Example sentences of "[pers pn] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 To gaze on thee I left the smoaking Pail ;
2 A great man in those days who was trying to be encouraging told me I had a terrific eye for English weather .
3 I 'd always wanted a little girl , but one of the students at the door told me I had a beautiful little boy and he was fine .
4 With me I had the two Kens .
5 An ex-agent of mine told me I had the wrong attitude to charity shows ; I did too many .
6 They told me I had an academic future , a considerable future . ’
7 Behind me I heard a slow-moving car .
8 Then behind me I heard the rhythmic tramp of marching feet and the shrill " 'eft 'ight , 'eft 'ight , " that usually went with it .
9 Among them I discovered the French people .
10 Very often , I have gone to interview somebody , having told them I want a two and a half minute interview , and I want to cover roughly the following five topics .
11 I I I know a good doctor
12 I I heard the other day what I thought was one of the best advertisements not to have an animal for Christmas very emotive , er I think it was for the R S P C A , and I I 'm told I do n't think you 've heard it but it b basically it 's it 's er the sound of a er well it 's a human pretending to be a dog really and saying you know , Well this is nice my my er family have taken me to the vet , I did n't think I was ill but never mind .
13 And I I thought the only ones I 've ever seen and they 've got like things like three eight and Chevvy or maybe a V er .
14 that 's what I did , and I I thought the same thing .
15 I I got a twelve month ban anyway .
16 But you see I I got a vivid ginger hair , real red , you see ?
17 I I I got a little bit involved in that a few years ago , when I was working on it , having had some scepticism before-hand .
18 Cos I I got the two science lectures and thought I 'll try and get a couple of arts lectures ,
19 Oh yes I I mean the Irish Water Spaniel well well we got ours because I was told it was the most intelligent dog in the world .
20 It was when I was about twelve I broke the front of my tooth so I I had a temporary cap put on , and it only lasted six months and came off !
21 Yeah I I had a vague recollection of you drinking Newcastle Brown sometime and quite liking it .
22 And that 's I I had a quick er look through last year 's sales and and laid out in fact I went through item deliveries and worked them into the months
23 Actually I was cos I I had the back door open and I thought I 'll just leave it and if he wants to come in he can and I poured him a a bit of a drink of milk and er , then I went in the kit , in the bathroom and the door was still open and then suddenly I thought God I wonder where he was ?
24 I I became a great friend of hers actually , er she looked out of place on the bench .
25 And in fact at the greenbelt plan inquiry er er I I spent a considerable amount of time arguing on the issue of prestige sites and the availability of prestige sites within the greater York area already planned and available .
26 Erm I I think the only time that people might have slept in here is if you had a visitor who had a lot of servants and there was simply nowhere else to put them .
27 Erm I I think the only person missing i is Idris , so I do n't
28 So I I think the new settlement remains justified even with the significantly lower figure for Greater York .
29 Could I , what , what is not , touched on in the notes , but is , I I think the other side of the coin is that , if justice means treating people fairly , this is on the basis of treating the accused fairly .
30 I I think the best thing to do with the flutes is to put them along with the first
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