Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to meet in a public house where I bought you half a dozen pints and we engaged in a long and fascinating conversation .
2 I bought a French team shirt , and wore it at the Liverpool game where we stuffed them 2–2 .
3 Some German military police took Tribe prisoner and locked him in a barn , where they shot him fifteen minutes later .
4 They 've all been partially excluded from mainstream schools , where they found it hard to fit in .
5 How he had overcome all the complex problems of graft-rejection , septicaemia , and so on — not to mention the central problem of bestowing life — was beyond me , although I took it that fortune had favoured his researches .
6 Because although I hated it worse than anything , I did enjoy it too , once I got used to it .
7 ALTHOUGH I promised you last week that I 'd bring details of the all Ireland Schools teams competition this week , I 'm afraid that I do n't have full details to hand as yet , so I 'll hold it over to next week .
8 ALTHOUGH I promised you last week that I 'd bring details of the all Ireland Schools teams competition this week , I 'm afraid that I do n't have full details to hand as yet , so I 'll hold it over to next week .
9 But although I found it impossible not to be moved by the vibes and hype of enthusiastic publicity people and charming sales teams , there is no getting away from the fact that it is going to be a very tough year , with too many major titles to be able to do justice to them all ; and I do n't see any real evidence of anyone pruning their lists .
10 Although I found it impossible to imagine such a conversation with Mrs Monro , I had no doubt that Lili was telling the truth , and whatever the psychological convolutions the facts were there .
11 And although I found it hard to understand that you did n't want to meet her again that evening , I accepted that she was possibly ‘ not your type ’ .
12 ‘ My spirits varied between depression , acceptance , and hope , ’ he said , ‘ although I found it easier not to think of my son , Antoine . ’
13 The family could not speak English and my schoolboy French was almost exhausted so I bade them good afternoon but managed to make them understand that I would have dinner with them one evening soon — ‘ An English dinner . ’
14 Not all mine did , so I left them all as thick as possible and matched the thick with the thin later .
15 Benjamin became lost in his own thoughts so I left him alone and lay on my own bed thinking about Mathilda until the bell sounded for supper .
16 I went back to Ralemberg 's house but it was all sealed up like a tomb so I left it alone .
17 ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each .
18 About this time I had , by a certain wicked attempt — for I had a bold heart which rather put me upon courting than avoiding danger — set a hornet 's nest about my ears so I thought it better to remove myself to France and be a little more discreet in my armours .
19 " Tim was four years older than me , and quite clearly destined to be something successful in life , " he would remember , " so I thought it better to stay with him .
20 If we 'd just attacked they 'd have killed you immediately , so I thought it best to try and get you to a safer distance before anything happened . ’
21 So I thought it best to lie low for a while ; keep the nose clean by cutting out the rowdies .
22 I did n't like the colour on it , though , so I sprayed it gold with car spray .
23 Well , I was there , behind the bar , standing in for Marcus , for a few minutes he said , more like two hours , so I saw it all develop .
24 The fish was still on , and I had the golf-ball firmly clutched in my left hand , so I landed them both .
25 None of them applied to me , so I deleted them all and put ‘ Ms ’ .
26 I had no connections with the bigwigs of the movie capital so I found it impossible as a stranger to make the right contacts among publicity agents at the various studio lots , and to meet the stars .
27 ‘ Apparently , her cat had very bad plaque on its teeth and she was really concerned , so I gave her some advice and Amy has been in touch ever since .
28 But remember , Isabel , if you dislike your present position , that once I offered you honourable marriage .
29 So that Clara , although she found it hard to believe that she herself was thus chosen , had no alternative to believing it .
30 Maui claimed to lose it , so she offered him each of her fingers and toes , one by one , until she realised she had been tricked .
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