Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom did very well at the Guildhall where nobody told him he should stop singing , a piece of good news he passed on triumphantly to his grandmother . |
| 2 | He remembered that Firelight had to feed it with milk , but where she kept it he had no idea . |
| 3 | Where it tells you you 're at |
| 4 | He thinks nothing of staying up till two or three o'clock in the morning in casinos , although I tell him it 's very , very bad for one 's constitution to have irregular hours . |
| 5 | I 'm also concerned that if they went down School Lane , although I think it you know I understand they 've got to go to Norwood Gardens and things , that with the car park at The Plough now being blocked I mean School Lane at peak times for schools is a nightmare . |
| 6 | Did n't want to talk to me , so I told her she 'd have to wait . ’ |
| 7 | By that time they were bad , so I told her I thought I was having a miscarriage . |
| 8 | I knew my family would not like my going , so I told them I was going walking in Austria . |
| 9 | He said he was a Bill Francis , so I told him we had a General Francis talking to Mum in the sitting-room , and he seemed ever so surprised ! |
| 10 | ‘ So I told him it was over . |
| 11 | Understandably , he was curious as to the reason for my enquiries , so I told him you were a distant relative , a spinster who had no other relatives and who might wish to get in touch with him . |
| 12 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 13 | I 've never been very good at rejecting people , so I told him I was frigid . |
| 14 | This was very promising indeed and Paul , the breeder , sounded like a really nice , caring sort of chap , so I told him I was very interested , and would call with a definite answer in a few days . |
| 15 | Major Mills has a hand on my knee , so I tell him I am furious . |
| 16 | Although she told me she was experiencing a certain amount of discomfort due to the condition of her appendix , and although she was not really looking forward to surgery and to the anaesthetic , none the less Kirsty seemed to have no more than the expected apprehension which would have been felt by anyone . |
| 17 | ‘ Although she told me she can only ring when her daddy is out as he does n't like animals … |
| 18 | Although she told him she had nothing to say which might help , he was very persistent . |
| 19 | But although she said it she could not be certain that it was true . |
| 20 | " So you told her you were sick and now you 're going to sneak out , hoping that you 'll be back before the party is over . " |
| 21 | I am preparing papers for the relinquishment of the claim , but once she signs them she will be literally on the streets and penniless . |
| 22 | Once you tell me I 'll know it . |
| 23 | Er yeah well all , all those things er and I thought the , the diagram was marvellous and you sort of to start with you , you were thinking ahead to doing this diagram and you could see that that 's what you were waiting to do and then once you did it you were up and running . |
| 24 | round the ten every happens to everyone they work you know ten twelve is the obvious one to go for the go eight nine ten twelve fourteen and then once you do it you do n't realize you 've done it and you do n't stop . |
| 25 | One of the things that never ceases to amaze me about any technology is that once you have it you always expect it to do more . |
| 26 | We bought , we bought him a load of revision books erm from Smith 's er not for maths but for chemistry , biology , physics , ma , not maths something else , Cherry went and bought four of them and Helen had got one for French anyway , so we told him he 's got to erm get down to some serious |
| 27 | They stand outside , fidgeting and fighting but once they get it they 're okay . |
| 28 | They stand outside , fidgeting and fighting but once they get it they 're okay . |
| 29 | Naturally , Eliot was pleased about my enthusiasm for Collingwood , for whom he had considerable regard ; but although he told me he liked the Essay on Philosophical Method , which had appeared in 1933 and concerning which I had attended Collingwood 's lecture-course in my first year , I could see that he was more interested in such works as A. E. Taylor 's Faith of a Moralist , or more directly theological works , such as those of Jacques Maritain . |
| 30 | well although he told me he 'd er , he 'd , well he 'd had a reasonable catch he 'd er , remember them , bring one up |