Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 2 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 3 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 4 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 5 | The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’ |
| 8 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 9 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 10 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 11 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 12 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 13 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 14 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 15 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 16 | If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road . |
| 17 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 18 | Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I ! |
| 19 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 20 | I got it with the fourth one |
| 21 | and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ? |
| 22 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 23 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
| 24 | I caught it in the other hand . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all . |
| 27 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 28 | I rated him as the best British droll comedian we had . |
| 29 | In an effort to find an ally in helping her , I mentioned her to the local priest . |
| 30 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |