Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
| 2 | Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow . |
| 3 | comment if I asked you for some advice ? |
| 4 | In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me . |
| 5 | I can confirm that , of course , I made none of those statements , but I believe that each of them can be attributed to the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 6 | ‘ I got them in some shop in Covent Garden . |
| 7 | The first version there , is one that I did before I even looked at your , at at any of the homeworks , and I got myself into some awkwardness of trying to translate virtues , and ended up with beneficial properties , erm , which is hardly perhaps very idiomatic and the one underneath that is Jemma 's and the absent writer not that she could be embarrassed because she 's not here , erm , and she 's actually simplified more than I have , by half a line , you 'll understand . |
| 8 | Well I got it from that travel agents |
| 9 | Mm , we went in that , we went and got me barm cakes and a bit , a few veg and that , went , oh I bought Li Joanne a little set of er instead of an Easter egg , it 's quite nice , I got it from that shop , you know erm next to Kingston and Hutch |
| 10 | I ran away from him as fast as possible , and did not stop until I found myself in some fields . |
| 11 | I found them in those dawn hours . |
| 12 | The males started fighting , so I moved one to another tank , leaving two females with one male . |
| 13 | ‘ I approached it with some trepidation but the satisfaction of passing was immense , ’ he said . |
| 14 | I just knew I was inspired when I proposed you for this job here , that it would come back to me in some incredible way . |
| 15 | After a week of intensive treatment at Farnham Park my back was hurting more than ever , so I discharged myself without any hope of a cure . |
| 16 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 17 | I told her of that woman novelist who made a character in Provence ladle out onion soup , followed by bouillabaisse for luncheon , and in summer too . |
| 18 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 19 | do you remember when I told you about that baby on the maternity ward |
| 20 | When I got back ooh you know I told you about that job ? |
| 21 | Erm I told you about that chap Michael Bell who wrote to me about using my book as play , I 'll read you his letter some other week . |
| 22 | Now , if I told you about those years , you 'd have a story to write ! |
| 23 | I told you in another part of this saga of mine that I took over a Night in No 7 Squadron from a Flight Commander . |
| 24 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
| 25 | But when I rejected everything of this sort to set myself to one purpose , my soul was absorbed with love for my Maker . |
| 26 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 27 | ‘ I played him in many positions and he 's never let us down . |
| 28 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
| 29 | Mm , mm and no , I dropped them off this morning , that 's it , he 's picking them up |
| 30 | I taught her for several hours every day in the library , although it was not easy to make her concentrate on anything for long , as she was clearly not used to the discipline of lessons . |