Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone passed her a fresh joint and she took a deep drag , feeling the smoke burn her throat . |
| 2 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 3 | Oh I got her a lovely cute little teddy . |
| 4 | At first I found him a difficult subject to interview because , to paraphrase Donne , when he had done he had not done , he still had more ; and I had to learn to give him at least five seconds , grace before moving on , because his afterthoughts were often gems . |
| 5 | I do n't , cos it ai n't polite with strangers , but I give her a real nice smile instead . |
| 6 | ‘ Even if the Mad Killer epithet will be attributed to me by the media , I consider myself a rational erudite that only the arrival of the Grim Reaper has forced to take extreme acts . |
| 7 | He sank into a fireside chair and I poured him a small medicinal quart of Absinthe to steady his nerves . |
| 8 | ‘ I know what a slow comfortable screw is , Francis , ’ said Jay in her best Mae West , ‘ but I ai n't never done it against a wall . ’ |
| 9 | I am not precisely sure that I know what the right hon. Gentleman had in mind on sentencing policy , but I am happy to engage in exchanges outside . |
| 10 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
| 11 | I find it a sad small dramatic irony that Leslie never knew what I did at Bletchley , and , naturally , was unaware even of the existence of Ultra , let alone its significance in his own military enterprises . |
| 12 | I note what the right hon. and learned Gentleman says about investment . |
| 13 | I ask what the charming little wooden shed down the track is for — tools and things ? |
| 14 | ‘ I term it the Afro-centric new wave in film , ’ says Singleton . |
| 15 | Singleton : ‘ I term it the Afro-centric new wave in film ’ |
| 16 | This morning I boiled her a nice fresh egg , and she ate the lot . |
| 17 | I gave her a deep old-fashioned bow , a legacy of the East European courtesies in which I had been raised . |
| 18 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 19 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 20 | ‘ I gave him a good whacking , ’ Wally told police as he was taken away on a stretcher . |
| 21 | I therefore completed to his satisfaction all the forms he gave me , and I gave him a detailed written description of our proposal , and a revised working drawing showing greater detail , with both of which he seemed satisfied . |
| 22 | I gave him a detailed surgical report . |
| 23 | It would n't look very good if I gave you a great big rambling piece of paper now to tell you about communications |
| 24 | ‘ When the red light changed , I gave it a big welly-full . |
| 25 | I bought him a red hot , a sort of sausage on a roll with mustard . |
| 26 | I bought you a nice little savoury egg . |
| 27 | If someone bought me an expensive perfumed soap , I would save it — not believing I would ever have another — until I found it years later , grubby and odourless ! |
| 28 | And I said what a lovely little puppy , what 's her name , and it said Freda . |
| 29 | I endorse what the right hon. Gentleman said about the progress that has been made so far . |
| 30 | I wrote her a long long |