Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terry rightly told me I went down the wrong I was looking for names rather than the dots . |
| 2 | Val Orford told me he felt much the same way . |
| 3 | McLeish expressed qualified enthusiasm and Charlie assured him he felt exactly the same about his younger brother . |
| 4 | You 're being asked erm you told us you rang up the Assistant Chief Constable who gave you the authority to carry out the armed operation . |
| 5 | you know she told me about it , she says I think I must mention it and I said okay I wo n't do it any more and she said oh please do it , we need you to do it she said especially the letter formation , she says what just try and encourage him to write any old letters , just to make sure that he can form them without copying them |
| 6 | McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’ |
| 7 | And I think the way we did it we marked down the three shops we wanted to do and make sure you do those three shops . |
| 8 | South West engineers were called in to try and to trace the leak in the mains pipe and after identifying it they carried out the repair work on Saturday and Sunday , but while at the scene early on Friday they smelled gas , and the |
| 9 | Graham Sutherland , opposite a whole page of contacts , enthuses in a 1946 letter : ‘ Your photographs are wonderfully good ; easily the best we have ever had taken , and I can see how important was the time and care which you took over the composition and lighting and the idea … |