Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time I get caught or arrested I get asthma . |
| 2 | There was only one day , was n't there , or did they have days here but they were just very long ? |
| 3 | Or did he think Rich owed him money ? |
| 4 | Had he been a dunce at it or did his present situation , despite the opportunity it affords for the histrionics he so loves , make him feel like pawn ? |
| 5 | Oh no it was a tractor thing was n't it , or did you play snakes and ladders as well ? |
| 6 | And was this seven days a week , or did you have Sundays ? |
| 7 | And then , at four-thirty when she was just contemplating going off shift , a call came in on the red phone that made her feel cold inside . |
| 8 | It reminded her again of the woman who had drifted from window to window waiting for Luke — her unadorned face , the limp that made one shoulder dip as she hurried to meet him . |
| 9 | Somehow that made me tell lies . ’ |
| 10 | Then Lorne said something that made me half-identify Rimbo as French . |
| 11 | Two years ago , I went on holiday to the States and witnessed scenes in clubs that made me realize women were n't as inhibited as I 'd thought . |
| 12 | In interviews , Gedge said he was fascinated by the downside of Best 's character ; the flaws in his make-up that led him to skip training session and stay in discotheques ( as they were then called ) for hours after he had officially opened them . |
| 13 | Terrapins have been left here and in similar ponds around the country by bored pet owners for years , but the numbers have been growing thanks to children who have tired of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle craze that led them to buy terrapins in the first place . |
| 14 | ‘ Six years , and then burning up this last week I 've spent in Singapore , regretting the entrenched prejudices that stopped me making love to you last time we were together . |
| 15 | It was knowing that surgery could work miracles that helped him overcome fears about the daunting operation . |
| 16 | I am told that Honest John has taken to phoning up editors of the papers that helped him regain power to plead with them not to be so beastly . |
| 17 | You had your certain lot of wee machines that helped you to do things but more or less it was all done with the hand . |
| 18 | Hands in pockets , Lennon sauntered through the plaza , pausing only to disable any artificial lifeforms that approached him asking questions . |
| 19 | This had been the root of so many of her fantasies about him in the past , fantasies that involved her having power over him . |
| 20 | When we began to consider planting a church in our local community centre , we began a strategy that involved us taking part in as many secular organisations meeting in the centre as possible . |
| 21 | When there was a sense of unrest and what not , and then first one ship then the other , starts shuddering but before that happened we saw Germans coming off in the rafts and that . |
| 22 | Our informants had a well-articulated theory of the relation between ‘ work-in-school ’ and success in a life career that allowed them to see work-in-school as the first rung of their adult moral careers . |
| 23 | The pope 's strongest card was the one that allowed him to raise money from the separate states and their princes — most of it not long-term income but exceptional grants . |
| 24 | Some years ago Lucy Sells ( 1978 ) talked about mathematics as ‘ the critical filter ’ that determined which careers people might enter . |
| 25 | In the brief civil war that followed he took Worcester for the rebels in January 1322 , but was captured by the king 's forces at Tutbury , Derbyshire , on 11 March . |
| 26 | ‘ T was the same gallantry that prompted him to send Matilda to her most powerful supporter , instead of keeping her isolated at Arundel . |
| 27 | He 'd never known a time when Klein did n't need money for some gambit or other , and that meant he needed painters . |
| 28 | Convention , technique , and an empathy with the popular mind all went into the perfecting of the Chaplin act and it was these things that enabled him to become Sennett 's most accomplished pupil and which allowed him to create the cinema 's most appealing and most universal symbol . |
| 29 | Instead it switched a light on inside my head that enabled me to see things , which at the time , were away beyond my full understanding . |
| 30 | To extrapolate from the fact that some forms of literacy practice develop explicitness to a theory that literacy is intrinsically capable of being culture-free and therefore represents an evolutionary advance in intellectual power , as some of the writers we have been examining do , is to take literacy out of the very context that enabled it to develop explicitness . |