Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to tell her in a matter-of-fact way that when you die you leave your body behind and go to Heaven . |
| 2 | I 'd kept it in the bottom of my bra-and-pants drawer ever since I stole it from Dad . |
| 3 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 4 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 5 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 6 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I had a thought for no-one 's but your ears , That you were beautiful and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love , That it had all seemed happy … |
| 9 | ‘ So , when I happened to see you in a clinch in your office , you 're telling me she 'd lost her balance ? ’ |
| 10 | I recall , for instance , the occasion around that time I happened to encounter her in the back corridor . |
| 11 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 12 | I decided to telephone him in the hope that he was still soothing his habitual hangover with buckets of orange juice , followed by gallons of coffee . |
| 13 | I decided to phone him in the evening . |
| 14 | I decided to keep them in the count because they gave an interesting sidelight on the history of lending libraries in England with some specific examples , and there were not too many of them . |
| 15 | When I started to touch her in a sexual way I asked her if she liked it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So I put it up and I gave to like that , I went put them in the water ! |
| 18 | I went to fetch it in the van . |
| 19 | I kept examining it in a fond fever ) . |
| 20 | Marsh said : ‘ I do n't blame Kim for being angry — I did leave her in a bad financial situation . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 22 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 23 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 24 | I had lost it in the sea when swimming away from the ship . |
| 25 | It was the first time I had seen her in a pale colour — a light grey dress which made her seem shadowy . |
| 26 | I thought I had seen it in a Met report , some time back . |
| 27 | I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy . |
| 28 | but I never had anything , I just went from one to the another , and I had to take it in the hall one day and I was n't , I was never very good at maths anyway , not that kind of maths . |
| 29 | ‘ I had to keep you in the dark . |
| 30 | I felt I ought to have gone in earlier ; that now I had put him in a huff . |