Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robertson confirmed in the second paragraph of his signal that " movement to Italy of all Germans is not acceptable because it would cause serious blockage on our L of C. He therefore informed McCreery that AFHQ would be " approaching 12th Army Group immediately " to ask them to accept all German surrendered personnel from 5 Corps , with the exception of " arrestable categories " , such as SS . |
| 2 | ‘ I made sure Ryan found out about it . |
| 3 | I made sure Frankie washed himself and warned him to behave himself as well . |
| 4 | I mentioned the reduction in unemployment that has taken place in Holyhead , and , while the decrease has not been as good there as in some other areas , the announcements that I made this morning gave a priority to Holyhead . |
| 5 | I mean I remember Mike I mean that house had |
| 6 | I mean many people wrote disparagingly about your attempt , your nerve in taking on a gem of the New York stage and turning it into a British directed movie . |
| 7 | No , no way , we used to , we used to , I mean ancient man did |
| 8 | whites studying blacks , you know , all those other kinds of imbalances in , in psychology in the social sciences erm which might be interesting erm cos like Guy sometimes says about erm when he was er talking to some er deaf people , well perhaps not talking 's the right word but communicating with some deaf people about their , about their problems , I mean this bloke said you psychologists are all the same you just think that deaf people need cochlea implement |
| 9 | N no , well see what happened to me , I mean this person came and she said er , Er if you like I 'll do it for you . |
| 10 | I mean National Grid gave them a bit of cable . |
| 11 | oh , something like that and you get three , three bars and that 's a hundred pound , I got fifteen pound did n't I , do n't you start . |
| 12 | I got those buttons did you this morning ? |
| 13 | The ones I tried this morning did n't come down , anyway . ’ |
| 14 | I expect that lot belonged to her late husband . ’ |
| 15 | I found that love went out the window when it was sweaty socks and handkerchiefs and dirty nappies and all this in front of me and I thought well this is not romance this is bloody hard work . |
| 16 | The writer of the old guide book whence I gleaned this misinformation had unknowingly quoted a fragment of folklore older than Roscommon Town and its jail . |
| 17 | I want each unit costed before we even start to plan the town . ’ |
| 18 | I want each pony washed down and all the sweat scraped off . |
| 19 | I want that car brought in , turned over to the laboratory and given the works . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I want that booze delivered today , ’ Woolley said . |
| 21 | I want this thing settled . |
| 22 | ‘ I want this room cleaned , and I want a warm bath got ready for Mrs Duncan . ’ |
| 23 | Then I want this lot livened up . ’ |
| 24 | I want this matter investigated . |
| 25 | I want this matter cleared up . ’ |
| 26 | He just said , ‘ I want this place cleaned up in forty minutes . ’ |
| 27 | Incidentally , the golden eagle which I mentioned last week did not reappear in Yorkshire 's Nidderdale where it spent at least five days , but it was finally relocated . |
| 28 | Two days ago I ate baited carrion left out for fox or crow over in Skye and its effects were to poison me and make me feel near death . |
| 29 | ‘ But dad , ’ said Joshua , who is seven , ‘ I noticed that Grandpa did not have on his ordinary clothes . |
| 30 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |