Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She also made me a small bed , which was placed on a shelf too high for rats to reach . |
| 32 | And so that , it made me a tougher than I should have been . |
| 33 | He made me a fair offer in the circumstances and I even picked up another two pounds from one of the street traders for Charlie 's huge barrow ; but hard though I tried I could n't find a buyer for Granpa Charlie 's dreadful old nineteenth-century relic . |
| 34 | ‘ I thought he was laughing at me , that he did n't want to see me , but then he stopped me and he made me a little bow , just like a real gentleman , and gave me a present , as if he did care . |
| 35 | Anyway , that made me a scarlet woman . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ A girlfriend made me a wonderful big , bright red jumper which I liked so much that I asked her to knit me another . |
| 37 | Be having another now cos he read them the other day . |
| 38 | ‘ And I sold them the best . |
| 39 | These same people the , even when faced with the blatant facts of their mistakes , still hurl at the hapless retailer who unwittingly sold them the five 3″ goldfish that they tried to cram into a small glass bowl full of raw tapwater . |
| 40 | ‘ A week ago he sold me a second-hand car that he said was almost new . |
| 41 | The ‘ Dragon-in-charge ’ sold me the requisite shoes , leotard and headband , finally producing a crossover cardigan in a scratchy wool , of a dirty mustard colour . |
| 42 | And they sold me The Last Boy Scout . |
| 43 | The members of the household , once they realised that their watches and jewellery were safe , ‘ asked them a thousand questions ’ about America , and , as the children 's governess later wrote ‘ they behaved with great civility ’ . |
| 44 | He asked them a few times . |
| 45 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 46 | I abruptly asked them the same question I had of Benjamin . |
| 47 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 48 | In his absence , I afterwards asked them the same questions , and they were able to explain quite adequately . |
| 49 | The taxi driver leaned through his window at one point and passed me a small scrap of paper . |
| 50 | ‘ We got ourselves a new ball park , ’ said the man from Detroit . |
| 51 | Before the first series went out we got ourselves an established and admired distributor and waited for the programme sales cash to roll in . |
| 52 | " Yes , I met someone the other night who made a sort of suggestion about a possible job of some kind . " |
| 53 | Where I used to live , when they evacuated me the first time . ’ |
| 54 | Then Sir Alfred pulled in in his Bentley and promised me a free hand to design a car that worked . |
| 55 | Promised me a free ticket for the opening . |
| 56 | Just drew them a whacking great circle round it and |
| 57 | Why , he even once built me a tiny crystal set in an empty match box saying , ‘ Here , Kit . |
| 58 | He drew me a small but accurate map . ’ |
| 59 | He drew me a little plan of how to get to W H Smiths and that . |
| 60 | Three of them floated in a sea of garlic and tomato and although I found them no better than chewy chicken my wife told me they were well up to scratch . |