Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible . |
| 32 | Well , I charged them six shillings and out the three of them went puffing their heads off . |
| 33 | Mm used me two times table . |
| 34 | ‘ You promised me some cigarettes , Mrs Dawson . ’ |
| 35 | Now , however , he , Alfred and their sister Godgifu were abandoned to what must have looked like permanent exile in the Norman court ; Edward was doubtless on his way there when he visited the monastery of St Peter 's Ghent in December 1016 and , according to a charter , promised them English lands should he become king . |
| 36 | He invited me several times to supper at his parents ' house . |
| 37 | We 've had a good living out of it but if that same system has brought them on their feet , you know and built them nice homes er right they 've delved into Company 's House now , all the dirty water not dirty water all the whatsit has come up how much they 've drawn from these quarries . |
| 38 | They sported ditches and hedges and he built them proper jumps in the hedgerows to practise over and life got far more earnest and dangerous . |
| 39 | ‘ He beat me three years ago , but it will be different this time , ’ said Porter at a press conference yesterday . |
| 40 | Asian ships did not go round the Cape of Good Hope to trade with Europe , and East Indiamen , as the Company 's ships were called , were so heavily armed and were so much safer from the risk of piracy that merchants found them useful carriers even though they did not sail as fast as local ships until the Company had its ships built of teak some decades later . |
| 41 | and it was really a happy life , I enjoyed that and then when they , we found them all jobs . |
| 42 | She said : ‘ Mia found them several months ago . |
| 43 | Oh , I can pay cash , changed me some dollars right in the airport … ’ |
| 44 | It cost me many night-hours the more because I was reading of one thing and thinking of another . ’ |
| 45 | I went down town yesterday and got some braising steak and it cost me five pounds sixty . |
| 46 | It cost me two years of impoverishment , spending every dime on legal fees . |
| 47 | And er one or two got caught up occasionally now and then so we did erm have to go underneath because I was earning too much to get a free one it cost me seven pounds ten and I 've got the receipt for it . |
| 48 | It cost me 300 rupees ( $19 ) . ’ |
| 49 | She said , well we had to bu we , ma made it out that we had to buy erm the whole , the whole box , it cost them fifty pounds ! |
| 50 | The Irish team was lying second to Germany following Friday 's dressage but a fall on cross country by Karen Connelly to incur 60 penalties and a refusal by Sasha Harrison which cost them 20 penalties sent them out of the reckoning . |
| 51 | Murphy and Taggart led for much of the way but missed out a loop section of the route which cost them 30 marks and they dropped back . |
| 52 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 53 | You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal . |
| 54 | You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal . |
| 55 | I weighed you two ounces . |
| 56 | In that same year he married his cousin Helen , daughter of John and Joanna Smyth , and between 1797 and 1805 she bore him six daughters and two sons . |
| 57 | She bore him eight sons ( of whom four died in infancy ) and nine daughters . |
| 58 | She bore him two daughters and was buried 13 June 1691 , five days after her husband . |
| 59 | Betty bore him two daughters . |
| 60 | He was married in 1873 to a hearing lady who bore him five children , one of whom died in infancy , and died in December 1890 after a lingering , incurable illness . |