Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I distinctly asked for it bien done . ’ |
| 2 | Surely no tide could have them if they clasped hands and fled from it side by side . |
| 3 | The plane bumped to a halt , the engine coughed and died , and two figures in leather flying helmets swung out of the open cockpit and came towards them arm in arm . |
| 4 | Ian came with us part of the way , so we took two cars and left ours at the finishing point and Ian 's at the entrance to the track . |
| 5 | actually I , the dose that I had to take , I cut them down to see how it would go but , I must admit , I suffered from it Doctor , |
| 6 | He came to me time after time , as useless as a surcharged phonograph — drunk on Byron , Shelley , or Keats . |
| 7 | Even so it would be nice to have an indication on the screen that this command prompt came to you courtesy of Windows . |
| 8 | These and other similar resonances seemed to me hand-fashioned for Johnson 's interest — but time and again , no comment . |
| 9 | It seemed to us nonsense that the benefit system should be duplicating the role of educational provision in that way . |
| 10 | But I left in a hurry because the piglets ' mother did n't approve of a stranger wandering among her brood and she came at me open-mouthed , barking explosively . |
| 11 | And just filled a net basket of eggs and put it down in the in the water and the water flowed through it kind of . |
| 12 | In the following year , however , a plot was hatched by the English and their supporters , which regained for them control of the city . |
| 13 | I 've got to think — if anything happened to me mother , say she were to pass away tonight — I 've no job and nothing coming in at all , only perhaps interest from savings which would n't keep me … |
| 14 | In my view our fellow Members , who lived with us cheek by jowl , were fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses and were unlikely to be impressed by pictures of me on their TV screens dressed in a striped apron and pretending to wash up in the kitchen , as had happened during the Tory leadership election . |
| 15 | He was no longer a beadle but the manager of the workhouse , and his wife , formerly Mrs Corney , scolded and argued with him day and night . |
| 16 | She did not respond to this , but stared at him , until he spoke again , saying , ‘ I 'd have been along before now , but I heard about me father the very day when we last spoke , and so I had to go off straightaway to Newcastle . |
| 17 | David raised his head , and saw the two who walked towards him hand in hand . |
| 18 | To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse — the cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory ! |
| 19 | Then I just rushed out of the pub and started runnin' , then you got in me way and knocked me over and sprained me ankle . ’ |
| 20 | So me went down dere an " me called for me spar dem and " im come along wiv me and " e … an " " e check some woman down there , y'know check some skirt — jus ' grind up some daughter y'know , smoke weed an " t'ing . |
| 21 | He had sent for Philip who had raced up from Wales to coach and instruct this miraculous son in a great Shakespearian role to be performed in an Oxford college before an audience of West End luminaries ( Gielgud , Terence Rattigan ) : ‘ We worked on it line by line , hour after hour , into the early morning … |
| 22 | Tragic father died for us vicar |
| 23 | The chairman requested that the departmental reports be considered one by one and the governors went through it section by section , specific comments being made at particular stages . |
| 24 | Percy Feilding fell for it hook , line and sinker and ended by buying this , the most perfect small Tudor house in Oxfordshire . |
| 25 | I thought about it day and night . |
| 26 | Dot , and the , that was the first time I ever went with you darling , do you realise that ? |
| 27 | I went with you lot . |
| 28 | JACs and juvenile employment committees also made use of COS methodology and volunteers , who brought with them experience of working with young people . |
| 29 | When they were away , there was always the worry that they would never come back but when they got home , they always brought with them gossip of other places and other people . |
| 30 | ‘ It brought with it tree branches and all sorts of rubbish . ’ |