| 7 | Mrs Nicholas Beaumont , whose husband is Clerk of the Course , and whom I only saw in the distance ; Mr and Mrs Oliver Sherwood , Major and Mrs Peter Wiggin , Mr and Mrs Tim Dawson , Mr Harry Middleton , Mrs Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie , Colonel and Mrs Tommy Wallis , and their daughter Mrs Charles Baker ; Mr and Mrs John Guest , Mrs Tom Scott , Mr Peter Dimmock , and Mrs George Beeby . |
| 8 | In his ‘ A Study of English poetry ’ , which ran in The English Review from March to June 1912 , Newbolt refers to Pound as ‘ a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest ’ . |
| 9 | In the Poetry Review for February , 1912 , a critic , who is himself a poet , and whom I always read with great interest , speaks of the struggle ‘ to find out what has been done , once and for all , better than it can ever be done again , and to find out what remains for us to do ’ … . |
| 10 | I left Trieste the following morning for Mavhinje and the house of my Aunt Ema , whom I always remembered with real affection . |
| 11 | And that was one of the first jobs I I practically did on my own . |
| 12 | Yeah this is what wan na I I just got onto like the first lesson of it . |
| 13 | I I I just wondered with the so-called if staff members independent advice , erm , on what is best for them to do with superannuation pension scheme . |
| 14 | Erm I think I I probably outlined in in the previous interview , erm the range of offences , but but very briefly , it was everything from fairly minor trivial offences , erm prostitution , shoplifting , petty theft . |
| 15 | you 've got proof , and I used to check it as a form teacher every , at the end of every week tick it and sign it I I only had about what , twenty in the class used to , every end of every week check and see they 're writing their homework down and if any problems came of it had n't written it down they were in trouble ! |
| 16 | If a guy I mean I 've worked for farmers I I actually worked for a farmer once from seven o'clock in the morning till nine o'clock at night for five quid . |
| 17 | For a city the nature of York it is vital , in my view , that public confidence in the greenbelt it 's got to endure for beyond thirty years , that is the case I would share the views to some extent of the York City in that , and which I I certainly read into ma'am , your , two of your questions , what happens beyond two thousand and six ? |
| 18 | Eventually it seemed it was only I who ever thought about that still , cold morning , recalling in my dreams that cry and that hand held out to me for help I could not , would not give , and the silence that followed Andy disappearing under the ice . |
| 19 | When I heard Deane had begged the Sheffield board to let him come to Leeds , I was really pleased that we had someone who really wanted to be here . |
| 20 | He appreciated how difficult it was for me ‘ to give way ’ , what a wrench it was for someone who always operated on his own to cooperate with an act he neither understood nor , at that time , actively sought . |
| 21 | and eventually after some searching they nominated someone who then resigned from her post not Clare |
| 22 | For someone who never expected to be officially recognised for her work , the BEM is ample reward . |
| 23 | Someone who occasionally joined in these discussions was a pupil of Lewis 's , Alan Griffiths , who had also become a friend . |
| 24 | ‘ Only a really special person would help out someone they barely knew like this . ’ |
| 25 | In both cases I worked on oil on panel which I later fixed to the walls . |
| 26 | The landlord wants a months deposit and another month 's rent in advance which I already paid to the agency . |
| 27 | I began Chapter 4 by contrasting two views of physics , which I loosely characterized as the instrumental and expressive view . |
| 28 | The previous version was on That 's Entertainment ( TER ) — a set which I enthusiastically reviewed in CDR 11/90 . |
| 29 | As time went on , and particularly by the early Seventies , I began to question whether one could take this point of view in a situation where things were going on which I clearly saw to be ‘ bad ’ . |
| 30 | A wobbling of the stepping stone , a panicky leap — and I landed sprawling on a soft , spongy blanket of sphagnum moss : to find the fingers of my right hand touching a small plant — which I instantly recognised as the common sundew . |