Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | Then I phoned up the police — I phoned them up two or three times — and told them I 'd done it , but they would n't believe me . |
2 | She had a daughter , Rosemary Worty , who looked up to me because I locked her up one night . |
3 | But I called him up one day and asked him how he was doing and he said things were pretty good , so I asked if he still wanted to do that album . |
4 | ‘ The music company wanted new product fast before the headster time ended so I dashed it off one afternoon after I 'd dropped some A. Goodness , some of the interpretations people came up with ! |
5 | When it was delivered — Rob and I took it over one evening — it looked pretty good against all the shawls and old textiles that Elise had spread around the room . |
6 | During that time I had them out three times because I thought I 'd make them see . |
7 | She got them out one of everything and showed them all the different fish . |
8 | Yeah cos she used to get me t , and then she rang me up one day when I was and said dad erm dad ca n't bring me round there cos the car 's not working , can you come and pick me up ? |
9 | As agreements between insurers and mortgage lenders run on short contracts , the insurers can alter conditions or stop offering policies altogether , often at a month 's notice , leaving your mortgage unprotected whether you took it out six months or several years ago . |
10 | It was fine when we had it out two weeks ago . |
11 | they must before that they moved them out five or six years . |
12 | I think they paid him out thirty thousand or something like that . |
13 | They brought her out thirty hours later , though she had no idea how much time had passed . |
14 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
15 | Rushing to buy the dollar ( mainly by selling D-marks ) to cover their dollar loans , they pushed it up four pfennigs within an hour . |
16 | He led us up four flights of dark , narrow stairs , before disappearing up a rickety ladder out on to the roof . |
17 | He followed her down one quiet suburban street after another till they approached the busy main road . |
18 | So he said he rung him back six o'clock that night and he 'd sort of calmed down a bit . |
19 | Party Politics , known as an equine giant in racing circles because of his massive size , was cruising when he took it up four fences from home , and winning jockey Carl Llewellyn later admitted that his chief concern at that stage had been striking the front too early . |