Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I promised you a romantic walk — is this romantic enough ? ’ |
| 32 | ‘ I promised you the best assassin in England , Mr Estabrook , and he 's here . |
| 33 | Again , I bore her no personal ill-will . |
| 34 | I weighed it a few minutes later and was delighted , to say the least , when it pulled the needle round to 10lb 3oz . |
| 35 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 36 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 37 | I told her the old lady was rich and that she had done the cottage up beautifully . |
| 38 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 39 | Later , when Frankie and Liza , my brother and sister , came in from playing I told them the sad news , but they did n't seem very upset . |
| 40 | Yes well I think I told him a wrong , you see , there were two there there are two ways of tackling it and I do n't think the way I told him is what they want for the examination purposes , at all ! |
| 41 | ‘ I told him a few home truths , but it was a waste of breath , there was nothing I could do . ’ |
| 42 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 43 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 44 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 45 | I told you the first Michele had it specially made . |
| 46 | But I , you know , I told you the front brakes they er snapped the middle and all this . |
| 47 | ‘ I told you the same thing . ’ |
| 48 | Then I , I put it in a saucepan and I stewed it the next |
| 49 | ‘ You still believe I rejected you the first time , do n't you ? ’ |
| 50 | Well I re , I noticed you the other er , last time we went anywhere it you look one way and walk another ! |
| 51 | He said : ‘ The van was not there at 6pm but I noticed it a little bit later . |
| 52 | I noticed it the other day when you were round then |
| 53 | There was an elderly man about 80 sitting on a seat , so I showed him an old photograph , and he remembered the lady we were with . |
| 54 | I showed him the relevant page of my guide-book . |
| 55 | I hated it the first time . |
| 56 | I admired him a great deal … ’ |
| 57 | My eyes were shut most of the time now as I blundered round the park and when I opened them a red mist swirled . |
| 58 | He sank into a fireside chair and I poured him a small medicinal quart of Absinthe to steady his nerves . |
| 59 | I taught her a new move and she practised it on me but she missed and got me in the and I fell on the ground . |
| 60 | Yesterday I fed him the bony scraps from my reindeer stew and he is now mine for ever . |