Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some of these adults , aged from their twenties to forties , expert counselling on a one to one basis is helping them to go a great deal further . |
| 2 | With these words ringing in my ear I became a little girl again — hurt , angry and rejected . |
| 3 | May I make a relevant point please ? |
| 4 | Indeed when the time came to leave Germany I made a mental decision never to return . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh God , I made a bad mistake there . |
| 6 | Now that was the point I made a few moments ago . |
| 7 | In a survey on shopping which I made a few years ago one of my student interviewers was questioning an old lady about the grocer 's shop she used . |
| 8 | And I the same for , when Lindsey was a wee girl and I mean a wee girl like , I 'd pick wee things for her I 'd of loved my mummy to buy me . |
| 9 | I mean a brilliant idea really . |
| 10 | Yeah I mean a few months ago I had absolutely no idea at all what |
| 11 | I realized a long time ago why you were so set on Charlie and me marrying , and I 'm very fond of him , and I 'd like to go on living at Lady Mead for the rest of my life . |
| 12 | He points out that if I tear a living system apart into its component atoms , I kill it . |
| 13 | If you can not find someone to conduct a mock interview then leave a tape-recorder on while you practise some of your more important answers and the way in which you describe yourself to the interviewer . |
| 14 | Yeah , he said I got a thousand pound well I 'll ring around , he said I got a thousand o off my , I saved a thousand pounds on my roof he said I thought bloody hell , how much cost costing him ! |
| 15 | This meant Sorley had to lean further out of the van to grab it and as the door opened wider I got a good look inside . |
| 16 | ‘ Look , darling , I got a hunting-pink lipstick yesterday and some rose-geranium soap . |
| 17 | I got a new book today so but she taught that is was ha ! |
| 18 | pretty dress I got a pretty dress too . |
| 19 | I maintained a straighter course now but perpetually wanted to stop , and so had to ration myself to two minutes rest in every fifteen , and ten minutes on the hour . |
| 20 | I built a little village downstream from the dam , complete with roads and a bridge over the remnant of the burn , and a church . |
| 21 | I 've had a couple of letters asking me whether I ever managed to give up smoking as I promised a few months ago . |
| 22 | I seen a blind man once — he 'd got a stick so he could tap the pavement so he did n't fall down no holes . |
| 23 | I want a good card here . |
| 24 | Come on I want a nice drink please . |
| 25 | Mummy I want a tiny bit more please . |
| 26 | If I want a different sound altogether I have a collection of Fender amps . |
| 27 | and what we 've got to do is er er as I said to Ed a little while ago , I mentioned a little while ago , we need to gather the other thin section |
| 28 | Apart from the considerations which I mentioned a few moments ago , it would indeed . |
| 29 | Er we have n't used very much of it this year I mean I think er I mentioned a few weeks ago the , the question of trips out perhaps in the spring to do fish and that , we could consider er we do n't want to just go er accumulating money for the sake of it erm , we want to get some benefit out of the money we 've got . |
| 30 | Someone reported a long time ago that an old lady , on her deathbed , was heard to say : ‘ Weel , it will be a great blessing to hear at last the real truth of the Gowrie conspiracy ’ . |