Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [noun] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked Rooney to discuss some of his recent paintings starting with ‘ Why are we Leaving ? painted in 1989 . |
| 2 | ‘ I met Rainald to gain some time , not because of Edmund . |
| 3 | The week at Mine-head proved very enjoyable and away from work I found time to read some very interesting books . |
| 4 | ‘ I stopped Pool crushing that woman to death . ’ |
| 5 | In this way I encouraged Heathcliff to have more confidence in himself . |
| 6 | I spent hours watching those |
| 7 | I , I sort of heard Debbie and Chris talking the other day , and I might have got it totally mixed up , but I reckon , I heard Chris saying that , well basically what I gathered was that Andy might have a different father to Chris and it was Andy 's father that 's died , right ? |
| 8 | I heard Cortot play several concerts after the war , and these made me more aware than ever how important it is to give every ounce of yourself to Chopin if you want to play him well ! |
| 9 | And I heard Monks say this : ‘ So the only proof of the boy 's identity is at the bottom of the river , and the old woman who received it is dead . ’ |
| 10 | I du n no why he did that , but when I heard Marie tell that , I felt really horrible . |
| 11 | ‘ I heard Commandant say all patients not cured will have to be disposed soon . ’ |
| 12 | When I started circuit work that periscope , completely forgotten during the flight , made me jump just before touchdown . |
| 13 | And sometimes I felt he was different , and had changed , even though I knew people changed all the time and people our age changed faster than most . |
| 14 | ‘ I knew Faye had some complications and needed a nurse — Tom mentioned it the other day — but I had no idea you were a sort of watchdog as well . |
| 15 | ‘ I saw Mary Seal this afternoon . ’ |
| 16 | Purchases are up more than I thought people purchasing all the time is , that 's fine , they 've got a system , we can describe that in a paragraph here and that 'll satisfy them but there 's more of a problem when we 're buying in the software , more than a one off thing . |
| 17 | I thought John says all |
| 18 | I thought John says all you have to do is replace the grate and |
| 19 | Those incomers with whom I discussed class agreed that awareness of class is a typically British trait . |
| 20 | I did things like that . |
| 21 | it was only you I had breast fed all the |
| 22 | I remember I looked at the pile of Billy 's goods and chattels which were supposed to fit inside a twelve-by-six-foot room and saying : ‘ I came with a Sainsbury 's carrier — and I had trouble filling that . ’ |
| 23 | Well it depended er the reason I left that blank as I wondered companies take that meaning different things . |
| 24 | The version of emancipation which became law made many concessions to the interests of the gentry . |
| 25 | It may have been a consciousness of the inevitability of stalemate or gradual decline on the wages front at home which led Wilson to divert much of his attention the international scene . |
| 26 | Neither the United State– nor any other Western government which censured Israel took any effective action to stop the settlement process . |
| 27 | She called for a system which allowed councils to raise more revenue from local taxation , maximum decentralisation and decision-making and a constructive partnership among local authorities , central government and the European Commission . |
| 28 | Also for creative arts , a weekly period of music and art would be insufficient ; rather , a rotational arrangement should be employed which allowed pupils to spend more time on music , say , for part of two years , with the opportunity for work in art and perhaps drama at other times ' . |
| 29 | Texas drove some beasts to New Orleans and after 1849 to California , but it was the promise of the great north-eastern market which urged ranchers to explore those long routes which have become part of the heroic romance of the ‘ Wild West ’ , linking the remote south-west with the slowly approaching railheads and through them with the giant transport centre of Chicago , whose stockyards were opened in 1865 . |
| 30 | This approach released considerable management time , which enabled management to devote more attention to : |