Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 2 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 3 | ‘ I tried to tell her in a matter-of-fact way that when you die you leave your body behind and go to Heaven . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 5 | I was clumsy and had to pick up a couple of notes from the floor and wipe the bags where I 'd touched them with a handkerchief . |
| 6 | ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’ |
| 7 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 8 | ‘ Liz lost a winning I 'd given her on a horse . |
| 9 | Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me . |
| 10 | You know , cos I 'd got it at a P P C as well , for national conference . |
| 11 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd spotted them in a second-hand shop and immediately began saving feverishly to make them mine before anyone else got their hands on them . |
| 13 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 14 | ‘ So , when I happened to see you in a clinch in your office , you 're telling me she 'd lost her balance ? ’ |
| 15 | I hated having him as a bed-mate . |
| 16 | I threatened to put him on a discipline charge because whenever the drunks were turning out , you 'd find him in the station writing some trivial bike without a light . |
| 17 | SIR — On coming into £40,000 I decided to put it into a trust for my grandchildren , to be paid out as each reaches the age of 24 years . |
| 18 | So when I bought a dog I decided to name him after a man I admired so much . ’ |
| 19 | When I started to touch her in a sexual way I asked her if she liked it . |
| 20 | I took her by both hands and I started to swing her in a circle , singing as I went , shouting the words of the song over and over again . |
| 21 | I offered to supply him with a list of Italian engineers and companies with specialised knowledge in the construction of tunnels through hills . |
| 22 | I kept examining it in a fond fever ) . |
| 23 | Marsh said : ‘ I do n't blame Kim for being angry — I did leave her in a bad financial situation . ’ |
| 24 | Although it is not a mountain tent I did take it on a high camp with a family group . |
| 25 | I did take you for a couple staying there together , and normally I would have retreated smartly and come back here again , but for what had already happened . |
| 26 | I did see him as a six year old child . |
| 27 | Well again , I , I , I had to do it as a kid but I did n't afterwards but er , I er , tell you about this chap and I even went back and told him . |
| 28 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 29 | I killed her as surely as if I had stabbed her with a knife , shot her with a gun , squeezed her neck between my hands . |
| 30 | In fact , the next paper I sent him was called , if I remember rightly , ‘ The Poet — the Public — the Faith ’ , and I had dispatched it to a review called The Green Quarterly , the only recollection of which I have is that it was quarterly and that it was green . |