Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 2 | Oh I got her a lovely cute little teddy . |
| 3 | At first I found him a difficult subject to interview because , to paraphrase Donne , when he had done he had not done , he still had more ; and I had to learn to give him at least five seconds , grace before moving on , because his afterthoughts were often gems . |
| 4 | He sank into a fireside chair and I poured him a small medicinal quart of Absinthe to steady his nerves . |
| 5 | This morning I boiled her a nice fresh egg , and she ate the lot . |
| 6 | I gave her a deep old-fashioned bow , a legacy of the East European courtesies in which I had been raised . |
| 7 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 8 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 9 | ‘ I gave him a good whacking , ’ Wally told police as he was taken away on a stretcher . |
| 10 | I therefore completed to his satisfaction all the forms he gave me , and I gave him a detailed written description of our proposal , and a revised working drawing showing greater detail , with both of which he seemed satisfied . |
| 11 | I gave him a detailed surgical report . |
| 12 | It would n't look very good if I gave you a great big rambling piece of paper now to tell you about communications |
| 13 | ‘ When the red light changed , I gave it a big welly-full . |
| 14 | I bought him a red hot , a sort of sausage on a roll with mustard . |
| 15 | I bought you a nice little savoury egg . |
| 16 | I wrote her a long long |
| 17 | She flung him a savage little smile . |
| 18 | And Mrs Fawcett came rushing up to the hospital with the perfect solution : she lent me a battery-operated portable radio . |
| 19 | So those but Fantasia passes are very similar , I just turned mine turned mine round she saw it and went she showed me a blank yellow so I did n't thought it perhaps a different pass but it was n't just turned it round on her . |
| 20 | Faye whispered , her eyes misting and her throat going froggy as she showed them the tiny black-haired bundle cradled tightly in her arms . |
| 21 | In this box she showed him a long thick green book , a little like an accounts book , with sombre marbled endpapers : |
| 22 | But she offered me a nice sunny room under the eaves at the back . |
| 23 | She sent him a faint answering smile , because it was true . |
| 24 | Fran brought her thoughts back to the moment , forcing a slight , polite smile to her lips as she flicked him a quick sideways glance . |
| 25 | She bought him a new brown suit and a new white shirt . |
| 26 | Yeah cos you gave him a big juicy kiss |
| 27 | She gave me a long piercing inspection . |
| 28 | She gave him a pleased earnest nod . |
| 29 | She gave him a melancholy little smile . |
| 30 | She gave him a gracious little nod , determined to die first rather than do any such thing . |