Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fought for them two , to get that home for her , so I said no , the only way you 'll do it , and I , when she were on her own , I said , not that I do n't trust Nigel , I do , but you do n't know what 's gon na happen in ten , in ten years time , I said I fought for that house for you , if you exchange it , you exchange it in your name |
| 2 | I bumped into her one evening when I was out fetching Dad twopenn'orth of twist . |
| 3 | I bumped into him four weeks later and he said , ‘ Oi , you made it all up ’ and I swallowed something sharp and jagged , shrivelled like a salted snail and said , ‘ Yeah I did ’ . |
| 4 | She actually I have to be I 've been to her house and she lives in the middle of nowhere I wo n't tell you where , she lives in the middle of nowhere in fact I drove past it three times before we found it . |
| 5 | He knew exactly what he wanted and so I relied on him one hundred per cent . |
| 6 | I thought about it three or four times but no-one else can do his job . |
| 7 | I get up on my skates and dance to my left , in exactly the style I learned from him 25 years before . |
| 8 | and I said to her one night , and we bought those bags of sweets , it was ninety nine pee for about forty |
| 9 | I said to him one day . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're losing your hair , Will , ’ I said to him one day . |
| 11 | er , now he does n't like to talk about it you see , and I said to him one day look Paul for god sake , oh , he 'll tell his mum , but he does n't like to talk about it to me |
| 12 | ‘ If I said to Robert once , I said to him fifty times , ’ his great-uncle was grumbling . |
| 13 | What as as I said to you twenty percent of the messages a word sounds the same . |
| 14 | I had at Carrans Cort blown down 30 great ealmes which had in them 50 tunes of timber . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I love it when you do that … ’ she whispered to him one day as they made love , and he laughed softly , looking down at her , such warmth in his face that her heart stopped and her smile faded . |
| 16 | And me granny to help me and he was the land nobody could really find that if you came across it one nasty day well you 're there and you 're kind of stop there if the went away . |
| 17 | She came to me one day and asked me if I would stand for the council , which I did . |
| 18 | Well , there were n't so many old people then when we came here we were classed as one of the oldest people because er they were all very young people and you were talking about Dame Leah Manning and she came to me one day and she said we 're going to have a problem on the town because it 's a very young town . |
| 19 | ‘ So she worked with you five years ago ? ’ |
| 20 | She looked at them one by one ; she nodded to the people she had seen sewing by the fountain ; she smiled at the old woman and the boy . |
| 21 | She looked at them one last time . |
| 22 | On a groan and a sigh as men are supposed to attain their pleasure and then — as she remembered from her one other experience — there came his reluctance to move away from her , her panic urgency to be free of him while there might still be a chance that no damage had been done . |
| 23 | ‘ You do n't even know the full extent of what you did to me six years ago . |
| 24 | Perhaps Mr Woolf had overheard that classic remark by a member of the public who said to me one day when we were negotiating the locks of the Caledonian canal in Venturous , " I did n't know we had Inland Revenue Cutters . " |
| 25 | Three a year which was very nice and er oh well whilst I was there , you see , erm I landed up in , in Peel because I was going on a and she said to me one day this Miss er what are you doing today ? |
| 26 | You owe me , Mr Scott , except that nothing can ever compensate for what you stole from me six years ago . ’ |
| 27 | We attended between us five workshops and found all of them lacking in a clear overall framework/direction which would at least set an agenda for future constructive discussion ( let alone action ) . |
| 28 | We dealt with him two years ago and we 'd like to speak and and we 're we 're looking for a repeat |
| 29 | And there came with him thirty and six Kings , and one Moorish Queen , who was a negress , and she brought with her two hundred horsewomen , all negresses like herself , all having their hair shorn save a tuft on the top , and this was in token that they came as if upon a pilgrimage , and to obtain the remission of their sins ; and they were all armed in coats of mail and with Turkish bows . |
| 30 | And the Moors entered Castille , in great power , for there came with them five Kings , and they past above Burgos , and crost the mountains of Oca , and plundered Carrion , and Vilforado , and Saint Domingo de la Calzada , and Logroño , and Najara , and all that land ; and they carried away many captives both male and female , and brood mares , and flocks of all kinds . |