Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nell was sitting at a table with a fortyish couple who she later told me owned one of the horses in the box-car , a dark bay called Redi-Hot . |
| 2 | He flew into Morag 's arms and the pair of them hugged one another . |
| 3 | Most of them got thirty years . |
| 4 | Most of them charged 60 per cent a year or 5 per cent a month . |
| 5 | The operation to free them involved four teams of three men from mines rescue centres at Selby and Doncaster working in 10-minute shifts to claw away debris from a bottom corner of the fall . |
| 6 | I became one of the enthusiastic mob ( mostly female ) who hung over the balcony rail at the end of performances of Swan Lake and Coppelia , yelling for Margot and Bobby ( Fonteyn and Helpmann ) , as if we knew them personally . |
| 7 | I became one of about 30 examiners out on the road , either on my own or with one colleague , and in my two year stint conducted 10 separate enquiries ( often involving more than one company ) . |
| 8 | In December 1979 I became one of two lesbians and sixty-five gay men providing a twenty-four-hours-a-day information service and helpline for the gay community . |
| 9 | And then of course as soon as I started the chemotherapy I became one of them and I started not to notice . |
| 10 | There I became two people — one who watched and one who tried to forget that the other watched . |
| 11 | And er I think after and when I became sixteen that er had to start paying your your m paying the union I had to join the union as a junior member you know . |
| 12 | And er of course , when I er I became twenty one , the National Health Insurance was er now went up to one and tenpence . |
| 13 | I asked one of the Commandos lifting the dead Germans . |
| 14 | I asked one of the medics who was unloading the wounded . |
| 15 | I asked one evening . |
| 16 | I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience . |
| 17 | When , a few days later , I asked one morning , " When a hen lays an egg , does it come out of hen 's beak ? " a deathly hush fell over the breakfast table . |
| 18 | By now we were amongst a group of riotous children , and I asked one of them if the festival were now over . |
| 19 | I asked one lecturer " What do you wish me to do now ? " and his answer was " That 's for you to decide . |
| 20 | I asked one of them . |
| 21 | And at night I asked one of the young men who was helping us , one who had come with the carters , to help me load the saint on to the wagon , to go to Ramsey to the aid and succour of our misused house . |
| 22 | Because I know I asked one of my friends |
| 23 | I asked one pupil if he ever said Grace . |
| 24 | I knew the children were not usually encouraged to guess so I asked one boy directly . |
| 25 | Well of course she came running to me , you see , and we immediately phoned for the doctor , you see but , however , and I said , look , phone for the doctor , I said , and then I said go across to the railway police just across the yard and I asked one of them to come to me and I said I will go up with her and be with her until the doctor arrived , er he was with her the police sergeant when she died . |
| 26 | And the corridor down and kitch two or three kitchens that were we we went er I asked one of th the attendants I got a I grabbed the another chap with me we we 'd come across together . |
| 27 | ‘ Would you like to pick your own nose , Sir , ’ I asked one serious looking shopper . |
| 28 | I asked one of they did n't I ? |
| 29 | ‘ But there is one thing that does very much interest me , as it happens … and that 's your answer to my question … the one I asked five minutes ago and to which you have so far avoided giving an answer … ’ |
| 30 | In order to discover whether voice setting and other factors might give hearers clues to a speaker 's ethnicity , I asked 43 East London children aged about 14 to listen to 12 short stretches of speech on tape and fill in a questionnaire . |