Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as I shouted I sensed the utter absurdity of my words and the ludicrous figure I presented , a slovenly , plump young man , so obviously clumsy and ineffectual , rabbit 's ears of shirt-tail escaping from my waistband . |
| 2 | I found I had the best of both worlds . |
| 3 | Got a bloody assignment to give in and I forgot I lost the bloody address ! |
| 4 | Imagine that somehow I knew you regarded the proposed arrangement with distaste . |
| 5 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 6 | I thought we edged the first half and although they edged the second , we had the better chances . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I went off to get another one and when I got back to the phone she said ‘ have you got it ? ’ and I thought she meant the new biro , so I said yes and she said goodbye and hung up . ’ |
| 8 | I thought you had the best of that particular discussion . ’ |
| 9 | I thought you said the three grand as it stood without the M O T and anything |
| 10 | I thought you wanted the same approach . |
| 11 | And your father and I thought you did the right thing about David . |
| 12 | I thought you liked the good old I can have the other bit then ? |
| 13 | ‘ I thought I recognised the royal tones of the battleaxe queen . |
| 14 | I thought I recognised the little shit . ’ |
| 15 | I thought he felt the same about me ; perhaps he did in the beginning . |
| 16 | As I said to Kay it 's Terry that does all , he gets the money in , he pays all the bills , Muriel brings him the bills , I said he does all that apart from the fact I said he spent the whole day yesterday , the whole morning yesterday here clearing this , oh she said I did as well , erm you know help , I said what you , but as well as clearing |
| 17 | Because I said I liked the immortal Bix Biederbecke he obviously thought I was avant garde and beyond redemption . |
| 18 | You know they must be you know and a certain amount of guilt maybe that they that they did n't support the miners or you know it was something that was happening far away and maybe y like I said you gave the odd tin of beans you know but er |
| 19 | As she collapsed she saw the last of the assassins crumple , his body lifted once then once again as the shells ripped into him . |
| 20 | Several times she thought she saw the tall figure of the guide , only to be disappointed . |
| 21 | For herself , she wished she could have bought one of the paintings , she knew she had the ideal space for it on one of the walls of her long white sitting room in Kington Square . |
| 22 | She felt , in her new severity ( for want of a better word ) only half alive , she knew she wanted the old enthusiasms and passions and expectations to course through her and arouse her . |
| 23 | She knew he had the proverbial wife and two kids at Camberley . |
| 24 | And just as surely she knew he wanted the same thing . |
| 25 | With the legacy she left me when she died I bought the little flat on Fernhill . |
| 26 | When she demurred he said the other possibility was that Holly had tipped them off . |
| 27 | She said she saw the two defendants tormenting an elderly woman by prodding her from behind . |
| 28 | The insolent way she said it made the other girls gasp with astonishment . |
| 29 | Yeah , you said , that 's Mrs 's boy , but she said I thought the two big ones wherever |
| 30 | We had we had the two schools , the School and the what we call the Boys School , that was the other one on on the green and it the girl 's school , near this school , you started there as an infant between five and seven . |