Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do you think I told her those stories , the other night , about demons getting their comeuppances ? |
| 2 | Well well I say I rang them first time . |
| 3 | I tried I saw him one day on , I crept up in my and I took it out of the window and all I 've got is the . |
| 4 | I believed I owed him some debt . |
| 5 | But er , I met a chap this one day , he says well I , I saw you this morning taking milk out , he says I saw you this afternoon taking coal out , he said I see you tonight going playing tennis . |
| 6 | but with her being ill it , she says it gave him another sense of duty that |
| 7 | I hope he paid you this week then . |
| 8 | Whether he thought it would be more unnerving than a show of rage or whether he imagined he owed me civil consideration , I was uncertain . |
| 9 | Fininvest , in true Italian tradition , is a secretive family-owned company and Mr Berlusconi had always said he preferred it that way . |
| 10 | I seem to vaguely remember you gave me some directions last time . |
| 11 | Remember I asked you this morning to just just after lunch to jot down what it was that you need to improve on just as you 're setting the clock just say something like by the end of this talk I 'd like you to congratulate me on having moved around a bit more having not put me hands in me pockets , whatever it might be . |
| 12 | and remember I gave you this word , that was suc succours |
| 13 | I know I saw it this morning it 's really smart is n't it ? |
| 14 | Er er , you know I told you that thingy ? |
| 15 | I know I had it this morning |
| 16 | ‘ That was straight talk I gave you that time , shamus . |
| 17 | So I suppose she got it some time this week . |
| 18 | ‘ I guess we saw it that way : I did for sure . |
| 19 | so I went in to pull them out , then I rang her rang her wee fella , she came round on Friday night and collected them sorry she collected them and she could n't get them back to , till the Tuesday , Tuesday . |
| 20 | and then she kept saying they owed her some money you know |
| 21 | By so doing he gave us priceless clues for a richer , more colourful , and sometimes more dramatic , range of expression than the score could suggest without the eloquence of the two signs . |
| 22 | I thought I told you last week ! |
| 23 | I see , I thought I delivered you two cups |
| 24 | ‘ I bet she told you all sorts of tales . |
| 25 | I thought we had him last year when he lost his rag in a pub down in Kent and tried to push a glass through the landlord 's face . ’ |
| 26 | CATHERINE I do n't suppose he meant it that way . |
| 27 | But I do n't suppose he saw it that way at the time . |
| 28 | She was , he was going in her cupboard , Mrs I gather he said you stupid idiot to her . |
| 29 | No , I did n't , I , I think I wore it one day we walked to er , house , we walked round the shops . |
| 30 | I think I told you some months ago that I would be asking you to consider that |