Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible . |
| 2 | Well as I say I went for this interview and she phoned me last Sunday did n't she ? |
| 3 | But they stopped them last year did n't they ? |
| 4 | The Irish team was lying second to Germany following Friday 's dressage but a fall on cross country by Karen Connelly to incur 60 penalties and a refusal by Sasha Harrison which cost them 20 penalties sent them out of the reckoning . |
| 5 | Those friends on the police force who would doubtless fail to remember me these nights had even let me have carbons of a few rap sheets . |
| 6 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |
| 7 | When I asked Lee what 's going on , he told me this guy had met him at the airport and that he had a letter and had said he 'd caddied for Henry Cotton . |
| 8 | He told me some firm did all the furniture choosing and decorating . |
| 9 | I think they used to overlap them one edge did n't they ? |
| 10 | Well I told you that Fenwicks had and they were cheaper than |
| 11 | Told you last night smoked like hell yesterday afternoon , she coughed her bloody heart up last night . |
| 12 | Mark could hardly believe his ears when , two days before the EPC meeting , Muldoon told him that Nate wanted him to fly out to Istanbul right away . |
| 13 | His instincts finally rang the bell and told him this man had more than a casual interest in what might be going on downstairs . |
| 14 | It seemed her true love had sent her a present from a partridge in a pear tree . |
| 15 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |
| 16 | Gran told her that mum had to go into hospital because she was hysterical ! ! |
| 17 | ‘ But Mother went scarlet when the boss 's wife told me what a nice suit I was wearing , and I told her that Mother had spent nearly all night making it . ’ |
| 18 | You done it last year did n't you ? |
| 19 | That got you all going did n't it , arf arf . |
| 20 | A little after 3 o'clock this morning he rapped at several doors in Marlborough Street ( adjoining one of the piers ) and informed them that fire had been set to one of the ships in the harbour [ and ] matches were laid in several others ; the whole world would soon be in a blaze , and the town also destroyed … |
| 21 | Mother Benedicta had told him that Topaz loved him . |
| 22 | It may be that she commissioned the piece under the influence of the Norman history written for her brother Duke Richard II by Dudo of St Quentin , while some have thought it political propaganda intended to influence events after Cnut 's death . |
| 23 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
| 24 | A Saga Holidays spokeswoman has told us that Saga contracted rooms with the Roman Hotel a year ago for this season . |
| 25 | As she 'd set off down the drive her one thought had been that perhaps it was n't too late . |
| 26 | But his experiences of street life in Hackney and his boxing ventures in Bethnal Green taught him that blackness presented him with a unique set of problems . |
| 27 | I had to do it that way did n't I ? |
| 28 | The television nasties we all thought had gone for good are here again and age has n't improved them . |
| 29 | Last , I broke it last night did n't have enough time cos I was , if I 'm doing his books all afternoon . |
| 30 | He saw a good deal of Eden in the next months , and with a genuine desire to see him Prime Minister gave him a lot of advice . |