Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came across it the other day , I was slightly embarrassed . |
| 2 | When I visited Bishopshalt school with my hon. Friend , I saw for myself the superb improvement in equipment and facilities that it has managed to achieve only shortly after attaining grant-maintained status . |
| 3 | I pierced the mask of the temporal that is a facade made hideous by the graffiti of desires and I saw behind it the real of human beings , that is , a masterpiece on the wheel of Eternity . |
| 4 | I looked at it the other day and I thought I must remember to ask . |
| 5 | I looked in my the other day and I thought I thought now I have n't got it now . |
| 6 | About the homework bit er I thought about it the other day and obviously mine was n't brought up we 're having a set detention night are n't we ? |
| 7 | Yeah , I remembered it while I was walking round the shop , cos the more I yeah , the more I thought about it the worse I got when I stood by the machine . |
| 8 | Even Terry Lewis hinted at it when I spoke to him the other evening . |
| 9 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 10 | Although there are no hon. Members from Scottish constituencies in their places at the moment , my hon. Friend the Minister made a passing reference to Scotland , which is one of the issues that I discussed with him the other evening . |
| 11 | I said to him the other day , well four weeks ago . |
| 12 | I said to him the other morning I said do that again I said look , I 'll get you out of bed . |
| 13 | he 's , he 's like this , he 's got to get on , get everything done , that 's what I said to you the other day , leave |
| 14 | What someone said to me the other night is that you 've got 75% of it and that 's good . |
| 15 | I ran into him the other day . ’ |
| 16 | I wrote for him the following poem ; it seems to me now rather jejune , but it was the spontaneous overflow from a heart both proud and anxious , and not greatly concerned with turning out a literary exemplar : Parachutists ( for L.G.C. ) |
| 17 | The more Creggan himself stared at it the bigger and stranger it became , looming out of the mist , its grey shrouds entwined round it . |
| 18 | I 'm sure your friend will put a good word in for you , ’ which brought from her the sharp retort : ‘ Yes , he will ! |
| 19 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 20 | You drove past me the other day when I drov , was it you ? |
| 21 | Some modern parents would be horrified at this ritual but my mother had the strong belief that as death comes to all , the sooner you learnt about it the better . |
| 22 | Apart from this minor eccentricity — and I knew old people often became eccentric — she seemed to me the same as she had always been : vague in practical matters but sharp-witted enough in other ways , and eager to talk about what was happening in the world . |
| 23 | Breathlessly she watched for what the moving flags would say next . |
| 24 | Her tone teasing , she added , ‘ If you went about it the right way I 'm positive you could have her eating out of your hand in no time at all . |
| 25 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 26 | She was immediately recognisable , though she 'd had the scarf on as she sped past me the only other time I 'd seen her . |
| 27 | She had about her the rich glow of a woman who excelled at everything which constituted a woman 's work . |
| 28 | The largest section under David Stirling , who had with him the repaired ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ , headed for the escarpment above Fuka . |
| 29 | Cos she said to me the other day , she said have you been in my room and touched ? |
| 30 | she said to me the other day , has my mummy been in ? |