Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
2 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
3 | All of them made it back to the rendezvous where they also met up with Zirnheld 's group who had managed to account for eleven aircraft . |
4 | Later he confessed to me that he had been feeling a certain unease in the region of the colon ; when I asked him why on earth he had n't told me , he answered , ‘ I 'd never discuss my plumbing with ladies ! ’ |
5 | ‘ I asked him not to . ’ |
6 | I asked him in for a break . |
7 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
8 | I asked her once about the packet . |
9 | ‘ I asked you not to . ’ |
10 | Becky did not flinch from the cold water but took a deep breath as I lowered her down beneath Our Lady 's statue . |
11 | I flung them on to the bed where she should have been , but was n't . |
12 | I chucked it out in the end . |
13 | I do n't know why but I chucked it back in the water . |
14 | The boot blacking came off on my hands and I wiped it off on the side of the bed . |
15 | So I thought , ‘ Ah , I 'll just write it anyway , ’ so I made it up from beginning to end . |
16 | I 'll never know how I made it through to the interval , an hour later , but I do know that I wrenched those lenses out with such force that in the second act I was white-faced , red-eyed , and resembled one of the Brides of Dracula . |
17 | She thought , Now he 'll say what he was going to say last night , except that I made it hard for him , I was so unloving , so unresponsive . |
18 | Bob and I made it out of hardboard and Formica … |
19 | I could n't tell you how , but it I , cos you 'd , I do n't want nothing , but when I did , I 'd got ta use my ingenuity to get something that I could get one or two or a dozen or ten off , you know what I mean , and I got ta make it and a lot of times I made it out of wood which was easily er you know treated . |
20 | Mr Alms , who described himself as retired but who runs Investment Chartwork , a firm of ‘ economic forecasters ’ , said : ‘ I suppose you could say I made it out of warped sense of humour . |
21 | I made it back to the car and drove very slowly back to my own apartment . |
22 | I made it back to Stuart Street just before eight . |
23 | I think I made it once for my parents-in-law . |
24 | Then , slowly , she fell forward and I laid her gently on the ground . |
25 | Instead , I led him in by secret ways , going round the Hospital of St Katherine , past the Tower , to Custom House on the corner of Thames Street near the Woolquay . |
26 | How I led him out of the garden and into a rough and stony place where naught but thistles and brambles grow ! |
27 | Some years later , Hellen and I met her again in Hong Kong , where the impresario , Harry Odell , had brought her for a concert . |
28 | I met her once on one of my off-duty bookshop prowls , took pity on her and gave her lunch . |
29 | I met him infrequently on the subway journey to and from work . |
30 | I met him briefly in 1963 at a poetry reading given in Tokyo at the American Center by James Dickey . |