Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he held her from behind , Tom 's hips and thighs were solid against the thinly covered curves of her lower torso , and as usual the contact between them made her immediately weak and speechless . |
| 2 | So I asked myself why less sensitive tackle should be more successful than anything else . |
| 3 | When I spoke to some of these women alone much later I asked them why Asian women often reacted like this ; their answers were that it was good for a man 's Izzat . |
| 4 | I asked them how old she was ? |
| 5 | I asked him why this change of heart and he said that it was because Harold Wilson had seen fit to put her in the Lords . |
| 6 | As we ate , I asked him about 45 Marine Commando casualties since the landing . |
| 7 | But when I asked him how much of the land of the state of Israel might potentially have two claimants — an Arab and a Jew holding respectively a British mandate and an Israeli deed to the same property — he said he figure was accurate — and it should be remembered that over half of Israel in 1948 consisted of the Negev desert — then it suggested that Arabs owned a far greater proportion of that part of Palestine which became Israel than has previously been imagined . |
| 8 | I asked him how much was remaining in his tanks . |
| 9 | He wanted to know why , so I asked him how much he knew about me . |
| 10 | I first talked about the war with my father on a train outside Bognor Regis , when I asked him how many Germans he had killed . |
| 11 | I asked him how many houses had been completed in 1991 , and I will tell him the answer . |
| 12 | I asked him how good his pianissimo was . |
| 13 | I asked her why this was . |
| 14 | I asked her how much writing she had lately done , and she laughed , and said she was learning so much , so very much , and when it was all learned she should have new matter to write about and many new things to say . |
| 15 | When Sal stopped sobbing , I asked her how much she remembered about the accident . |
| 16 | Well I asked her how much you owed and she said thirty one ninety five |
| 17 | When I asked her how easy or difficult she had found the exercise , Sylvia told me that she had been quite surprised at how simple it had been . |
| 18 | No sooner had I equipped Gillian and her Squire with a cup of Formosa Oolong than I asked her how old she was , what she did , and whether her parents were still alive . |
| 19 | Well sometimes when I was asking you things like erm say if I asked you how many quarters to make a whole one ? |
| 20 | and er you know I I read them fairly straightforward |
| 21 | I made myself pretty busy : got pissed , went and screamed at Jamie , saw a million movies , realised with horror that that ate up only a week . |
| 22 | I made myself very small as the stags crashed down the heathery , birch-studded hillside . |
| 23 | I made myself very clear about that . |
| 24 | I made myself as small as I could and waited to hear what Mama would say . |
| 25 | I made myself as comfortable as possible on the floor of the trench , wrapping the camouflage square round my head and face in a vain attempt at protection against the mosquitoes . |
| 26 | Erm , so Jan had these butties , she said oh I made them lovingly last night , tuna , mayonnaise and onion and er she said trust Viv to ring today like when I 'd made these butties ! |
| 27 | ‘ But I made it absolutely clear how frail you were … that it was imperative that she come here … ’ |
| 28 | I made it absolutely clear that , when we know precisely what happened in that case and can draw the lessons from it , we shall be willing to learn them and take note of the need for future action , if that is shown to be necessary . |
| 29 | But I made it perfectly clear — or at least I thought I did , ’ Blufton added , spreading his palms in a gesture of openness , ‘ that I was n't actually offering her the job . |
| 30 | My Lords , I think I made it perfectly clear what I did mean er I did qualify it by saying that of course there are times when patients do have to wait on trolleys for diagnostic purposes , for observation and for other reasons er but once an admission has been agreed , then that patient should be admitted , that is our policy and that is what we 're working towards . |