Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The nineteen whom I interviewed included women with seven , five and four children , several under school age . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | I told them I had some wine and we all came back . |
| 8 | I I made some stock the other day |
| 9 | No , I I thought Nine man 's morris , I thought it was a ga er , a dance . |
| 10 | And er so while I was in this shop I I sold this chap five hundred bundles of fire wood you see ? |
| 11 | Er er always played football or tennis and I I played all sports that I could get hold of . |
| 12 | And you know I , I actually had phrases like bra burning thrown at me and erm I I said that feminism to me is about having the same opportunities as men and I put few of the phrases er er you know along those lines and so everybody round the table said well yes I believe in that too , I said well then you 're feminists and so it 's about valuing or devaluing words as well and you know you just made the point about changing words , but how far do we go with this ? |
| 13 | That one e erm I mean I 'm a I was just I I said twenty pound O six , it was a quick calculation , it ends up at seventeen per cent margin . |
| 14 | The one we see with five years I said to Bet well it 's bloody cheaper than the one she 's , anyway I I I had enough money on my er thing so |
| 15 | I I I I had another piece . |
| 16 | You know I pl I I started this album really I started writing it while I was doing Love Hurts in Israel and Zoe would s sort of catch in the caravan , what the hell are you doing now , you know I was writing lyrics and thi , and I started to get keyed into this album just before I finished Love Hurts . |
| 17 | Erm I I I did this morning but I 've handed it back to the District Council access to their newt report , which was referred to a couple of days ago . |
| 18 | So I 've , I I did some rice and ha had it , but might just as well have thrown it away . |
| 19 | And of course I I wanted some land as I presume all Welshmen are land hungry . |
| 20 | Some of my friendships from then I have retained and someone I met twenty years ago I still live with . |
| 21 | Alexis I himself took several initiatives , setting up a court theatre and appointing tutors not only for his sons but for his daughter Sophia as well . |
| 22 | This is because I can always ask ‘ Would I still prescribe that action if it was I who had that desire ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It was I who sent old Surrey north to crush James at Flodden . ’ |
| 24 | but I you said three hours or so . |
| 25 | I supported it as someone who opposed armed intervention in Iraq . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , ’ Arty said , feeling that at last he had someone who understood hi m and was taking his case seriously . |
| 27 | One regular was just thankful there was someone who spent more time in the pub than him . |
| 28 | In Mrs Margaret Thatcher British women have a real-life example of someone who took this advice . |
| 29 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
| 30 | Whites who did n't know him , yet condemned him with borrowed certainty as someone who had little interest in cricket beyond its utility as a stick to beat the apartheid policy with , were typical of the society I came from . |