Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I abruptly asked them the same question I had of Benjamin . |
| 2 | He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ A reporter told me the only dames he knew weighed 16 stones at least , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Rosie told me the other nurses who worked here have tried to be more than just assistants to him . ’ |
| 5 | My ever difficult told me the other night I needed to change my attitudes and lifestyle and to realise I would not get another job at my age . |
| 6 | Being certainly lost an opportunity by not being it 's only body there is an editing element in the book publishing section from the P G B and there are elements relating to us in the S P G of the Periodical Training Council and there will be bits of them in the public relations in the marketing one of which I 've got a copy of the draft , but you know there is nothing all embracing B T E C do graphics and journalism but there is no single forum , I mean that 's what so astonishing and interestingly somebody at B T E C told me the other day there 's been a bit of a problem about the the book editing part of the editing level three element um , and that 's partly political as to editing versus production because production 's level four and editing is level three , and that has made some problems apparently |
| 7 | To start with I went along to visit local parent , Mrs Audrey Durrant , who told me the main problem she faces as the mother of a ten year old dyslexic boy . |
| 8 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 9 | But I , you know , I told you the front brakes they er snapped the middle and all this . |
| 10 | Well I think there in , well they ca n't go together , told you the last time you was here , they ca n't go on holiday together . |
| 11 | He held for Alice altogether a great fascination , but she steadfastly refused offers to go and see him in the nursery , and ignored him the few occasions he was on show . |
| 12 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 13 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 14 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 15 | Ken Gillance , defending , said Lamont was not connected with vice but Welsh told him the previous day she had almost been run down by one of Roth 's friends . |
| 16 | But her own body told her a different story which , lying here for the long days of rest which had been prescribed for her , she had heard clearly enough through the bird-twitter of Linnet and her mother , and Tristan 's determined joviality . |
| 17 | Rachel told her the only thing she could : that her sister had a mild indisposition , and I was her understudy . |
| 18 | ‘ He looks very comfortable on the ball and scored us a fabulous goal which set up the win . |
| 19 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In particular it showed me the many opportunities we have , and that we are a talented organisation . |
| 22 | ‘ That lady tamed him the first time he set eyes on her . |
| 23 | She gathered up the bags and pushed them towards the child ; and when he reluctantly handed her the two pennies she said , ‘ Thank you very much . |
| 24 | ‘ I must confess I 'm pretty sick about it all , ’ he said seriously , then when she threw him a startled glance he suddenly grinned . |
| 25 | The sultan showed us the royal regalia which were secreted in the palace . |
| 26 | When Walter Ash rang her the next day she would not speak to him . |
| 27 | Du Camp in one of his books — I forget which , there were always so many — made a reference to the malign effect on man of too much solitude , he called it a false counsellor who nurses at her breasts the twin infants of Egotism and Vanity . |
| 28 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 29 | Her agent — perhaps he was n't the best in the world — never got her an American tour which , again , might have made all the difference . |
| 30 | I suggested to Lord Bonham-Carter that his pedigree inevitably made him a political appointee himself : |