Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
| 2 | comment if I asked you for some advice ? |
| 3 | ‘ I got them in some shop in Covent Garden . |
| 4 | Well I got it from that travel agents |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | I found them in those dawn hours . |
| 7 | ‘ I approached it with some trepidation but the satisfaction of passing was immense , ’ he said . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 12 | do you remember when I told you about that baby on the maternity ward |
| 13 | When I got back ooh you know I told you about that job ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
| 17 | Mm , mm and no , I dropped them off this morning , that 's it , he 's picking them up |
| 18 | Although the ministers were too polite to commit themselves , even when I pressed them on this point , it was clear to me that they felt they , and their church , had been used . |
| 19 | And I arranged it on that day at the time . |
| 20 | ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon . |
| 21 | The hole I drew was about nine metres out and I fished it with that length of pole and a short line . |
| 22 | I watched them for some time , thinking smugly ‘ Ha ! |
| 23 | I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about . |
| 24 | Luckily there was a manger in the corner of his box with a tying-up ring next to it so I tied him to some baler twine , in case the worse came to the worse , and put his water and his hay at nose level in front of him . |
| 25 | I placed it in that part of the room where we need the light , with something which , if I believed in it , I would call instinct . |
| 26 | I called them into this room and spoke to them . |
| 27 | You 're not forgetting that I called you before that time myself , and you told me Bonanza had taken the girl away somewhere ? ’ |
| 28 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 29 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 30 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |