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Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I only asked him the other day
2	Erm before I sent , I only did it the other day , I regret to say any rate .
3	So I just gave them the statutory amount per tape
4	The other thing I was interested in was the increase of ele of occupational therapists and I just wondered what the realistic expectation was of being able to recruit them because as far as I know they are a scarce resource er and not easy to find .
5	But I still enjoyed it the second time .
6	I abruptly asked them the same question I had of Benjamin .
7	Recall that at the beginning of this piece I briefly discussed what the representational theory of the mind has got right : that thoughts are not simple responses , reactions or reverberations to environmental stimulation — contrasting this with the case of the thermostat which automatically switches on and off at pre-set temperatures .
8	I actually understood what the Hon. and learned Gentleman said , which is unusual , although I do not think that it contributed much to the debate .
9	so I actually took it the other way that , you know , do you just want a cup of tea .
10	True I never saw him the worse for drink , but often the better .
11	And I like Lovejoy , except I 've missed but they 're repeats , but I never saw it the first time .
12	In his absence , I afterwards asked them the same questions , and they were able to explain quite adequately .
13	Sharpe told Ziegler what he knew , which merely confirmed what the Prussian Captain had already discovered for himself .
14	I might have returned to match fishing , which never gave me the same enjoyment , even when I won , that a big fish always does , and , I hope , always will .
15	‘ But you only saw me the other night !
16	You knew from the beginning the terms of the thing , and if you tried to make it more serious than that , you only lost him the quicker .
17	‘ I liked your family very much , but you deliberately gave them the wrong impression about me , ’ she said angrily .
18	And yet she openly admitted it the other day .
19	These same people the , even when faced with the blatant facts of their mistakes , still hurl at the hapless retailer who unwittingly sold them the five 3″ goldfish that they tried to cram into a small glass bowl full of raw tapwater .
20	She was so busy talking to another woman , who was weighing onions , that she never noticed what the wee fellow was doing .
21	We always called it the posh part , because although our street carried on from it over the main road , it was like being in a different village altogether .
22	Has no one ever taught you the gracious art of how to accept help when it 's offered ? ’
23	‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that .
24	And erm , it wa , at the reception afterwards we actually paid him the fine er , a contribution to a a , a fund his church had for a painting they wanted to buy .
25	But we never knew who the other three were . ’
26	Such gentlemen freeholders could be manipulated , but they rarely considered themselves the hired retainers of a politician , whose support the latter could take for granted .
27	We shall be leaving Peking for Sian at 11.30 this evening , and the comrades have given us a rousing send off with beautiful presents including a big embroidered tablecloth and napkins , and a beautiful framed picture made out of shells , with an inscription written on it specially for & I. They also gave us the enclosed photos , which give you an idea of what life is like here .
28	They actually called me the green-eyed monster .
29	No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down .
30	For many years we sought access to him and the inner sanctum of his medieval palace , until in 1981 he finally gave us the first filmed interview ever granted by one of his line .