Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , in 1964 he won the Masters again and everyone expected him at St Andrews for the Open Championship . |
| 2 | Old hands from the music business — usually loquacious if invited to reminisce — were struck by collective amnesia when I asked them about Dury . |
| 3 | Addressing questions to a class of primary school children in a rural school at the time of the Passover , I asked them about places in the Bible where there were sheep . |
| 4 | I asked him about Heath 's style as Prime Minister : |
| 5 | When I asked him about sheets , he said , I buy them new , tell me when you want some more . |
| 6 | But when I asked him for permission he just agreed . |
| 7 | Werewolf admired her motorbike , I asked her about weekend games at the farm . |
| 8 | I asked her for help — I wanted to go back to Scotland ! |
| 9 | I asked her to slack off on the ginger a bit |
| 10 | ‘ I asked her to supper on Friday . |
| 11 | ‘ Yesterday , when I asked you about animal rights , you said you were out of it and clammed up good and proper . |
| 12 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 13 | But it was there when my heart softened on witnessing the courtesy you showed my housekeeper , the smile you had for her ; there when I asked you to dinner with no certainty why I 'd done so , other than that it most assuredly was n't on account of any interview . |
| 14 | ‘ What did you think of the show ? ’ someone asked me after Yves Saint Laurent . |
| 15 | If someone asked you in French you might have to think about what tasse du thé means before you visualised a cup of tea and said ‘ Oui , s'il vous plait ’ . |
| 16 | I hugged her in front of the Matisses . |
| 17 | I felt the jolt in his chest as I hugged it in rhythm against mine and for a long second could n't believe it , but then he heaved again in my arms and coughed in my face and a mouthful of dirty water shot out in a spout and he began coughing in earnest and choking and gasping for air … gasping , gulping air down , wheezing in his throat , whooping like whooping cough , struggling to fill his functioning lungs . |
| 18 | Mind , when I read their story on erm I read them on Thursday afternoon and I said , right we better practise for nursery |
| 19 | I made you from oak . |
| 20 | Luckily , I made it in time . |
| 21 | Not that it came to me just thinking : I realized it at school . |
| 22 | I picked her up and she were wet through , had to put fire on and I laid her in front of fire |
| 23 | I laid it on soil ; the shoulders managed |
| 24 | I essayed all the Disneylands of the world and a selection of tarmacked spice islands ; I patronised him with Marbella , applauded him with Zanzibar , tried aiming straight with Santorini . |
| 25 | I met her in Monte Carlo . |
| 26 | I met her in New York . |
| 27 | ’ I met her in town one day last week . |
| 28 | I met her in Cambridge and she introduced me to her new boyfriend who was a Dutchman called Erik Hazelhoff-Roelfzema , I was most impressed with this keen and very handsome young man , but I knew nothing whatsoever about him save that he was anxious to get into the Pathhnders . |
| 29 | I MET HIM ON HOLIDAY |
| 30 | I met him on holiday . |