Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all felt happy about this and began to walk towards a distant wood , but as we approached it we saw two figures emerging : the priest we had come to see arm in arm with an attractive girl . |
| 2 | Clare baked nothing that could be found at the local baker and charged what she considered exorbitant prices , which people seemed happy to pay in cash . |
| 3 | Instead , he used what he called mimed dance or danced mime , insisting , when asked fur an explanation , that there was a subtle difference between them , ‘ only one of degree ’ . |
| 4 | I told them I had some wine and we all came back . |
| 5 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 6 | ‘ He told me it happened 10 days earlier . |
| 7 | ‘ You told me you had another date — what was the point in my hanging around ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The dairyman told me you hated old families . ’ |
| 9 | ’ Fred never told me you did that sort of thing . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If somebody told me he disappeared some time on Friday night I would n't be surprised . ’ |
| 11 | Kenny told me he trained this morning , but was still feeling the injury , and that there was no point in him coming . |
| 12 | ( She seemed to me to be about eighteen years old , although as we walked along she told me she had five children , all happily married . ) |
| 13 | She says that the bailiffs came very early and told everyone they had 10 minutes to get out . |
| 14 | Remember I told you he had that job checking street-lamps ? |
| 15 | The Britons told him they want western governments to negotiate with Iraq . |
| 16 | He picked her up in his car after Mrs Dean told him she had some news from his ex-wife Debbie , Geoffrey Dean 's sister and a former beauty queen . |
| 17 | I told him I had twenty-two men with me , armed with fourteen rifles , as well as my own three rifles and shotgun . |
| 18 | She did n't catch what he said — his words too soft and indistinct — but his half-grin told her it had smutty connotations . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ She even shook my hand a second time after I told her I had full-blown AIDS . ’ |
| 20 | A few days ago , they had had a long and intense discussion about acting , and he had read through some scenes with her , and told her she had great talent and great beauty . |
| 21 | It made her feel that he did n't mind everyone knowing she was his girlfriend , and he was really sweet to her in bed , told her she had lovely hair and said she must never , ever cut it , it was so beautiful , and then he began to talk about Therese , saying how cruel it was that he had carried the company all these years and now , just because she was the Direktor 's favourite — he snorted at this point and said he really did believe Therese must have been old Franz 's mistress years ago in Vienna — he was being treated like a pariah , no consideration , everyone being rude and unkind to him , Therese allowed to do just what she liked on the stage even though she 'd been no-one before she came to Hochhauser . |
| 22 | Something about Adam Burns told her he had great powers of perception — she 'd do her own case no good at all by letting him know how deeply unsettling she found his questions . |
| 23 | I filled it I put six pound on , put six pounds in on Friday and I 've got loads left . |
| 24 | Apparently no specific policy but managers told us they had some problems in the past with dogs messing in the store . |
| 25 | He took one look at him , ran a battery of tests and told us he had cystic fibrosis . ’ |
| 26 | Because when I joined them they had eight branches |
| 27 | When I opened it I found neat bundles of fivers , each one with a Bank of Berlin band around it . |
| 28 | At one point it had looked as if she might have been forced to live at home with her parents , and much as Rachel loved them she knew that arrangement just would n't work . |
| 29 | If we recorded what you said last night in P E. |
| 30 | And as if they knew it they sent another flare up into the sky , so that it glowed bright and cheerful as a street lamp above his path of retreat . |