Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] a [det] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ But I want to give you a little help with your wicket keeping . |
2 | So er to look at it er another way , w I , I 'll stop before I go back to the erm slides , because I want to show you a few on you know erm er the way that money 's worked over the last forty years , but if you look at index-linked certificates , cos somebody mentioned that , are they worth having ? |
3 | Erm I came to see you a few weeks ago at night you know er It 's just like I 'm just filling up , you know , with mucus and stuff and coughing and I had er no sleep for about a week . |
4 | To make life easier for us all I started to teach her a few commands , but I found she would obey any order before it was given . |
5 | I did phone her a few weeks ago and she said , ooh I 'll have to see you on Friday in Mould you know get a |
6 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
7 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
8 | I 've pressed it a few times by accident and then needed it . |
9 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
10 | ‘ Yes , I 've met him a few times , ’ she admitted . |
11 | If you 're talking about learning theory , well I 've given you a few names . |
12 | A vowel No I 've heard it a few times |
13 | ‘ I 've brought you a few things , ’ she began , taking up her basket . |
14 | ‘ I 've brought you a few things , ’ she said , glancing back to where her basket stood on the floor . |
15 | Now if you say it in an ex , in a , in a do you want to give me a few examples ? |
16 | But Bodie softened his voice , teased Liz mercilessly , until she agreed to meet him a few minutes later , to be taken to Linda Stone 's school . |
17 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
18 | All right , so you design a cup and rod device to compress a cat 's testicle and crush it , and when you 've done it a few thousand times over word gets out and you have protests and pressure . |
19 | Listening , as you become more comfortable and you become , you 've done it a few times you know what you 're gon na have to say and then you , you er , you listen more carefully to the answers . |
20 | She had asked him a few Saturdays ago if everything was all right between them . |
21 | She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there . |
22 | They were all in the kitchen where she had left them a few minutes earlier . |
23 | ‘ Before we retroscend allow me a few prefatory remarks on your pants . |
24 | We 've given you a few hints how to say them , dance to them , put great big eight foot wide papier mâché masks on to do them if you want . |
25 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
26 | There , that manoeuvre is known as gybing but really it 's as simple as that , sailing downwind you do n't have to change course very often , unlike when we 're sailing upwind with tacking but we need to show you a few more demonstrations about it in quick succession . |
27 | Yeah because what they did they they 've done it a few a times though different people , look and see how far it is before it 's a blind spot . |
28 | ‘ I would have signed if they had offered me a few bob more . ’ |
29 | He has angered us a few times , Sheridan , Vinny , Eric , Batty all gone but we 're still up there , second in the league . |
30 | He has since got used to only having one sighted eye although it has given him a few recurring infections . |