Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to show you the that |
| 2 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 3 | I tried to ring her the other day as going to a seminar at my solicitors office nearby and had hoped to walk up plus dog , leave Bella for duration of seminar and pick her up again = kill exercise bird with seminar stone as it were . |
| 4 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing ! |
| 7 | By this time Desmond had nearly stopped on the flarepath and I decided to give him a wide berth . |
| 8 | So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience , |
| 9 | ‘ In true Hitchcock tradition , I always make one appearance in each series of Rumpole , but this time I decided to give myself a speaking part , ’ he says . |
| 10 | There were some hills around me , so I decided to build myself a little house on one of them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I meant to ask you a long time ago and I forgot to . |
| 13 | I had n't been to the dump for a while , and it was about time I went to see what the good folk of Porteneil had thrown out . |
| 14 | Life in the rainforest is brutish and short , and most of the Kayan people I spoke to consider themselves a good deal better off than their forefathers — thanks to the logging . |
| 15 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 16 | I had to give him a bloody week ! |
| 17 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 18 | The longer I waited to tell her the harder it became . |
| 19 | I intended to give him a further lesson on the facts of life , later . |
| 20 | " I wanted to give him a nice gravestone , " she said . |
| 21 | Choosing what to include took some time , though I wanted to give it an artistic flavour . ’ |
| 22 | Now I wanted to tell you a little bit too before we leave about one of the ARC publications that may be of interest to those of you who are self-propelled . |
| 23 | ‘ I wanted to express what a simple thing death and burial is , just as simple as the falling of a leaf -just a bit of earth dug up — a wooden cross … . |
| 24 | I wanted to find myself a quiet corner and curl up in it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But as she bent to cuddle them a small boy , brushing down a pony , picked up a lump of mud and hurled it at the dogs to drive them off . |
| 27 | If she tried to evict him an undignified struggle would only ensue and she would n't give him the satisfaction . |
| 28 | She tried to imagine what an imposing building it must have been in its time . |
| 29 | Koo Stark was out there in the powder room and seemed to identify with my predicament ; indeed she promised to procure me a long thin-necked vessel and return . |
| 30 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |