Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This what I asked you the other week . |
2 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |
3 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
4 | well any way look , if I made you a thin bit of steel straight across the centre like that |
5 | Well I actually rang them up to say , why why are you taking my wages into consideration , I did n't break up this marriage , I met him a long time afterwards an I was told by a C S A agent or clerk or whatever , that my wedding was nonessential spending . |
6 | Oh I got her a lovely cute little teddy . |
7 | I got you a wee ball of your wool for your mittens . |
8 | ‘ I got it a little wrong , ’ says Eva . |
9 | So I found him a small house called Kirk o'Field , outside Edinburgh . |
10 | Actually , I found him a pleasant companion . |
11 | I found him a fascinating , knowledgeable and eclectic artist , someone who thinks deeply about his work and is not content simply to record the bare facts of the world in front of him . |
12 | At first I found him a difficult subject to interview because , to paraphrase Donne , when he had done he had not done , he still had more ; and I had to learn to give him at least five seconds , grace before moving on , because his afterthoughts were often gems . |
13 | I found him a clean scarf to hold over his face . |
14 | She says she did the Byrd show ‘ because I found her a fascinating part of the underground scene in New York , and I felt somebody should expose her to a bigger market . |
15 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
16 | I 'm a comparative newcomer to this computer age that many people of my generation would rather try to ignore … but you really ca n't … and as an owner of a computer and an 8 year old , I found it a good read and picked up lots of new tips on home entertainment/education as well . |
17 | There with the Princess 's permission as the only journalist , I found it a fascinating insight into how Diana conducts a part of her life that has until now been comparatively secret . |
18 | I had been his guest in the air very briefly before when I was taken up to see Low Birk Hatt as a bird would see it , and I found it a thrilling experience , quite the best way to travel . |
19 | I found it an impressive programme and I hope it will not lead Mr Heseltine to conclude that chess sets are less harmful potentially than television sets . |
20 | ‘ I promised you a romantic walk — is this romantic enough ? ’ |
21 | Again , I bore her no personal ill-will . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | I told her the old lady was rich and that she had done the cottage up beautifully . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 ! |
28 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
29 | But I , you know , I told you the front brakes they er snapped the middle and all this . |
30 | Well I re , I noticed you the other er , last time we went anywhere it you look one way and walk another ! |