Example sentences of "[pers pn] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I told them I had some wine and we all came back . |
2 | I I made some stock the other day |
3 | No , I I thought Nine man 's morris , I thought it was a ga er , a dance . |
4 | And er so while I was in this shop I I sold this chap five hundred bundles of fire wood you see ? |
5 | Er er always played football or tennis and I I played all sports that I could get hold of . |
6 | And you know I , I actually had phrases like bra burning thrown at me and erm I I said that feminism to me is about having the same opportunities as men and I put few of the phrases er er you know along those lines and so everybody round the table said well yes I believe in that too , I said well then you 're feminists and so it 's about valuing or devaluing words as well and you know you just made the point about changing words , but how far do we go with this ? |
7 | That one e erm I mean I 'm a I was just I I said twenty pound O six , it was a quick calculation , it ends up at seventeen per cent margin . |
8 | The one we see with five years I said to Bet well it 's bloody cheaper than the one she 's , anyway I I I had enough money on my er thing so |
9 | I I I I had another piece . |
10 | You know I pl I I started this album really I started writing it while I was doing Love Hurts in Israel and Zoe would s sort of catch in the caravan , what the hell are you doing now , you know I was writing lyrics and thi , and I started to get keyed into this album just before I finished Love Hurts . |
11 | Erm I I I did this morning but I 've handed it back to the District Council access to their newt report , which was referred to a couple of days ago . |
12 | So I 've , I I did some rice and ha had it , but might just as well have thrown it away . |
13 | And of course I I wanted some land as I presume all Welshmen are land hungry . |
14 | but I you said three hours or so . |
15 | Yeah , would you , but a couple of years because John was busy he bought us all tokens , erm , he bought the others tokens from Woolworths and me token from a body shop and we all , and I we had great fun looking and seeing what we wanted to buy with , with the book tokens , er , maybe , maybe I mention it providing we ca n't find anything . |
16 | That 's the bloke Emos , anyway , Peg and I we had some fun there all the same . |
17 | Oh no I we had some time off did n't we ? |
18 | Did you are you trying to tell me you spent two quid last night ? |
19 | How is it that you do n't know and in your letter to me you said this trust did not know where that money had been withdrawn at the same time Andrew director of Eastern Arts was quite happy to write to me to tell me why he was quite happy to tell the press over the phone why how is it the trust did n't know ? |
20 | ‘ You told me you had another date — what was the point in my hanging around ? ’ |
21 | ‘ The dairyman told me you hated old families . ’ |
22 | ’ Fred never told me you did that sort of thing . ’ |
23 | ( She seemed to me to be about eighteen years old , although as we walked along she told me she had five children , all happily married . ) |
24 | It 's a three-day Congress er and what we do in our Guild , we have , we had a house party on a Tuesday night and she 's told me she made twenty-six Pounds and erm we , we send our , our delegate Congress with that money you see , er because you see , er women would not if you could n't say you could sponsor them . |
25 | When she went home to tea with them she ate delicious food . |
26 | At one point it had looked as if she might have been forced to live at home with her parents , and much as Rachel loved them she knew that arrangement just would n't work . |
27 | Eachuin Odhar and his grandson spent much effort on dodging her , for whenever she set eyes on them she tried new tunics on them . |
28 | Like them she hated false endings , dishonest resolutions , a pretence that the half-told tale is finished : ‘ This is n't the whole story : this is n't my statement . |
29 | I liked everything about it , I liked everything about it , mind you I had sore fingers to begin with , very sore , with the filing you see , but also er I was used to thing in a way because there was a little lock shop in mother 's yard er and erm home-made er home-made locks and he used to er and now he used to do them and stamp them and I us I worked his hand press for him before I was fourteen and they were for and they are still and my mother used to take them to Birmingham and erm I think he used to give me sixpence for doing everything I did for him . |
30 | Mm but mind you I had that headband did n't I ? |