Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked me that same question at the conference but , like Pontius Pilate , has not stayed to report my answer . |
| 2 | So we asked ourselves whether this catalogue would still find a corresponding resonance , given the flood of technical literature which is currently circulating in the ceramics market . |
| 3 | It labelled them as personal opinion and suggested that in future the press question everything said at any time by DEC staff , no matter how high ranking , to assure themselves they are getting the company line . |
| 4 | Luke 's words and their possible implication slammed belatedly into her brain as she was being introduced to the entertainment editor of a local newspaper , but natural incredulity dismissed them as more talk , just words carelessly plucked from an inadequate language . |
| 5 | Battling clans and pursuing Redcoats cursed them for presenting huge obstacles denying fast military movement around the Highlands , whereas the Victorians regarded them as sporting playgrounds and background subject matter for romantic oil paintings of the fat , unattractive aristocracy and their useless families . |
| 6 | Tory members who felt that Mr Lawson regarded them as intellectual pigmies ( as , doubtless , he did ) are puffed up with pleasure at how this kinder , gentler chancellor listens to them . |
| 7 | When the apostles wrote letters to their friends and colleagues they were always trying to pass on words of encouragement and the people who received these letters regarded them as precious sources of information , that is why many of the letters of Paul or John or Peter have been carefully guarded and handed down to ourselves . |
| 8 | With great effort he averted his gaze from the sight of Sarah Morey with her family , but he promised himself that one day soon he would look upon her intimately , now that she was free once more . |
| 9 | It excited her and she promised herself that one day she would unravel the mystery . |
| 10 | It was the ‘ Ology ’ line that hooked her and other papers followed her line . |
| 11 | For , if he used her as a model , she used him as good copy . |
| 12 | Third , though the agora certainly has a religious aspect — Kleisthenes probably purified it and banned burials there when he gave it new political importance — it also , and equally certainly , was a place where ordinary commerce was carried on , thus Demosthenes ( xviii.169 ) mentions the wicker booths set up for trading there . |
| 13 | The particular importance of housing tenure has been noted already : Townsend found that among respondents renting council accommodation only 20 per cent rated themselves as middle class while among owner-occupiers 40 per cent did so . |
| 14 | I seen myself and two police officers . |
| 15 | Gazing out into the blue , he asked himself if this assignment was his swan song . |
| 16 | I was impressed by a deluge of letters from the Masons which assured me that both men were entirely innocent of importing cannabis as the police alleged . |
| 17 | He told them that many children learned more slowly . |
| 18 | When he did appear through the darkness , he was in a foul mood , and told them that several bombs had failed to explode . |
| 19 | The co-ordinator told me that many people who had come to therapy groups for anxieties or depressions were now volunteer workers . |
| 20 | Hawking meanwhile , has a simple explanation for its success : ‘ Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales . |
| 21 | He told me that one factor which had greatly influenced him was her suggestion that on election day Granada should shift Coronation Street so as not to keep in many of his supporters who would otherwise be thinking of going to the polls . |
| 22 | Jamila told me that one day Anwar came into the shop and discovered Changez snoring as he sat on his stool , while in front of his closed eyes an SL was shoving a jar of herrings down his trousers . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , I remember … when I said you never talked about your parents , and you told me that one day you would tell me all about them . |
| 24 | The present owner of the rectory told me that one thing people notice when they go round the garden is that there are now no garage doors . |
| 25 | Told me that one youth was in custody and another due to appear in court for the break-ins . |
| 26 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 27 | ‘ They told me that this year they have employed a private contractor who is supposed to cut grass at least twice a month and weed once a month but its not happening , ’ he added . |
| 28 | But the wisdom of age told me that this parabola of promise would not be maintained indefinitely , but would peak and then decline . |
| 29 | Her triumphant smile told me that this time Jessica 's husband had excelled himself . |
| 30 | They told me that this sort of thing happens , it 's part of training , and to stick in there and show the buggers they were wrong . ’ |