Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got to charge you for the call-out , ’ said the cop . |
| 2 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 3 | Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay |
| 4 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 5 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 6 | I hit violently at the door , I tried to force it with the nail , and managed to hurt my hand . |
| 7 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 8 | I tried to phone you during the week and mum said where is my little son ? |
| 9 | I tried to picture him under the sheet . |
| 10 | I knew Ellen hated the cold , and I tried to warn her of the conditions we might expect in those latitudes . |
| 11 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 12 | I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall . |
| 13 | I 'd kept it in the bottom of my bra-and-pants drawer ever since I stole it from Dad . |
| 14 | I knew that I 'd loved you from the moment we first met and I 'd never stopped . ’ |
| 15 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 16 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 17 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 18 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 19 | ‘ I told her I 'd seen you over the weekend , ’ she relayed . |
| 20 | I 'd seen it along the end of the track . |
| 21 | Anyway I went there and I was impressed , I 'd seen it from the ship and I completely concur with everything that 's been said . |
| 22 | I suppose the fact that I 'd made it at the age of 14 was important because it meant I would go a long way in athletics . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 24 | I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’ |
| 25 | I 'd dragged her into the storeroom and begged her to take me to London , saying my family would n't allow me to go without her . |
| 26 | ‘ When I told Martin that I was 10 weeks ' pregnant with my second child , he enjoyed telling people how clever I was because I 'd arranged it between the interims and the final results ! ’ |
| 27 | I retrieved my stash from where I 'd taped it under the steering column and my cigarettes and green Rizla papers from the dashboard . |
| 28 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 29 | For answer , I picked up the newspaper from where I 'd thrown it on the desk . |
| 30 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |