Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bumped into him four weeks later and he said , ‘ Oi , you made it all up ’ and I swallowed something sharp and jagged , shrivelled like a salted snail and said , ‘ Yeah I did ’ . |
| 2 | I bumped into her one evening when I was out fetching Dad twopenn'orth of twist . |
| 3 | The solution came to her one evening when Nahum commented on her excessive pallor . |
| 4 | ‘ Liverpool have exploited that but it first came to me many years ago in a charity match at Newcastle . |
| 5 | And on the morrow they began to attack the city , and they fought against it three days strenuously ; and the Moors received great loss , for they came blindly up to the walls and were slain there . |
| 6 | It is said that he constructed a tank and poured into it molten gold so that it became one vast molten block . |
| 7 | And er I mean it was all luck everything that sort of happened to me that night anyway I mean it it was n't so lucky for other people but I suppose most survivors have their their tale or so . |
| 8 | I 'll tell you what happened to me seven months ago . |
| 9 | Glenn Hoddle says they they do n't do things easily … they were the best footballing side on the day and its justice for what happened to them three years ago |
| 10 | Another door opened to me last year when my daughter presented me with a gorgeous grandson , Simon , the same daughter who was instrumental in my first joining the Brownie Pack so many years ago ! |
| 11 | It finished for me three years ago . |
| 12 | ‘ So she worked with you five years ago ? ’ |
| 13 | No , we never sent for him two nights ago . ’ |
| 14 | The other hands stopped dead when my shovel fell on it some years ago . ’ |
| 15 | I have appended a letter which you sent to us last year kindly offering CPRW £500 of B&I Travel Vouchers for our use in fund raising . |
| 16 | If I looked at them all night long , I should n't grow tired of the sight . ’ |
| 17 | That 's the one where I marshalled with you last year actually was n't it ? |
| 18 | We dealt with him two years ago and we 'd like to speak and and we 're we 're looking for a repeat |
| 19 | I get up on my skates and dance to my left , in exactly the style I learned from him 25 years before . |
| 20 | ‘ You do n't even know the full extent of what you did to me six years ago . |
| 21 | Barbados was British through and through , and one of his friends said of him many years later : ‘ He was as English as can be . |
| 22 | In the same way that he now helped his wife to dress , and waited upon her all day long , Wilson sought out people to keep her company . |
| 23 | ‘ Good pony you 've got there , young lady , ’ Artemis 's father said to her some time later , as they walked quietly on . |
| 24 | Perhaps Mr Woolf had overheard that classic remark by a member of the public who said to me one day when we were negotiating the locks of the Caledonian canal in Venturous , " I did n't know we had Inland Revenue Cutters . " |
| 25 | and , and er , Alan , Alan actually said to me last year why I do n't see the importance of audio description anyway |
| 26 | As he said to us 42 years later , ‘ I was interested in some kind of sense , that I descended from Aaron , that I was some kind of high priest . |
| 27 | Well I heard what that bloke said to you last time when I went before , do n't worry , once you 've paid for it once you 've paid it they 'll sort it out from there . |
| 28 | He wrote to me some time later about a meeting with Ivy at Madge Ashton 's when there was some talk about Angus Wilson . |
| 29 | I wrote to him some years ago for some gardening advice , and had a very nice and helpful letter back . |
| 30 | Did you know one of my very oldest friends ( family knew mine before I was born ) is a W cousin but he was said to get no reply when he wrote to them some years ago . |