Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight of them lived their last years in their children 's homes . |
| 2 | Most of them retained their medieval walls and intricate street patterns and they often served as ecclesiastical or secular centres of administration , but their major role was to act as retail , handicraft and distribution points for wide hinterlands . |
| 3 | I tolled him i thort he was rong and that the jokes are abowt as funny as some jokes that are very funny . |
| 4 | I asked myself each time , Why ca n't I make the pot boil ? |
| 5 | I asked myself that question on many occasions and wondered how I was supposed to refresh his and other people 's memories without risking the accusation of going on about it all the time . |
| 6 | Finally I asked what criminal law might contribute to legal theory . |
| 7 | Turning , then , to the relationship of criminal law and legal theory , I asked what legal theory might contribute to criminal law and I dealt with two central issues ; first , the limits of exposition imposed by the nature of legal rules which , I argue , are essentially incomplete and therefore incapable of a final , exhaustive statement ; and , secondly , the nature of methodological purity , where I argue against a tendency to distort data to fit a favoured critical principle . |
| 8 | I asked what young chap , and he gave me a description which tallies with what Sanders told us : about twenty-five , darkish , slightly built . |
| 9 | So erm anyway goes in , I said to him other day , I asked him other week , he says our turn to give me a ring |
| 10 | Well I hope she 'll be interested enough to , but , not really before she 's six , cos I asked him last couple of times ago , he said , what sort of age , cos obviously the size of the hands comes into it , they ca n't do too much , but he said he would n't consider before six and you ough t 'a have to take the parents into consideration , of a child that age you got ta have a parent who 's prepared to sit there and make sure the child does what he 's set them to do , because , oh Amy , you not getting any out of that . |
| 11 | I asked her that night , when the children were in bed . |
| 12 | I asked my own doctor when he came early this morning , but he would n't tell me . ’ |
| 13 | I asked my own surgeon how many of these prostate operations he did in a year , and he said around four hundred . |
| 14 | Both sports were clearly popular and well-established traditions ; but when I asked my Indian friends about their survival in modern Delhi , they all shook their heads . |
| 15 | I asked my old friend , Ricci Burns . |
| 16 | I asked my vital question : ‘ Will it run on XT ? ’ |
| 17 | I asked you that night because I could n't go on not knowing one way or the other . |
| 18 | Remember I asked you this morning to just just after lunch to jot down what it was that you need to improve on just as you 're setting the clock just say something like by the end of this talk I 'd like you to congratulate me on having moved around a bit more having not put me hands in me pockets , whatever it might be . |
| 19 | I asked you last week , mate . ’ |
| 20 | Matilda said , ‘ I am very sorry I asked you those questions , Miss Honey . |
| 21 | I hugged my bursting shins , thinking , Ow , my fucking shins are bursting ! |
| 22 | Back at Stuart Street I cemented my new-found friendship with Doogie and Miranda by presenting them with the leg of lamb . |
| 23 | I made myself some medicine , some er honey , glycerine and apple cider vinegar . |
| 24 | I made myself another coffee , extended myself on the sofa — my legs quivery with fatigue — opened the folder , pulled out the sheets of paper and started to read . |
| 25 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 26 | I made him some tea and supper while he bathed and changed and unpacked his things in my bedroom . |
| 27 | ‘ I made me second team debut when I was eight year old , ’ he claims . |
| 28 | I made her some coffee and she sat and watched while Doone picked a piece of paper out of his breast pocket and handed it to Sam . |
| 29 | I made one many years ago and found it worked very well . |
| 30 | I made you some notes , as well . ’ |