Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Superintendent said to me one day , ‘ You do n't like this fellow very well . ’ |
| 2 | Paul Hentzner , a German traveller , has described the scene in the Presence Chamber as the Queen passed through it one Sunday on her way to chapel . |
| 3 | The guard shouted to him three times but he took no notice at all . |
| 4 | Well I heard what that bloke said to you last time when I went before , do n't worry , once you 've paid for it once you 've paid it they 'll sort it out from there . |
| 5 | They tell me he near strangled himself with the bowstring when the stave snapped on him this afternoon . ’ |
| 6 | But as a first-half Merson free kick ricocheted to him eight yards from goal he miscued . |
| 7 | ‘ You really should be riding a horse , ’ Artemis 's stepmother said to her one morning as they waited for the hounds to move off . |
| 8 | The other hands stopped dead when my shovel fell on it some years ago . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Good pony you 've got there , young lady , ’ Artemis 's father said to her some time later , as they walked quietly on . |
| 10 | But this poem seemed to us incontrovertible proof of our poetic twinship . |
| 11 | Another door opened to me last year when my daughter presented me with a gorgeous grandson , Simon , the same daughter who was instrumental in my first joining the Brownie Pack so many years ago ! |
| 12 | ‘ The Old Man trod in it this time ! ’ |
| 13 | A strange thing happened to me this morning . |
| 14 | Fortune smiled on me that night , and what could have been a disaster was averted . |
| 15 | ‘ It all too big for politics , ’ as a former Cabinet Minister said to us last week . |
| 16 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 17 | But he answered all the difficult questions that Harvey Smith 's younger son asked of him last night to defeat a flying round from Philip Heffer on Viewpoint . |
| 18 | The solution came to her one evening when Nahum commented on her excessive pallor . |
| 19 | ‘ If you want to do something useful , ’ my mother said to me one day , ‘ you can help me propagate the cactuses . ’ |