Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] i [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 2 | It is true , these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first , but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage , I have refrained from giving them much thought . |
| 3 | Yes , in one five , erm they 're practising notes from Eynsham it does happen to be in Cherwell ward and not North ward , erm there is a booklet out about health and housing in Cutteslowe , and I wondered what the connection between , you know , not being on this committee , but these health action areas , and what in fact is happening in housing , because the director did assure me that other wards were going to be treated to the same erm treatment . |
| 4 | Yet strangely my time at Bristol had given me some relevant training . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll be needing some more wine , ’ Elinor said handing me another flagon . |
| 6 | The driver of a passenger lorry stopped to give me some bread and carrots . |
| 7 | " You certainly gave him your version of how your aunt came to leave me this property , " Matthew said bitterly . |
| 8 | Kāli came to bring me some of the cooked meat , chewing some herself . |
| 9 | In the following example , the head is the first five syllables : Bill called to give me those |
| 10 | ‘ Of course , Gooseneck did tell me that Fagg suffers from gout and haemorrhoids , which make him behave even more horribly than when symptom-free . ’ |
| 11 | that copper man had told me this morning |
| 12 | ‘ Monsieur Tollet at the sports centre had to leave me several times to deal with queries . ’ |
| 13 | Well Geoff did buy me some sherry glasses he says oh , you give me two |
| 14 | Er Stuart , Stuart did phone me some months ago on this issue , to say he was having increasing difficulty getting to the meetings , and he asked me if er I would take it on , and I said , I would if , you know , if he were pushed . |
| 15 | The surging crowd had carried me some rows back from the front . |
| 16 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 17 | In fact , Mum had reprimanded me many times for being Sam 's lap-dog , saying that I was too much under my brother 's rotten influence . |
| 18 | As time went on and Basil began showing me all of these things , it gradually came over me that it would be nice for the American people to see that English art was much more variegated and lively than just these big portraits . |
| 19 | I now decided it must be my messing about with the eggs that was causing the problem , even though John had told me this was the method he was using . |
| 20 | My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public . |