Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , Philip or somebody gave me the level premium . |
| 2 | There she was lying on the floor with Bonfire of the Vanities under her head and me giving her a gentle kneading — spelt with a ‘ k ’ dear — and we were getting quite absorbed when all of a sudden the door flew open and in he came . |
| 3 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
| 4 | My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell . |
| 5 | I bought him one Christmas years and oh hey , we were just married and I ordered him an extending ladder from the Co-op |
| 6 | They usually need to be cooked and I use them a great deal with beans and in Mexican dishes , slicing them before cooking . |
| 7 | Looking back later , Helen recalled three things about this new life , so different from the unhappy days when she and Edward discovered that his passionate letters to her were being read by Mrs Andrews : ‘ The beauty of it delighted me , and I thought it the perfect setting for these people with their freedom of manner and thought … . |
| 8 | It did n't leave much time for going out to play , and I resented it a great deal . |
| 9 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 10 | ‘ Tom and I saw it the other day , ’ she was saying . |
| 11 | And they , the company wrote back and said it 's so much a policy and looks reasonable and I sent them a bloody cheque you see |
| 12 | And I give him the whole book what lists names and numbers and what not . |
| 13 | And er I so so I brought her and her three friends that she 'd run , chummed about with them and I give them a good talking to for about an hour . |
| 14 | The penis stirs close to me , and I give it a wet nose . |
| 15 | Then I , for a few minutes , we 've got only fifteen minutes so , about twelve to fifteen minutes , and I explain them the historical aspects . |
| 16 | It seems to have a mind of its own , and I call it The Great One . |
| 17 | And I send her a red rose with the same message . |
| 18 | I pretended it was Annie 's hair we was putting on the tree , and I called her a little angel , but she got upset about that , so I stopped . |
| 19 | He sank into a fireside chair and I poured him a small medicinal quart of Absinthe to steady his nerves . |
| 20 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 21 | I therefore completed to his satisfaction all the forms he gave me , and I gave him a detailed written description of our proposal , and a revised working drawing showing greater detail , with both of which he seemed satisfied . |
| 22 | She has got in ( and out of ) problems with drugs , alcohol and a quasi-religious cult : ’ I was brainwashed and I gave them an enormous amount of money , ’ she says with a shrug . |
| 23 | I had been his guest in the air very briefly before when I was taken up to see Low Birk Hatt as a bird would see it , and I found it a thrilling experience , quite the best way to travel . |
| 24 | And it is just that : a point of view , a vision , put forward through a fine prose style , that gives the work of Frazer a position above that of other scholars of equal erudition and perhaps greater ingenuity , and which gives him an inevitable and growing influence over the contemporary mind . |
| 25 | If your child takes a peculiar liking to washing up , and you give it a sweet every time , it will start to get suspicious and realise that washing up actually is n't as much fun as it thought . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll have them every other week and you have them every other weekend . ’ |
| 27 | And you call me a bad driver . ’ |
| 28 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
| 29 | He could make a film with Nastassia Kinski , the most beautiful woman in the world ( Time had just said so , on its cover ) and she left him a slim book of Baudelaire , with some verses underlined . |
| 30 | ‘ Top o ’ the mornin' to you , Sister Hennessy ! ’ he sang , cheerful as ever , and she shot him a black look . |