Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |
| 2 | No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago . |
| 3 | Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man . |
| 4 | There was an elderly man about 80 sitting on a seat , so I showed him an old photograph , and he remembered the lady we were with . |
| 5 | I could see that she was scowling and stiffening into a Mark 2 temper , so I gave her an encouraging smile — which raised her , as I expected , to a Mark 3 . |
| 6 | I was scared of them but I was n't going to let them get away so I gave them a good run for their money . |
| 7 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 8 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 9 | ‘ And I sold them the best . |
| 10 | My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell . |
| 11 | I bought him one Christmas years and oh hey , we were just married and I ordered him an extending ladder from the Co-op |
| 12 | And I kept it the same and that 's When we bought this in nineteen fifty four , there was a lot of alterations to be done . |
| 13 | Looking back later , Helen recalled three things about this new life , so different from the unhappy days when she and Edward discovered that his passionate letters to her were being read by Mrs Andrews : ‘ The beauty of it delighted me , and I thought it the perfect setting for these people with their freedom of manner and thought … . |
| 14 | It did n't leave much time for going out to play , and I resented it a great deal . |
| 15 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 16 | Then I , I put it in a saucepan and I stewed it the next |
| 17 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 18 | ‘ Tom and I saw it the other day , ’ she was saying . |
| 19 | And they , the company wrote back and said it 's so much a policy and looks reasonable and I sent them a bloody cheque you see |
| 20 | shepherds pie yesterday and I did them a few chips with it as well . |
| 21 | I pretended it was Annie 's hair we was putting on the tree , and I called her a little angel , but she got upset about that , so I stopped . |
| 22 | He sank into a fireside chair and I poured him a small medicinal quart of Absinthe to steady his nerves . |
| 23 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 24 | I therefore completed to his satisfaction all the forms he gave me , and I gave him a detailed written description of our proposal , and a revised working drawing showing greater detail , with both of which he seemed satisfied . |
| 25 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
| 26 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 27 | I said to them it was placing the team and the ARFU in a terrible situation and I gave them a 5.30 pm deadline otherwise the tour was off . |
| 28 | She has got in ( and out of ) problems with drugs , alcohol and a quasi-religious cult : ’ I was brainwashed and I gave them an enormous amount of money , ’ she says with a shrug . |
| 29 | Absolutely they 're reading it with you so they 're with you so you 're you 're holding their interest even though you 're not actually saying anything , yeah , and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once you 've once you 're written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once I once I put the red lines around the red boxes round there and I gave you the first demonstration of the Aldershot method I stood here okay . |
| 30 | I had been his guest in the air very briefly before when I was taken up to see Low Birk Hatt as a bird would see it , and I found it a thrilling experience , quite the best way to travel . |