Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | It was an easy entry into conversation and , after going through the statistics dear to a teacher 's heart ( hours per week - twenty-five : pupils in a class — thirty ) , I asked him about the problems of teaching Spanish here . |
2 | I asked him about the girls and he told me to offer them drinks , talk to them , spend 1,000 francs on them , and I would be away . |
3 | I asked her about the changes in her life since the NI featured her in 1979 . |
4 | ‘ You remember me , I asked you about the meters … well my car was just here on this corner and … ’ |
5 | no I were gon na do , I got them for the days |
6 | ‘ I caught it in the banisters as I turned the corner , ’ I lied . |
7 | One evening , perched in his landing window , he shot towards my wife with an air rifle and I reported him to the police . |
8 | I met him at Aunt Alicia 's because he rented half the house , and then I helped him with the horses . |
9 | Someone reported them to the authorities . |
10 | As soon as I told her about the things that had happened , she knew . |
11 | I told her about the hops . |
12 | And I told her about the timeslips , and how I had found myself back in her time . |
13 | I told her of the storms I had known as a child in America , of the sea lifting the paving stones in Penzance , of the ice storms in New England where each twig , each leaf is coated in ice , and of how , when the sun shines , it is as though the world were crystallised , as though nature were encapsulated in a diamond . |
14 | I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch . |
15 | I told him about the frogs and all he could think of was socks ! ’ |
16 | Remember that thing I told you about the bones the other night ? |
17 | I told you about the pains , ’ — she is holding her stomach — ‘ and the thing I ca n't bear is this week the children have them too . ’ |
18 | At a particularly exciting point I dropped it between the seats in front , and insisted that my parents ask the people to look for it . |
19 | I threw mine to the Greyhounds . |
20 | I threw it on the cobble-stones and Elizabeth cried . |
21 | ‘ I threw you to the crocodiles to save my job . ’ |
22 | I dug it into the roses instead . ’ |
23 | And I was only doing up here but er , that 's good enough , sort of thing I kissed her on the lips a couple |
24 | I followed him down the stairs , listening to him curse and shout ; in the front hall he tried to get a jacket on over his clothes but could n't get it to fit over his hand holding the gun . |
25 | MY HUSBAND bought me a watch as a birthday present , but it kept losing time and I returned it after the holidays . |
26 | I watched him on the Lions tour and he 's a very good player . |
27 | I watched him down the stairs from the landing . |
28 | I watched them through the windows . |
29 | And then I lost him among the boulders and small trees that marked the course of the torrent . |
30 | Hooked is the title of the latest collection of reviews by film critic nonpareil Pauline Kael , ninth in the essential series which began with 1965 I Lost It At The Movies . |