Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I got to charge you for the call-out , ’ said the cop . |
2 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
3 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
4 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
5 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
6 | done it , she said I was reading it here and I meant to ask you for the , she said , anyway when he come back I said have you found them out , alright , he said I 've had a go he said |
7 | Erm , I mean , he wrote a lot , I saw him church on Sunday and I did thank him for the letter |
8 | 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 . |
9 | erm I ca n't hear for Dorothy 's car , what did you say ? is he going I think I 'd better I said thank you for the cake |
10 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
11 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
12 | I had invited him for a meal , and he left around midnight . ’ |
13 | And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette . |
14 | I had bought her for a song , then spent a fortune restoring her and , when my term of service expired and I could afford to become the gypsy-sailor I had always wanted to be , I left the Marines and made Masquerade my new home . |
15 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
16 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |
17 | I had known him for a number of years . |
18 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
19 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
20 | As I stood watching him for a few seconds and looking at the damage to his farm buildings and the dead and wounded cattle around the orchard , I thought to myself . |
21 | I wanted to thank you for the wonderful pair of walking boots — a prize from the February issue of Outdoor Action . |
22 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
23 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
24 | As she did so she seemed to notice me for the first time . |
25 | She decided to leave it for a while . |
26 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
27 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
28 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
29 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
30 | She was seized with a desire to feel his hand on her breast again , as she had felt it for a fleeting second months ago . |