Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | do you remember when I told you about that baby on the maternity ward |
| 32 | When I got back ooh you know I told you about that job ? |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Now , if I told you about those years , you 'd have a story to write ! |
| 35 | Now then , that new vending machine I told you about last time . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time . |
| 38 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
| 39 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 40 | ‘ I played him in many positions and he 's never let us down . |
| 41 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 42 | This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about . |
| 43 | Mm , mm and no , I dropped them off this morning , that 's it , he 's picking them up |
| 44 | I soaked it in hot water and antiseptic and I drank a little more whisky . |
| 45 | A cream-coloured dress of mine got covered with rust and , although I soaked it in biological liquid , it did n't get rid of the stain . |
| 46 | Mind , I welcomed them with open arms because it meant I could stay off school . |
| 47 | I threw it to one side . |
| 48 | I cuddled him for four hours until he died in my hands . |
| 49 | I know with mine it was a pound and , I renewed mine for two years , well three years I think I never drove , I just wanted to have a provisional , but now , I think like if someone said it was fifteen or seventeen |
| 50 | There were other possibles — mostly underworld figures — but I discounted them as red herrings . |
| 51 | ‘ I joined them for selfish reasons , ’ he admits . |
| 52 | I taught her for several hours every day in the library , although it was not easy to make her concentrate on anything for long , as she was clearly not used to the discipline of lessons . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | I may say that despite my reputation of being trigger-happy where libel writs are concerned , I restrained him by all sorts of expedients . |
| 55 | I must have bloody done so , because they both produced contracts and five or six witnesses who swore that , although I was completely paralytic , I signed them on last Monday night at the Duck and Forceps . |
| 56 | And I arranged it on that day at the time . |
| 57 | ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon . |
| 58 | And then I finished it in one go . |
| 59 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 60 | Well , I stuck it for two years . |