Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | was spinning , I thought I was gon na jump off the roof , I rang my G P and said , you never told me I had to decrease this dose , hang on just get through the weekend , |
| 2 | I think it was two hours for me I had to plough that one . |
| 3 | Dragged myself to the doctor who told me I had to expect such things at my age and prescribed vitamin pills . |
| 4 | This guy persuaded me I had to adopt that attitude in the Tests as well . |
| 5 | I was the prime suspect this time because of the Golden Syrup job , and although I knew she did n't have any proof , nothing I said made any difference . |
| 6 | He was a seriouslooking Welshman whom I had met several times back in England and around the orchard . |
| 7 | The most admirable part of the whole affair was the undeviating loyalty of his wife , Valerie Hobson , with whom I had had some encounters previously , when she was married to Anthony Havelock-Allan . |
| 8 | Suddenly Graham , whom I 'd known all my life , was different . |
| 9 | And , and then er at that particular time you know and er then unemployment you , I you had to see each firm was issued with the and the firms had to agree that you had to sign a contract of employment so that er if you were leaving or he was paying you off , you had to be given two weeks ' notice either way before they pay you off . |
| 10 | ‘ We could all be dead in six months , ’ she replied , shaking her head with an air of someone who 'd heard those sort of stories before . |
| 11 | Occasionally someone who 'd died Another type of undertaking was where somebody had died out of the island . |
| 12 | Not unless someone had discovered a way of reviving someone who had lost most of his brain matter and half of his skull . |
| 13 | But someone did , someone here did — someone who had overheard enough of the original plan ; someone who had sensed a wonderfully providential opportunity for himself , or for herself , and who had capitalised upon that opportunity . |
| 14 | Once , he thought , there had been someone who had mattered all too much , but by the grace of God and Llewelyn she was safe out of his reach now , calm in her sanctuary above Aber ; a refuge as sacrosanct as the grave and almost as narrow . |
| 15 | Especially not someone he 'd known all his life . |
| 16 | Nothing need surprise me somebody went said this bloke never advertise at all its all word of mouth , |
| 17 | I 'd slotted in , by mistake , a tape on which I 'd recorded some sixties pop music for a party , and which I 'd never run back . |
| 18 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 19 | And the human frame on to which I had grafted this delusion had definitely left Cliff Top , but despite this , from time to time I would come across what seemed like obscure messages , quirkily encoded , that threatened to upset my peace of mind . |
| 20 | I drew a peg in the bend which I had drawn some years before and knew there were a few fish there and decided on one rig only — the pole . |
| 21 | I remembered the queer mixture of fear and belief with which I had read this and afterwards written it down . |
| 22 | It was here that we found the official report of the operation by 22 Squadron on September 17 , 1940 , the report with which I had opened this story . |
| 23 | Then someone dragged me along to learn meditation , which I found did most of the things advertised for it — you feel more focused and it reduces the interminable mental chatter that stops you getting to sleep at night . |
| 24 | Denmark , which I visited to explore this very subject , uses this process . |
| 25 | There was a carpet into which you seemed to sink several inches , an ornate desk in the style of the French Empire , a huge couch , upholstered in grey and scarlet , and a number of big soft armchairs in the same pattern . |
| 26 | which you decided had some prospects of being reclaimed . |
| 27 | He did not approve of only children , even though he was one himself who had married another . |
| 28 | By good fortune it had been the manager himself who had effected this particular transaction , and who remembered the occasion reasonably clearly . |
| 29 | ‘ I really just wanted to see somebody who had done some heinous crimes and find out if there was anything different about him that would throw light on demon possession , that type of thing , ’ he says . |
| 30 | And I mean recently I came across somebody who 'd got some part holdings in diamonds , and of course the diamond market 's gone into rapid decline because of the er is it Namibian diamonds , and , and the Russians er breaking up the De Beer market . |