Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 2 | And apparently she phoned her the other night at half past twelve and said can you come and pick me up ? said no . |
| 3 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 4 | Suddenly we found ourselves the proud owners of three switchboards , two lines , thirteen phones and a miraculous fax ( ‘ Oooh , you must have to roll them up ever so small ’ ) machine . |
| 5 | His pal his workmate was retired and a few months after , Arthur died , so it left me the one and the owners of the property , they give me notice to quit and no messing about er and when I talked to them , they give me twelve months , rate free , to erm get out . |
| 6 | And the longer he held her the weaker she felt . |
| 7 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 8 | Yesterday I fed him the bony scraps from my reindeer stew and he is now mine for ever . |
| 9 | The more she praised me the quicker the needles clicked . |
| 10 | Well you bought me the new vacuum cleaner . |
| 11 | Well you did it the other day but then you did n't have a teddy in your hand did you ? |
| 12 | Well I was supposed to be but erm every single time they arrange it and they either tell me the wrong da well they told me the wrong day last week cos , they told me Tuesd they told me it was Thursday when it , when it was actually Tuesday when I was getting pissed at Scott 's house so erm it was too late by then . |
| 13 | And then I saw her the next day and and then I realized the and then I came back home and I told her why does n't she see there 's something changed . |
| 14 | But then she remembered what the wise old turtle had told her about putting herself in the dog 's place , and doing what she would want to have done to her . |
| 15 | That you have a map of an island ; that there 's crosses on the map to show where treasure is ; and that the island is — ’ Then he told us the exact place . |
| 16 | It was then he gave me the old papers I have read to you . |
| 17 | A actually I visited somebody the other day and you just forget you just forget . |
| 18 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 19 | Ministers had rejected the report but politically it took us the next two general elections to repair the damage . |