Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm also thrilled by the terrific response to my December letter , when I asked you to pinpoint the key issues that you believe should be tackled by the Government in order to put Britain back on the right tracks for 1992 : not surprisingly , childcare comes high on your list , as it does in the questionnaire .
2 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 .
3 I found I had the best of both worlds .
4 I helped him pull the two long wicker chairs from the far end of the terrace .
5 And I told her to keep the twenty for that stuff in there .
6 I told him put the bleeding crumpets in the bloody toaster again .
7 I told you to keep the new ones separate .
8 Got a bloody assignment to give in and I forgot I lost the bloody address !
9 I heard him question the Indian and I reached into the cat for the map which he had left on his seat .
10 Yes , I heard you , yes , I heard you say the other day , and also did read in the press , where you 've been quoted , Councillor Warby , that you would build various by-passes and no doubt you will be putting , I have n't yet heard any amendments to the capital goal .
11 Right , I er , I heard you say the right answer , so I was obviously incorrect .
12 As we sat drinking sherry together and I watched her acquire the jowled ovine features of all elderly English gentlewomen , I found it hard to summon up my old anger .
13 I was in the house the night you came back , and I watched you try the french windows , and then go round to the back to find the kitchen window locked , too .
14 When I came around the next time all I seen was smoke … and I knew we put the final bullet in him , ’ Destefani said after emerging from the cockpit of his winning racer .
15 Imagine that somehow I knew you regarded the proposed arrangement with distaste .
16 So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do .
17 If we took de Guichet himself — I saw him pass the other day , twice as thick as when I knew him , and the beard changes a man , but I knew that thwarted , ambitious face of his — if we took de Guichet himself , would Isambard give us Harry for him ?
18 I saw him driving the other day , tell you that ?
19 I thought we edged the first half and although they edged the second , we had the better chances . ’
20 ‘ 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 . ’
21 I thought you had the best of that particular discussion . ’
22 I thought you said the three grand as it stood without the M O T and anything
23 I thought you wanted the same approach .
24 And your father and I thought you did the right thing about David .
25 I thought you liked the good old I can have the other bit then ?
26 I thought I recognised the royal tones of the battleaxe queen .
27 I thought I recognised the little shit . ’
28 I thought he felt the same about me ; perhaps he did in the beginning .
29 It was n't easy , but I persuaded him to do the right thing .
30 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
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