Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion . |
2 | I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump . |
3 | I , I found it with utmost ease . |
4 | I caught him by cute observation ; |
5 | I told him about Bad Money — another short , no big deal . |
6 | And unfortunately , I told him in graphic detail , and thereby of course , lost a contract , because he turned out to be the most senior person in the room , and he did not enjoy being humiliated in that way . |
7 | I told him in great detail . |
8 | A voice from the wall beside him said : ‘ Would you understand if I told you about molecular breakdown and reassembly from a wide range of raw materials ? ’ |
9 | The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time . |
10 | This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about . |
11 | I soaked it in hot water and antiseptic and I drank a little more whisky . |
12 | A cream-coloured dress of mine got covered with rust and , although I soaked it in biological liquid , it did n't get rid of the stain . |
13 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
14 | The Forest boss said : ‘ I watched him in five-a-side training and it was as if he 'd never been away . |
15 | I saw her with black hair and I told her it was great , but she prefers to be blonde . |
16 | I took it on full time , ’ she said . |
17 | ‘ I took it by popular demand , ’ said Kelly . |
18 | I put her in cold water till the ambulance came , but I did n't know what else to do ! ’ |
19 | My sister and I put him to good use . |
20 | So I knitted it in double jacquard . |
21 | Actually I preferred her with white hair . ’ |
22 | BELVILLE : I know , my dear , I left you in great anxiety but 't is an anxiety you have brought upon yourself , and I have not been easy ever since I parted from you . |
23 | I shot them in cold blood and I enjoyed every minute of it … |
24 | I wrote it on orange paper in blue ink and it all went horribly wrong when I photocopied it so I 've put an agenda on there right . |
25 | I wanted it to forward wind , I think I pressed the wrong button . |
26 | Several respondents commented that both foster parents and children had enjoyed participating in an exercise which provided them with concrete proof of achievements and which sought to monitor progress systematically . |
27 | Anything which involved her in unnecessary enmeshment with Vitor d'Arcos would be sturdily fended off . |
28 | That time , Topaz heard something in the marquis 's voice which filled her with tremulous hope . |
29 | Disappointed at the value put on his company by the stock market , which compared it with other electronics groups , he decided to spin-off Vodafone and Chubb . |
30 | If anything the gulf separating them from an outside world which uprooted families and whole villages for labour on distant farms , or worse still in factories and mines , which extracted taxes , recruits and grain , which subjected them to constant brutality and humiliation grew steadily wider . |