Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
| 8 | She had asked him a few Saturdays ago if everything was all right between them . |
| 9 | She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there . |
| 10 | They were all in the kitchen where she had left them a few minutes earlier . |
| 11 | ‘ I would have signed if they had offered me a few bob more . ’ |
| 12 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 13 | He 'd given her a few sugar pieces , which she 'd taken , and even offered several pinches of snuff , which she had n't . |
| 14 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 15 | Manorial records in general concerned themselves solely with the head tenants ; the name of an undertenant might occur only incidentally , as at Long Crendon in 1535 when the vicar of Thame was presented for letting two tenements by indenture for ten years to William Byrte , from whom , in fact , he had purchased them a few years previously . |