Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't really think I should advise , except to say , ‘ I got it right last time I did it — I hope you get it right the first time you do it ’ . |
| 2 | I found it invaluable last time I was doing i b you know if , if you say to somebody y you know come beforehand with what you 're doing well , what , where the difficulties are , what the obstacles are . |
| 3 | I found it interesting last night because of course my reaction to all that was imagine how Gillette did it matter ? |
| 4 | Well I actually went back and said I do n't think it 's going to cost anything , I told him original twenty four thou- , and I 've halved it too about twelve thou . |
| 5 | I spelt it wrong that 's why I spelt it Spanish Nouveau riche either . |
| 6 | I forgot them little green men . |
| 7 | My love for Rosalind was nothing compared to Juliet when I saw her beautiful dazzling |
| 8 | I thought you skinny little rake . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought you fashionable young men never got up until the afternoon , ’ she said . |
| 10 | me , I , I got , I took me old three put out the other day and so they said got your |
| 11 | He did this with very little effort , and I gave him small wooden cubes so that he could make a cube to keep . |
| 12 | No he you know I did it wrong that time ? |
| 13 | ‘ That 's why I left you alone that evening , because I needed time to sort things out in my own mind . ’ |
| 14 | You got them lovely red berries |
| 15 | ‘ You made me open this window under false pretences , Aunt Becky . ’ |
| 16 | She pulled her long dark hair from inside her flying jacket and began to walk to the outskirts of Grantley . |
| 17 | They gave you half-a-crown each for your lunch every day , four old pence for coffee and four old pence for tea in the afternoon . |
| 18 | She began again to caress him ; rose to sit kittenishly in his lap , but she was as clumsy at this babying as she was grand at being leopardine , and he found it possible this time to check his lust ; she bent to blow on his neck and ear , as he liked her to do , but he twisted sharply to avert his head , and struck her on the upper arm to beat her off , and then without another word , his face blazing with the effort of his denial , he turned and left her . |
| 19 | Of course I may be prejudiced — he called me Old Faithful . ’ |
| 20 | Carlson understood the feelings of the rebels ; he thought it unlikely any of their issues would be dealt with here . |
| 21 | She knew it kept her awake these hot nights , restless with a deep and hard yearning that never eased , never went away . |
| 22 | Hatton was so impressed by his bad boys that he gave them colourful 1930s ‘ punk rock ’ pseudonyms — Alf Artful , Billy Dustup and Reggie Smashem — which are no more suggestive of obedience and docility than other pre-war descriptions of brawls , affrays , legless drunks , or street robbers armed with sand-bags and cut-throat razors . |
| 23 | Third , though the agora certainly has a religious aspect — Kleisthenes probably purified it and banned burials there when he gave it new political importance — it also , and equally certainly , was a place where ordinary commerce was carried on , thus Demosthenes ( xviii.169 ) mentions the wicker booths set up for trading there . |