Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got me church to see to , ’ began Mr Piggott , truculently . |
| 2 | Policeman — Caught you red handed again , Napper . |
| 3 | Then she fell back on the turf and stared at the sky until she deemed it time to go home . |
| 4 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 5 | Late November found us weather bound at Gt Yarmouth with a stiff north-easter which , after one aborted attempt at continuing northward , had sent us scurrying back to Yarmouth . |
| 6 | Towards the end of his life he told Osbert Sitwell ; ‘ Any talent I may have was due to a long illness as a boy , which afforded me time to think , and subsequent ill-health , because I was not allowed to play games , and so had to teach myself , for my enjoyment , to use my eyes instead of my feet . ’ |
| 7 | You 're not forgetting that I called you before that time myself , and you told me Bonanza had taken the girl away somewhere ? ’ |
| 8 | Told you dad went to see the real father Christmas at |
| 9 | ‘ I flared up at him right off And I told him rd flay him if he ever sought me out again . ’ |
| 10 | At last I judged it time to get off and start walking . |
| 11 | I got you lot going and the wind blows it away . |
| 12 | He hated it when she was tactful and allowed him space to meet women . |
| 13 | Brinson could cope with the work only because he was at the Foundation , where people could see him , which had concerns close to those of the CNAA , and which allowed him time to take part . |
| 14 | An ample private income allowed him time to indulge his tastes for writing , politics , and rowing . |
| 15 | We began to understand the root cause when senior process engineer Tom Alcorn showed us work done ten years previously on similar plants . |
| 16 | More fundamental were his experiments with hawks , in which he fed them meat contained in small cages . |
| 17 | ‘ He gave me much time and attention but did not allow me to waste a minute ; he left me fully free to express my feelings and thoughts but did not hesitate to present his own ; he offered me space to deliberate about choices and to make decisions but did not withhold his opinion that some choices and decisions were better than others ; he let me find my own way but did not hide the map that showed the right direction . |
| 18 | Now when Simon saw was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles hands , he offered them money saying , give this authority to me as well so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit . |
| 19 | I sped me van to get me 'ome |
| 20 | It took me time to find out what was wrong but eventually I sorted it out . |
| 21 | Bonar sent me word to come to Downing Street where I found L.G. , Balfour , Bonar , and Auckland Geddes . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought you lot 'ad the tent , ’ the policeman said with a puzzled look on his face . |
| 23 | Mebbe she thought she wis doin' me a favour . |
| 24 | While Klakkr brought him ale to drink , and water to splash on his face , Thorfinn ran the lines through the echo-chamber of his mind : |
| 25 | He really hated literary wankers who sent him stuff to criticize . |
| 26 | He knew that I would never let him marry her , and , besides , he has a girlfriend of his own , so when I offered him money to go away and leave her alone he stood me off as much as he dared , and collected a big enough stake to marry his girl and start a small business , which , he kindly informed me when he left , he intends to turn into a large one , one day . ’ |
| 27 | It was lunchtime on 19 August 1953 went he news arrived in Rome . |
| 28 | They thought it time to take action on their own account . |
| 29 | Jimmy , a world of conjecture in his face , opened his mouth , and Leith thought it time to put a stop to his speculations before he went any further . |
| 30 | The US State Department thought it time to look closely into the causes and extent of British criticism . |