Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit .
2 Anyway , I phoned her up the other day to have a little chat with her .
3 so I phoned him back the next day , ah he 's in our Glasgow office today so I phoned the Glasgow , he 's on the phone , I said that 's okay I 'll call back .
4 I shadowed her down the tapering passage , all its planes carpet-covered , like four floors .
5 I worked it out the other day , I 've got fifty eight P .
6 ‘ Somebody called Flavell ; asked about when I called you back the other night .
7 As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 .
8 I took it out the other night ?
9 He thanked me , and I gave him back the royal Elphberg ring .
10 I cleared it out the other day !
11 ‘ How long will you be staying with us ? ’ he queried when she handed him back the completed card .
12 She followed him up the large curved staircase and decided that even if this was for one night only , she would be happy .
13 You took it out the other night , right ?
14 Yeah , you had it out the other day .
15 But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion .
16 and when we got it back the flipping thing wo n't play at all
17 We dragged ourselves up the wide , eroded mess of a path that leads to Ben Lawers and up into the storm .
18 they sold them out the next morning , they 'd
19 Drawing her to her feet , he led her up the wide staircase to a comfortable oak-panelled bedroom which overlooked the eucalyptus trees in the garden .
20 He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses .
21 He took it a few feet out , so now he was on the edge of the 18 yard box … near the corner ( so approx 25 yards from goal ) , he pulled it back the other way , turned and curled the ball into the top left corner with his left foot .
22 Where 's the bedroom ? ’ he demanded roughly as he carried her up the wide curving staircase .
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