Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you do any baking , ’ she wonders , all innocent , ‘ for those friends of yours I met last week ? ’ |
| 2 | I remember when I first saw simulated sex on TV , putting myself in the place of the woman , the man on top of me . |
| 3 | When I first saw this photograph I wept . |
| 4 | Yes , that was exactly my reaction when I first saw this set announced . |
| 5 | What is more , Celtic and German dialects received very early the Greek verb in the sense of " to graft " : it has given " enter " in French , " impfen " in German , and I like to remember that I first met this word in my childhood as a current term of Piedmontese agriculture . |
| 6 | When I first met these ideas , I was reluctant to accept them , because they seemed to suggest that our knowledge of the world is more unreliable than I would like to think . |
| 7 | But the day when I first beheld this city I was well pleased therewith , and coveted it that I might be its Lord ; and I besought the Lord our God that he would give it me . |
| 8 | When I first had oral sex I was like totally out and I started retching . |
| 9 | When I first heard Arabic music I was fascinated , then tormented . |
| 10 | My only quibble is that when I first heard this song , at an afternoon gig in Dublin 's City Centre early this year , it was twice as long and consequently twice as precious . |
| 11 | When Ann and I first visited this area , we followed the same route as luckless Montrose , travelling south from Caithness , over the Ord to the Kyle of Sutherland , past Lairg , then up Strath Oykle . |
| 12 | Climb up sunshine mountain I first learned this song about three years ago when I was doing a show for some of London 's police at Faringdon 's restaurant in London . |
| 13 | So , it worked ideal , and that 's when I first found this place or heard about it well I heard . |
| 14 | I was told when I first entered this business that a pretty girl is on her way out at 23 and all washed up at 27 . |
| 15 | John Wilson , whom I last met some years ago with his wife on a trip to the Seychelles , thanked His Grace , and paid tribute to the support and enthusiasm of his wife , Alan Smith his hardworking keeper , Peter Pask the farm manager , and his farm staff . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know when I last had smoked salmon , ’ said Gurder , happily . |
| 17 | I could not remember when I last had any authority over anyone . |
| 18 | ‘ No , sir , but the food and clothes were gone when I next went that way , ’ Barrymore told me . |
| 19 | " I next had personal dealings with him some four years ago , in very different circumstances . |
| 20 | ‘ You all had good reason for wanting Henry Phipps dead . ’ |
| 21 | You 're telling me you 're playing la , he told me he plays in ladies teams , I bet you all had great fun , watching them women bending over table . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought you all wore terrible hats . ’ |
| 23 | Have you all , by the way have you all tried this C D rom thing |
| 24 | But I had this instinct that you 'd have a better chance if you first spent some time with me — ’ |
| 25 | Funnily enough , she could remember when she first heard that name . |
| 26 | After a decade in office Mrs Thatcher was still an exception to this trend and was as popular as when she first became Prime Minister . |
| 27 | When she first saw these combs in the shop window , she wanted them . |
| 28 | Despite her success , Buchi Emecheta still feels about this country much as she did when she first arrived 30 years ago , on a grey March morning in Liverpool . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't know you two knew each other , ’ said Jacob . |
| 30 | I did n't realise that you two knew each other , otherwise I would never have contacted the … ’ |