Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 2 | Cos I got help her with that . |
| 3 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
| 4 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 5 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 6 | I tried to think of when I 'd seen him after that , apart from when we got our degrees — him proud and posing for the family album , me drunk and disorderly . |
| 7 | Now I said Mr Nichol I 'd to take you to that erm but the only thing is it 's after the so I do n't know how you feel if you 'd if you would rather see a performance before the exam , or you would rather see that one after the exam , or two . |
| 8 | As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink . |
| 9 | Well yeah but , cos I mean I 'd left it on all night before . |
| 10 | When I met Kirk and started to work with him , I sort of felt I 'd known him in some other life . |
| 11 | ‘ I came to see you about some notes I sent your husband . |
| 12 | A typical example — and there are many of these — was when he patiently sat through a high level Air Ministry conference listening to the Mosquito being castigated for its poor night flying qualities ( because of the glare from the exhausts ) , and Boscombe Down recommended that it should never be flown at night , the chairman , as an afterthought , suggested Bennett contribute his views : " I wish someone hid told me about all these faults ' , he replied , " because I have been flying the Masse on OBOE night trials with excellent results " . |
| 13 | Since all had been well before Kirsty went into hospital to have her appendix removed — and since many people have a very real terror of hospitals in general — I decided to regress her to that particular time . |
| 14 | Like many people , however , I decided to leave it for another day . |
| 15 | ‘ I meant to tell you about that . |
| 16 | I managed to dissuade her from that and we settled on lunch together the following day . |
| 17 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 18 | ‘ And Miguel , now that I look back on your little masquerade , you know I think I did enjoy it after all ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Someone did ask us for some nude photos as well , ’ frowns Sam , desperately , ‘ But I reckon that was just people trying it on more than anything else . ’ |
| 20 | When I said thank you for that . |
| 21 | aha , well I 'm , I 'm doing er couple of Oxos and I had to thicken it with some self raising flour , it was alright |
| 22 | Mm , mm I 'd of put them in the , even with these new glasses I these dark ones , you know the dark ones I had to put them on this morning I had to put these dark glasses on cos the light hurt me eyes , so I had to put these on |
| 23 | Believe me , if I had seen her in any other place , I would have dismissed her as a witch from a mummer 's play . |
| 24 | I had never met the head of governors , Dr Arnold Barton , though I had seen him at several functions , a thin , tall , stern-faced , lantern-jawed streak of a man who rarely seemed to smile . |
| 25 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
| 26 | Was I sure I had seen it at all ? |
| 27 | But I was sure I had seen it after that , slinking , a shadow cat in the tree shadows , black as Egypt 's night . |
| 28 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 29 | ‘ I had to take him on more or less from the first . |
| 30 | It was such a collective experience that John was n't mine any more , I had to share him with all these people , each with different motivations and reasons for being here . |