Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ He had to see me this time because I had a clue for him . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He came to see me several times and even brought Gordon [ Jackson ] along too . |
| 3 | The majority of people that went through that service all had some recollection of things they did n't enjoy very much but they by and large thoroughly enjoyed their experience in the Army , it livened them up , it made them better men and we have got after all one of the best armies if not the best army in the world , it 's got to come from |
| 4 | Let down , their elation leaking away , they had decided to give up , and taken a taxi back to Alice 's mother 's house , where Alice made them both coffee and scrambled eggs . |
| 5 | Donna took a hurried bath , Julie made them some tea and , as the hands on the clock above the open fireplace crawled round to 3.56 , they both sat down , one on either side of the table in the centre of the room . |
| 6 | Use young stems or leaf stalks ; cut up into short lengths , simmer them little water until tender , then remove the tough outer skin , and simmer again until bright green . |
| 7 | So watch them for a while and then he started dancing with them and he dance them all night and he just get in his hand . |
| 8 | ‘ Could you spare me five minutes before the lectures start ? ’ |
| 9 | One of their products was erm you , when you see in the cars th th that they can er make them open top and they close the backs down , there 's a bracket on the side that er hinges up and well they used to special you know , it had come from the landaus of the horse drawn vehicle , the same sort of thing , well they used to specialize in that and they used to make some kind of locks but I 'm I have never talked to anybody that worked there so I , I do n't know , but that 's the only other one as I , as I 'm aware of er was the , was Wilks 's and er Bloxwich Lock . |
| 10 | He stabbed them many times after they were dead . |
| 11 | What you say basically to somebody is , right , what do you want them this height or that height ? |
| 12 | Perhaps my Occulobe organ grants me keener micro-eyesight than yours ? |
| 13 | They asked me personal questions that I could not even repeat here today . |
| 14 | After I had produced talks and features for a year or so , Jack Radford asked me one day if I would like to take charge of a music show . |
| 15 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 16 | Run home at once , and bring me some gloves and a fan . |
| 17 | She , and she got me five dishcloths and five dusters . |
| 18 | So Parsons got me this job and I used to sit up there and answer the phones . ’ |
| 19 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 20 | If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows : |
| 21 | Very occasionally he 's given me tinned stuff and pretty naff it is , too : bland and soft , like something you 'd give a kitten . |
| 22 | They 've always given me tremendous support and , when I 've been able to in a busy schedule , I 've reciprocated . |
| 23 | Now Zain has given me great help and everybody sort of helped er you know I 've discussed it with everybody and we 've almost finished erm a really good proposal I think . |
| 24 | It has given me great pleasure and pride to have been part of that team . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Richard has also given me many opportunities and without him and Peter my life as a freelance jockey would be made just that little bit more difficult . ’ |
| 26 | Simply to say ‘ I was going to speak to you about a wonderfully deserving and little-known charity but the producers have only given me twenty-two seconds because they 're cutting straight to a sponsored lard-slice in Abergavenny , so I wo n't . ’ |
| 27 | Dr Cassidy put forward fairly Burmin 's assertions that gold mining on Croagh Patrick would in no way interfere with the pilgrimage : ‘ I say in all fairness that should planning permission for mining ever be granted Burmin have given me repeated assurances that there will be no interference with the Pilgrim Path , there would be no interference with Patrick 's Peak or that particular part of the mountain range . ’ |
| 28 | Unwelcomed , unwanted , despised and dug out , they had added a new dimension to my life , given me another self and I wanted never to go from Claro . |
| 29 | He 's given me three dates when he 'd be delighted to meet us erm Friday the thirtieth of April , four of May or fifth of May , but other dates a as necessary . |
| 30 | He said , ‘ Sickness has given me this fortune that this sultan has come to my side , at morn so health and well being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King without retinue . |