Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to show you the that |
| 2 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 3 | I tried to ring her the other day as going to a seminar at my solicitors office nearby and had hoped to walk up plus dog , leave Bella for duration of seminar and pick her up again = kill exercise bird with seminar stone as it were . |
| 4 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 5 | She approved of my taste and I 'd given her the right amount of money for the red coat which I st ill have n't worn . |
| 6 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 7 | Erm now if I 'd given you the same thing and you 'd |
| 8 | I felt as if I 'd handed him a loaded shotgun and said shoot . ’ |
| 9 | Would you believe that he said I 've got to work on the aeroplane this week , I 've got the week off , I 've got to work on the aeroplane , I , you know , I shall be alright , down the airfield , er on the Wednesday he arrived to see how we were getting on , complaining like made because he had n't been able to find where the cottage was , I said but I 'd left you a detailed map , |
| 10 | I 'd left you the full address , and the telephone number and a fully detailed map . |
| 11 | ‘ She agreed eight o'clock when I spoke to her yesterday , after I 'd offered her every other hour of the day . |
| 12 | I 'd forgotten what a thin face Dad had got — how old he was . |
| 13 | I 'd forgotten what a delicious meal tea could be ; and sitting there I felt invaded by the envy of the man who lives in an institution , and has to put up with institution meals and institution everything else , for the rich private life of the established . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing ! |
| 16 | By this time Desmond had nearly stopped on the flarepath and I decided to give him a wide berth . |
| 17 | So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience , |
| 18 | ‘ In true Hitchcock tradition , I always make one appearance in each series of Rumpole , but this time I decided to give myself a speaking part , ’ he says . |
| 19 | There were some hills around me , so I decided to build myself a little house on one of them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Because I started doing it a long time ago |
| 22 | ‘ I meant to ask you a long time ago and I forgot to . |
| 23 | I had n't been to the dump for a while , and it was about time I went to see what the good folk of Porteneil had thrown out . |
| 24 | I kept kicking it the other day and I thought well it feels ever so light , I thought there was quite a few left . |
| 25 | Life in the rainforest is brutish and short , and most of the Kayan people I spoke to consider themselves a good deal better off than their forefathers — thanks to the logging . |
| 26 | In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe , but I did not try to escape in it . |
| 27 | I did n't deliver , to tell a lie , but I did tell you a slight wrong thing . |
| 28 | I give them a , I did give them a good rinse afterwards though . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |