Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew some Hindi so I asked Chris in Hindi what time it was . |
| 2 | I met Helmut for lunch at Fouquet 's . |
| 3 | ‘ I met Truman through Babe Paley , about 1952 . |
| 4 | In the summer of the same year that saw the first air mail service across Western Canada I met Hollick-Kenyon by arrangement in New York . |
| 5 | At the farm I met Pat from Brigade H.Q He was delivering a message to the C.O. of 6 Commando . |
| 6 | I entertained Heather to lunch there as well . |
| 7 | I got John in shop . |
| 8 | Those socks I got Tony at Christmas , were they any good ? |
| 9 | There 's a CP freight train due behind it but I got Sudbury in time and it is n't leaving there . |
| 10 | I phoned Graham at work . |
| 11 | I seen Andy in town today walking round with his erm headphones in . |
| 12 | I entered Dover at nightfall just as the sky darkened and rain began to beat down on my plumed cap . |
| 13 | During this rest period I interviewed Chris by telephone and asked him how the wedding of the year had gone . |
| 14 | And she 'd got , we was always very interested I played Puck in Midsummer 's Night 's Dream at school and all that kind of thing . |
| 15 | I parked Armstrong in front of the Zephyr , reversing until the bumpers almost touched . |
| 16 | Yet even in the depths of my soul , even when I faced God in church and took His Body and Blood at communion , I could feel no shame . ’ |
| 17 | I taught Branwell at home , and Aunt Branwell taught Emily and Anne . |
| 18 | I watched Hanley on TV against St Helens and Halifax and he looks to have lost the pace and mobility to close down players going away from him . |
| 19 | ‘ The day my husband left was the day I started Gerson in earnest . |
| 20 | I rang Seddon at home before he left for New Scotland Yard and asked him to find out for me the names of the officers who had dealt with the Southwark Bridge case . |
| 21 | ‘ I saw Val in Willow , and I said , ‘ This is Jim Morrison . ’ |
| 22 | What annoyed me when I saw Ochs on stage in productions at that time was that he was played as a grotesque , everything greatly exaggerated . |
| 23 | Or wait till tomorrow night or , Joan phoned this morning and oh I s I saw Tom in town yesterday . |
| 24 | Mr Christie , in an exclusive interview with TODAY , said at the time : ‘ When I saw Sue in prison , almost the first thing she said to me was that the sentence was wrong . ’ |
| 25 | Erm and the erm I saw John at lunchtime and I mentioned it to him because he , he said that , it had n't even occurred to me till then , because he said I 'm concentrating on the surveying side and I thought ha ha ha to you my friend . |
| 26 | I 'm not sure whether Seve did , and I saw Watson in trouble , having gone through the green and up against the wall . |
| 27 | I saw Charlie at church on Good Friday . |
| 28 | When I reached Ostend at midday on 16th there was no ticket but only a message to the effect that I had to buy another one . |
| 29 | So I reached Lochinver in style , had time to look around , and mounted the bus outside the post office : the morning 's collection of mail and I were the only passengers . |
| 30 | I kept Joanna in commission , her food locker in the small cuddy where I both cooked and slept well stocked with keeping-stores , and she had a good reserve of fuel for the outboard . |