Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was a seriouslooking Welshman whom I had met several times back in England and around the orchard . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Suddenly Graham , whom I 'd known all my life , was different . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Occasionally someone who 'd died Another type of undertaking was where somebody had died out of the island . |
| 7 | Not unless someone had discovered a way of reviving someone who had lost most of his brain matter and half of his skull . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Especially not someone he 'd known all his life . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I remembered the queer mixture of fear and belief with which I had read this and afterwards written it down . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He did not approve of only children , even though he was one himself who had married another . |
| 18 | By good fortune it had been the manager himself who had effected this particular transaction , and who remembered the occasion reasonably clearly . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They came to the ‘ eye ’ of this storm , below a sullen , winter sky , and at once Tallis began to recognize the deep canyon which she had hollowed those days before , with Morthen . |
| 22 | As Shama talked , Hussa added a reminder here and there as though they were stories which she had heard many times before . |
| 23 | When she returned to Jedburgh that evening she was in great pain from what is likely to have been a haemorrhage , of which she had suffered several since her son 's birth . |
| 24 | She began working with ‘ handicapped ’ children and concluded that the methods which she had found most successful in dealing with feeble-minded children would be quite applicable to those who were normal and that ordinary schools needed the sort of transforma-tion she had accomplished at her own ‘ special ’ school . |
| 25 | Christmas eve arrived and at 5.00 pm we changed into our walking out uniforms which we had spent most of the morning ironing . |
| 26 | Further it suggested that of those people who did not go to a lawyer , a higher proportion had received help from outside the household , and of that group only one-quarter had received advice to go to a lawyer which they had ignored Such contrary evidence does not denigrate the value of pre-legal advice , but suggests that , as would be expected , it is not the only significant factor in determining whether , and if so why and how , people seek legal advice . |
| 27 | The investigators reported from a previous publication in which they had compared these thirteen subjects with twenty-nine borderline schizophrenics , thirty-four neurotics and twenty-three high-risk subjects with no mental illness . |
| 28 | In the past strategy was dictated by head office while divisions and international businesses were left to implement actions in which they had played little or no part in developing . |
| 29 | By the middle 1950 's most of my generation were settling down to carving out their careers and bringing up families after the unsettling effects of the war years during which they had experienced all they wanted of adventure and excitement . |
| 30 | Across the field the bloom of the cherry tree , under which they had sat that morning , hung sodden and spoiled . |