Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [det] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the third call Morris said to Bob , ‘ I asked some people to step round . ’ |
| 2 | The best way to understand how people , from all walks of life , can be helped is to hear from them personally , so I asked several people from my classes in Devon to write a short summary about how the Alexander Technique had helped them . |
| 3 | On my first visit to the village I was unable to find any of its vines and when I asked several people from the larger Champagne houses , few had even heard of its vineyards , let alone of their elevated status . |
| 4 | In order to gain some idea of the adequacy of the diet , I asked several people from poor families outside how much rice they ate and whether they would find the prison food acceptable . |
| 5 | I asked several people besides Demetriades , who had been at the school only a year , whether Leverrier , Mitford 's predecessor , or Mitford himself had ever spoken about meeting Conchis . |
| 6 | and I got some fruit up the market on Friday . |
| 7 | got some , I got some people coming round tonight so I was gon na do it anyway . |
| 8 | erm so I mean what I did with my final year project was actually try to write something which was very sort of wide ranging and broad which sort of was like a first dr draft of an introduction and then once I got more data |
| 9 | I wish I got this fish in butter . |
| 10 | But the moment I started singing again , I caught another trout . |
| 11 | I approached several people for money to back the project . |
| 12 | I drew that aircraft all the time . |
| 13 | As a driving instructor I encountered many people who thought that there was something wrong with the car because the wheel would not move easily . |
| 14 | At a conference in San Francisco not so long ago , I encountered some people who want to deal with all these problems by contraception . |
| 15 | ‘ When I first watched Michael Chang play tennis , ’ Jose recalls , ‘ I told several people that I believed Chang could do well at the French Open . |
| 16 | I ate some fruit , followed by a tuna sandwich made with solid wholemeal bread and headed for Toby 's house . |
| 17 | It was n't black when I showed those people round , but it was damp . |
| 18 | Yes I enjoyed that trout last time . |
| 19 | I cursed those people and said |
| 20 | like ice in water , I cursed those people |
| 21 | It may have disappointed the fearless patriot , Mickey Spillane , who wrote these lines for his detective , Mike Hammer , in One Lonely Night ( 1951 — sales three million ) : ‘ I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hands . |
| 22 | I knew these people would be good owners . |
| 23 | Ruth poured herself another cup of coffee and sat down facing him ; then said , deliberately , ‘ I saw those people with spears as well . ’ |
| 24 | I saw some people from school and turned my head away so as to avoid them . |
| 25 | When I arrived at the school I saw some people who I recognised from the induction days . |
| 26 | I brought these people to the attention of the public . |
| 27 | I brought these people to the attention of the public . |
| 28 | " And I thought some people might like them . " |
| 29 | I thought most people knew about genes nowadays . |
| 30 | Oh no quite probably matinee and then the early evening which I thought those people were coming out from look and erm , and this one , good grief fancy doing that be here half a day , you 'd think you 'd earn the damn money would n't you ? |