Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing I felt inclined to do , no action I wished to take . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the Consul-General at Florence , Mr Wakefield-Harrey , whom I had first met in Tripoli , stayed with in Florence and met once more in Rome for the Chamberlain-Mussolini talks , had sent me a long Miltonic poem ( for these slightly underemployed officials in remote places often took to authorship as an alternative to the bottle ) about which he begged me to seek Eliot 's opinion . |
| 3 | It was Cam Robbie , whom I had last seen during the war twenty-five years earlier , when he was drummer of a rather tatty three-piece outfit in a night-club in George Street . |
| 4 | Several of my ex-pupils , some of whom I 'd first taught when they were 7 years old , grimaced at me as they carried on preparing their lunch . |
| 5 | Ken Coates , Nottingham 's MEP and my colleague at the Russell Foundation for whom I do some research , has raised the alert on this . |
| 6 | Well I have made some notes since you j can I just walk down and get them I want this to happen I made some notes , here . |
| 7 | Maybe it 's not activated — by which I mean ready to go off when a vessel passes over it — until the ticking stops . |
| 8 | He passed over a camo poncho , which I told Kaptan to put on , after I removed his blood-stained shirt . |
| 9 | She found him a ‘ rather stern-featured man ’ , with a strong Northumbrian accent and seems to have preferred the ‘ Rocket ’ which she described as ‘ This snorting little animal , which I felt inclined to pat … ’ and so ranks among the first to fall under the spell of the steam locomotive . |
| 10 | He prodded once more his attaché case — which I felt inclined to keep my eyes averted from — and said : ‘ I suppose you 've been wondering why I never let go of this case . |
| 11 | Hibiscus , frangipani , bougainvillaea and the glorious colours of the flame tree were a visual feast and a challenge for the camera which I felt unable to cope with at first . |
| 12 | Mr C F Motley of Lincolnshire has a small collection of such things which I feel sure have a rarity value as match-slips are eagerly collected on a world-wide scale . |
| 13 | You make me say things which should remain unsaid , you pressure me on an emotional level which I find difficult to control . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a task in which I stand ready to join John Major whenever he is ready to begin , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Lot a hundred and twenty five thank you another snuff box now showing , Lot one two five for which I have two offered and twenty two fifty , two eighty , three hundred three hundred pounds , any more ? |
| 16 | Erm my job , I , I 'm employed by the Union of Students which you have all paid your subscription to so therefore , in effect , you 're all my bosses . |
| 17 | He was acutely conscious of the touch of Madeleine 's hand , which she seemed disinclined to remove . |
| 18 | The play in which she had first appeared was still running ; its clumsy comedy appealed to the audiences who came here . |
| 19 | It was still as gloomy as the day on which she had first seen it and she longed to transform it into a place of splendid elegance . |
| 20 | She read it through and then sat for a long time on the white strips of the reclining chair in which she had first seen Signor Fixit . |
| 21 | Leith was reversing her car when she spotted the Jaguar which she had first seen — grief , was it only yesterday morning ? |
| 22 | Swathes of jasmine , loose from a prolifically flowering specimen on the edge of the house , occasionally fell over their railing , with their sweet scent , before Mrs Irving , clothed in her gardening gear of wellingtons and apron over the seated and threadbare tweed suit in which she had first enticed them in , came and bound these back . |
| 23 | Golden Girl had cleared the rocks on which she had first grounded , the wind slithering the lightened catamaran broadside across the sparse grasses sprouting from the leached sandy soil behind the ancient coastline . |
| 24 | Her exit caused him more concern than if she had made it in the blaze of anger similar to that with which she had first confronted him . |
| 25 | It is also significant that the steam turbine and the pneumatic tyre were the only major British innovations of this period ; in the new industries she was a long way behind Germany and the United States and by 1914 was falling behind even in the older industries in which she had first established her supremacy . |
| 26 | She started to look up , past shoes to a pair of trousers the material of which she had last seen in Prague too ! |
| 27 | Her breath and his rose into the air in clouds and there was that peaty smell which she had last smelt at the florist 's . |
| 28 | Yep , now nowadays erm they 've got the best , I mean the equipment is excellent , er it came in my time erm my predecessor 's time and it 's been carried on now and new developments have come in , erm and with , of course techniques in , not only dealing with the chemicals in , in making safe afterwards which is twice as complicated I think , you know the decontamination side , the clearing up , the protecting of the environment from toxic chemicals er which we 've all heard about in newspapers , and read reports and seen it on television , these , these accidents up and down the world . |
| 29 | You do n't grasp it when you 're young , and if you 're born , obviously as a lot of the population now are , much younger , and have n't really been either touched or involved in a war , it 's very difficult , it 's something which we 've all seen on television , we 've all seen it at the films and you tend if you 're not careful , to pick up the glamorous side of it , you do n't realise I do n't think and in fact I keep saying this — I do n't think you can ever realise what it must be like to be in a battle until you 've actually been there . |
| 30 | But erm Idris said , in effect , which is an expression which we 've all used at some time or another , he did nothing for me . |