Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I bumped into her one evening when I was out fetching Dad twopenn'orth of twist .
2 I bumped into him four weeks later and he said , ‘ Oi , you made it all up ’ and I swallowed something sharp and jagged , shrivelled like a salted snail and said , ‘ Yeah I did ’ .
3 She actually I have to be I 've been to her house and she lives in the middle of nowhere I wo n't tell you where , she lives in the middle of nowhere in fact I drove past it three times before we found it .
4 I get up on my skates and dance to my left , in exactly the style I learned from him 25 years before .
5 and I said to her one night , and we bought those bags of sweets , it was ninety nine pee for about forty
6 I said to him one day .
7 ‘ You 're losing your hair , Will , ’ I said to him one day .
8 er , now he does n't like to talk about it you see , and I said to him one day look Paul for god sake , oh , he 'll tell his mum , but he does n't like to talk about it to me
9 ‘ If I said to Robert once , I said to him fifty times , ’ his great-uncle was grumbling .
10 What as as I said to you twenty percent of the messages a word sounds the same .
11 I had at Carrans Cort blown down 30 great ealmes which had in them 50 tunes of timber . ’
12 ‘ I love it when you do that … ’ she whispered to him one day as they made love , and he laughed softly , looking down at her , such warmth in his face that her heart stopped and her smile faded .
13 She came to me one day and asked me if I would stand for the council , which I did .
14 Well , there were n't so many old people then when we came here we were classed as one of the oldest people because er they were all very young people and you were talking about Dame Leah Manning and she came to me one day and she said we 're going to have a problem on the town because it 's a very young town .
15 ‘ So she worked with you five years ago ? ’
16 ‘ You do n't even know the full extent of what you did to me six years ago .
17 Perhaps Mr Woolf had overheard that classic remark by a member of the public who said to me one day when we were negotiating the locks of the Caledonian canal in Venturous , " I did n't know we had Inland Revenue Cutters . "
18 Three a year which was very nice and er oh well whilst I was there , you see , erm I landed up in , in Peel because I was going on a and she said to me one day this Miss er what are you doing today ?
19 You owe me , Mr Scott , except that nothing can ever compensate for what you stole from me six years ago . ’
20 We attended between us five workshops and found all of them lacking in a clear overall framework/direction which would at least set an agenda for future constructive discussion ( let alone action ) .
21 We dealt with him two years ago and we 'd like to speak and and we 're we 're looking for a repeat
22 And the Moors entered Castille , in great power , for there came with them five Kings , and they past above Burgos , and crost the mountains of Oca , and plundered Carrion , and Vilforado , and Saint Domingo de la Calzada , and Logroño , and Najara , and all that land ; and they carried away many captives both male and female , and brood mares , and flocks of all kinds .
23 And on the morrow they began to attack the city , and they fought against it three days strenuously ; and the Moors received great loss , for they came blindly up to the walls and were slain there .
24 In 1798 he exhibited No. 447 , ‘ Derwent Water from Castle Rigg ’ , and in 1801 , No. 649 , ‘ View from Kirby Lonsdale Churchyard Westmorland ’ , but this appears to be the last entry , probably because once he had moved to Ambleside he concentrated on his one man shows in the area .
25 It finished for me three years ago .
26 I knew that some of his friends were into drugs , but I did n't know Ryan was until he collapsed on me one day .
27 and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower .
28 There was , but it said on it Twelve foot six .
29 ‘ Tell me more about your country , ’ he said to me one day .
30 ‘ What are we going to do , Toby ? ’ he said to me one day .
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