Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all in their early twenties when I asked them to join Bègles ’ , said Appriou . |
| 2 | Before anyone commenced the diet I asked them to seek approval from their G.P. There was no doubt from the comments I received that their doctors were delighted with the format of the diet and were equally delighted with the results it achieved . |
| 3 | Then I rang Pusey : it was time , I felt , that we had a conference , and I asked him to get hold of Seddon and , if possible , someone from his old acquaintances at the Foreign Office who would know about current politics in North and West Africa . |
| 4 | So , if I asked you to describe paper to someone who had never seen it before , you might suggest they visualise it as a sort of hard , smooth ‘ cloth ’ . |
| 5 | You remember , how once in my self-unconfidence , I asked you to take care of me until my age settled into true understanding of love ? |
| 6 | We are dealing , with respect , we are dealing , I asked you to raise questions on the social services committee . |
| 7 | I overheard her telling Delia . ’ |
| 8 | The next day I overheard her telling Mother about how that spasmo ballet company had cancelled the rest of their performances and gone home . |
| 9 | I made myself eat liver — they hate liver — and I gave up the odd episode of ‘ Coronation Street ’ to read them Rudyard Kipling — with actions and funny voices . |
| 10 | I made him shake hands , but I bet he breathed a sigh of relief when he got outside again . |
| 11 | So I , I made him swap places as , er , with Bryony and of course he wou he was n't sitting there ! |
| 12 | I made him wait hours . |
| 13 | Then I made one last journey through the house , the precincts , and the gardens , to see that all was as it should be , and to say goodbye . |
| 14 | I made one last effort to see if my parachute was still there , and to my amazement and relief found it had not been torn off after all . |
| 15 | No I do n't I made it like mug soup not plain soup . |
| 16 | Again , I realized I needed evidence myself if I were to risk cals about their success . |
| 17 | I got my Connect card through this morning . |
| 18 | So I got I got Friday to pay and that 's ten months . |
| 19 | I Children 's World and I got I got books . |
| 20 | I got I got carbon dioxide given off |
| 21 | And that 's another thing I mean where erm as I got I mean cleaning was sort of a a spring clean was springtime and that was it . |
| 22 | From an early age I expected them to do things for themselves , and sometimes for me , and when they snivelled about their friends having kind and conscientious mothers who changed their sheets and made fruit pies , I said ‘ Some day , when you 're at Sunderland Polytechnic and living by your wits , you 'll thank me . ’ |
| 23 | If ever I was tempted by the seductive stasis of an eidetic image , I punctured its reflecting skin with a dart and tore it away to reveal the structure of habit below . |
| 24 | Next , I found myself passing Green 's cinema , Jacob 's butcher-shop , then Gorbals Cross . |
| 25 | Eventually , taking my cue as previously coached , I found myself shaking hands with Prince Charles . |
| 26 | Having made such an analysis of the situation , it was not long before I found myself reconsidering Mr Farraday 's kind suggestion of some days ago . |
| 27 | I think I 'd call it a day long before I found myself turning part of my humble dwelling into the bridge of the Starship Enterprise , but one thing is certain : I 'd have Julian Colbeck 's video series close at hand before boldly going forth ! |
| 28 | I found myself liking Henniker — he was a few years older than I am , and had served in the war as an AA gunner . |
| 29 | What made it worse was that in order to explain the frustrations that I had experienced I found myself making stereotyping judgments about Africans as lazy — not even caring to look after themselves — and as unreliable . |
| 30 | I found myself making cat suits with flared trousers . |