Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
| 32 | At my weekend surgery three pensioners came to see me in considerable distress because of the difficulty that they faced in paying their water and electricity bills and other bills from private utilities following the large price increases . |
| 33 | But after a while he augmented the phone calls with occasional visits , and as the summer wore on came to see her with increasing regularity , eventually as often as his professional commitments allowed . |
| 34 | ‘ I came to see you about some notes I sent your husband . |
| 35 | A year in Milan , Italy 's great fashion centre , had sounded close to perfect — at least , that was how the woman who 'd interviewed her at International Models had made it sound . |
| 36 | But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness . |
| 37 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 38 | The tsar was well aware that the legislation left much to be desired and delayed publishing it until 5 March , the first day of Lent : " alarmed by the prospect of riot , " wrote an admittedly hostile contemporary , " he hesitated a long time before choosing a day for promulgating the sham freedom and eventually chose the day when it was least of all expected " . |
| 39 | She was Smallfry 's mam , but she never , ever came to visit them at Old Ashfield . |
| 40 | Er but she 's a member and we went there for lunch and it was the ideal place , you know , cos there were n't any , many people around and so we had quite a nice lunch and erm whilst we were there we then had a drink in er in the bar and erm her the , the secretary of the club , a lady , came to talk to Barbara and she mentioned that she 'd seen her on Blind Date you see , and so I got to know more by listening to them two speaking er and er that 's where I learnt about er that . |
| 41 | I was fourteen then , I 'd seen her in National Velvet , and had been barmy about her ever since . |
| 42 | She 'd seen him with another woman when he was supposed to be away at a conference . |
| 43 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |
| 44 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 45 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 46 | He seemed to resent them on that occasion and will not wear them today . |
| 47 | He seemed to resent them on that occasion and will not wear them today |
| 48 | If he 'd got her to that state , why was she drinking coffee ? |
| 49 | Although he said he 'd bought them from another dealer , the police proved he 'd been handling stolen goods . |
| 50 | For Rachel , who had never before experienced such intensity of feeling , it was as if he 'd transported her to another world — a world where every sensation was heightened , every touch the prelude to yet more delight as he explored and worshipped every inch of her body before taking her to the peak of fulfilment . |
| 51 | It seems that she had fallen in love with him but she " did n't know where I was at all " with him ; he would be most affectionate towards her and then , for no apparent reason , seemed to avoid her for protracted periods . |
| 52 | A little thrill of anticipation ran along her skin as she turned and looked into the eyes of the man who 'd watched her with such intensity during the fashion show . |
| 53 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 54 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 55 | The notices were poor and Ken cocooned himself in one of those invisible cloaks that he believed protected him from any contact with the outside world . |
| 56 | How was it then that all these ordinary people seemed to manage it with effortless ease ? |
| 57 | They were given some money , and told to divide it into two accounts , one ‘ private ’ , one ‘ public ’ . |
| 58 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 59 | Everything was peaceful — everything but the man who 'd brought her to this place . |
| 60 | They 'd found them after five days , with Sandy 's parents hammering at Ted every minute of the time . |