Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since we met , my dear , so gently and subtly you 've been teaching me , you and Miguelito , and instead of thanking you I had this attack of childish pique and blamed you for hurting my feelings ! |
| 2 | She stood , slowly turned , and where the spines had penetrated her she oozed bright sap . |
| 3 | When the midwife interrupted the prayers to inform him he had another daughter he replied tersely , " I 'll attend to it all when I 've finished here . " |
| 4 | We all felt happy about this and began to walk towards a distant wood , but as we approached it we saw two figures emerging : the priest we had come to see arm in arm with an attractive girl . |
| 5 | Clare baked nothing that could be found at the local baker and charged what she considered exorbitant prices , which people seemed happy to pay in cash . |
| 6 | The foundations of interviewing lie in the mundane observation that individuals can report on what they feel , are , have , tell others about their lives , disclose what their hopes and fears are , offer their opinions , state what they believe in , say what they did last week , how much they spend on food , who they see regularly , and so on ; in short , they can impart masses of information about themselves . |
| 7 | D' ya know what I watched last night ? |
| 8 | Do you know what she said last night , after I 'd told her what Dieter and I were planning for next week ? |
| 9 | It denied denying what it called groundless accusations about embassy involvement in the attack . |
| 10 | Instead , he used what he called mimed dance or danced mime , insisting , when asked fur an explanation , that there was a subtle difference between them , ‘ only one of degree ’ . |
| 11 | I told them I had some wine and we all came back . |
| 12 | The corollary to that sad case actually was when after we 'd moved them we got another phone call six months lad er later from this very lady who was leaving the house and moving out . |
| 13 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 14 | ‘ He told me it happened 10 days earlier . |
| 15 | ‘ You told me you had another date — what was the point in my hanging around ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The dairyman told me you hated old families . ’ |
| 17 | ’ Fred never told me you did that sort of thing . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If somebody told me he disappeared some time on Friday night I would n't be surprised . ’ |
| 19 | Kenny told me he trained this morning , but was still feeling the injury , and that there was no point in him coming . |
| 20 | ( She seemed to me to be about eighteen years old , although as we walked along she told me she had five children , all happily married . ) |
| 21 | She says that the bailiffs came very early and told everyone they had 10 minutes to get out . |
| 22 | Remember I told you he had that job checking street-lamps ? |
| 23 | He picked her up in his car after Mrs Dean told him she had some news from his ex-wife Debbie , Geoffrey Dean 's sister and a former beauty queen . |
| 24 | I told him I had twenty-two men with me , armed with fourteen rifles , as well as my own three rifles and shotgun . |
| 25 | She did n't catch what he said — his words too soft and indistinct — but his half-grin told her it had smutty connotations . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ She even shook my hand a second time after I told her I had full-blown AIDS . ’ |
| 27 | A few days ago , they had had a long and intense discussion about acting , and he had read through some scenes with her , and told her she had great talent and great beauty . |
| 28 | It made her feel that he did n't mind everyone knowing she was his girlfriend , and he was really sweet to her in bed , told her she had lovely hair and said she must never , ever cut it , it was so beautiful , and then he began to talk about Therese , saying how cruel it was that he had carried the company all these years and now , just because she was the Direktor 's favourite — he snorted at this point and said he really did believe Therese must have been old Franz 's mistress years ago in Vienna — he was being treated like a pariah , no consideration , everyone being rude and unkind to him , Therese allowed to do just what she liked on the stage even though she 'd been no-one before she came to Hochhauser . |
| 29 | Something about Adam Burns told her he had great powers of perception — she 'd do her own case no good at all by letting him know how deeply unsettling she found his questions . |
| 30 | It was in no way intense , and indeed coming from such a figure it could not help but appear a little maternal ; Mrs Hill did not seem to discover anything odd in her own attitude , and would consult Clara 's opinion without any attempts at subterfuge or bravado ; she would defer to Clara 's position in the class by outrageously open remarks such as " Now , Clara , you 're the only girl likely to remember what I said last week " , or " Well , I suppose I 'm wasting my breath on all but Clara Maugham . " |