Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it began with just when I got me money each week , 'cos I had a job , a weekend job with me uncle and I 'd get me money and I 'd just go out and score , get a coupla bags or something and then me mates 'd come round here and say , ‘ Can I do a smoke in here ? ’ , y'know , and so they would and they 'd give me a smoke for coming in here and eventually it started getting , like , from weeks , from weekends to days , becoming every day , like . |
| 2 | ‘ That little mistake was corrected when you got my note this morning , as you know very well ! ’ |
| 3 | I know pregnancy creates an added risk of retinopathy , and I 'm seeing my ophthalmologist next week , but that 's not enough . |
| 4 | And Sam Burch went to see my grandfather next day and he said : |
| 5 | I went to see my father last night . |
| 6 | ‘ Besides , I 'm going along to see my agent this morning . |
| 7 | A straw St Bridget 's Cross hung over the door of the dark little room in which I was eating my breakfast next morning . |
| 8 | I was eating my tea that afternoon — they would n't let me go too — and I got called over to the Centre [ the prison officers ' operational centre within the prison ] . |
| 9 | ‘ It made my mouth bright red . ’ |
| 10 | Within a fortnight , the committee had reconvened and given my father free life membership . |
| 11 | Lose my stuff one day , myself the next — should I be allowed out on my own ? ’ |
| 12 | And all he kept doing was twisting my arm last night , and my leg bummer ! |
| 13 | Prime Minister is normally here a couple of times a week to answer questions maybe the honourable gentleman will catch my eye one time very soon , he can put that to the Prime Minister himself . |
| 14 | Bumped my toe this morning . . |
| 15 | I wanted to ‘ do ’ someone I knew a little , but when I approached my number one seed , he served me up Roy as a better choice ( Roy just happened to be on holiday so not able to comment ) . |
| 16 | As soon as he entered my room that night , he declared provocatively that I must be rich to have such a bed and quilt , as well as cassettes and a television and a video . |
| 17 | Has my mother any entitlement to income on the £60,000 as it was being gathered in by the solicitors and prior to it being handed over to the investment adviser for the purchase of the securities agreed by the trustees ? |
| 18 | I apologized for my behaviour ( you know how it is : a few drinks , a few laughs , you step out of line ) , and asked if I could buy her lunch some time . |
| 19 | First she dedicated her song that night to the man who was bleeding ( he was still in The Bar , the taxi had n't come yet ) , and then to the men who had brought their fists down on his face just two streets from her Bar . |
| 20 | Blackbrook Recs maintained their form last week with a fine win at Simms Cross . |
| 21 | GH-K are no strangers to such nail-biting circumstances since they only retained their position this season when they found themselves with a better points differential to Stewart's-Melville , who have subsequently won promotion . |
| 22 | While crowds at Netherdale and at the relegation games should be large , the biggest attendance could be at Inverleith , where Stewart's-Melville will be hoping the experience of players such as Finlay Calder , Douglas Wyllie and Julian Scott will see them win their Division II promotion clash with Musselburgh . |
| 23 | Typically 1300-1400 bargaining groups report their settlement each year . |
| 24 | The newsletter rates HP the leading Unix vendor last year and expects it to consolidate its position this year with at least the 40% revenue increase it got last year on an 80% increase in shipped units . |
| 25 | Even Glyndebourne has its novelty this year , with the British premiere of Michael Tippett 's New Year , first staged in Houston last autumn . |
| 26 | When he had found out that Mike lived in a flat he 'd invited him to come and enjoy their garden any time , but without really expecting to see him . |
| 27 | The patients reported at 0900 after an overnight fast and having discontinued their acid inhibitory treatment two weeks previously . |
| 28 | The man 's hand was warm , tinglingly warm , surprisingly gentle too on her skin , as he bent to examine her bruising and moved her foot this way and that . |
| 29 | No , Flo come I stopped her conversation half way through . |
| 30 | Lieutenant Ramos gave them some warning as the helicopter approached their destination some time later . |