Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 2 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 3 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 4 | I cried out in relief and happiness : I thought I recognised him as a former schoolmate , a boy with whom I used to exchange groans about the maths problems whose solutions so frequently eluded us . |
| 5 | I handed it to a former flight engineer of 213 when I visited him in Toronto some years ago . |
| 6 | I enjoyed it for a few weeks but then went to Stanley . ’ |
| 7 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
| 8 | I killed him for no more reason than I wanted to do it . |
| 9 | I taunted him with the same lie Ursula used . |
| 10 | ‘ I started a similar scheme in Wellington , but then I did it at the same hour on the same day every week . |
| 11 | I forgave him for the many occasions on which he had unthinkingly made me feel mentally subnormal . |
| 12 | So I chipped it into a little space over the scrum , ran round , picked it up and went up the middle of the field . |
| 13 | ‘ I heard that , ’ she told him in the same language . |
| 14 | She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come . |
| 15 | To her , religion was morality and appearance , and she kept it in the same compartment of her mind as her dinner napkins . |
| 16 | She spotted us at the same time and after a long look , took her offspring and ambled away along the side of the mountain . |
| 17 | Then [ by the given property of U ] t — 1 + 1 ε U. That is t ε U. But t ε T [ we chose it as the least element of T ] and so unc a contradiction . |
| 18 | yeah we did it on the same night . |
| 19 | Covering the work to protect from frost and rain , we left it for a few days to dry , which helps the shuttering to loosen itself too . |
| 20 | We decided we did n't really like a lot of our clothes , so we replaced them with a few very simple things . ’ |
| 21 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |
| 22 | When Stephen was in hospital they kept us on the same house with all the mothers and babies , even though I had asked to be off it . |
| 23 | ’ So they kept us in a few days . |
| 24 | They viewed me with the same puzzled look as I later saw on the faces of nomads miles from civilization . |
| 25 | ‘ And they supported you in the same way ? ’ she asked gently . |
| 26 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 27 | But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four . |
| 28 | AN ARMED robber ‘ executed ’ a security guard because he recognised him as a former schoolmate , a court was told yesterday . |
| 29 | ‘ You will not be coming back , ’ he assured her in the same arrogant tone . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , in cash , he paid me on the same day , insisted on doing so . |