Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they got me this lovely velvet one . |
| 2 | Otley made me some hot milk and honey and helped himself to a cheese and pickle sandwich and a mug of strong coffee . |
| 3 | Nobody likes to have their freedom taken away from them , but all the abuse and everything they threw at me — it just made me stronger each time . |
| 4 | ‘ You made me open this window under false pretences , Aunt Becky . ’ |
| 5 | erm he did n't think they had any bilingual signs and they did n't have they were n't using their Portakabins so they scrapped them all last year sold them off . |
| 6 | Damien Cronin made his one telling burst of the match … and that was enough to open the way for Ronnie Eriksson to score … |
| 7 | she charged them two hundred pound yeah . |
| 8 | ‘ She never promised me that first time , so she 's never broken her promise to me yet . |
| 9 | She dressed soberly , changed her clothes less often , coiled her long dark hair into its usual long glossy package which lay so neatly upon her neck . |
| 10 | The men turned and entered her paint-peeled front door . |
| 11 | She bore him one posthumous son . |
| 12 | A woman drew her long black hair out tight |
| 13 | " Lorne Guyland said that Mr Goodney promised him three long love scenes , with full nudity . " |
| 14 | By the end of February he was on a second hours ' exercise , and Sister Cooney , who had watched his restless pacing and had seen that he was bored , found him some light work to do . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She 'd been ashamed to find that she found it such exhausting work , especially without the broad shoulders of Ross to lean on . |
| 18 | I found it interesting last night because of course my reaction to all that was imagine how Gillette did it matter ? |
| 19 | But it cost us thirty seven pound a month . |
| 20 | This Indenture made ye twenty fourth day of February and in ye Eleventh year of ye Reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne of England Scotland France and Ireland Queen Defender of ye Faith etc . |
| 21 | He advised me that normal meningitis , the kind that affects young kids , is much worse . |
| 22 | It was very , very close , the difference was two or three big points , he just played them that little bit better . ’ |
| 23 | He told them another long joke and won a laugh out of Bella that sealed the success of the evening for him . |
| 24 | In fact the professional golfers almost took a back seat , and it always afforded me some wry amusement when Ryder Cup golfers of repute were ignored by the spectators who were intent on getting the autograph of some star from a television soap opera . |
| 25 | They told me that sexual examination is a routine part of the entry certificate procedure at British Diplomatic missions in the Indian subcontinent . |
| 26 | Tony Ruffell , chief executive of Nottinghamshire FHSA , told me that preliminary research in the county suggested that each general practitioner would encounter only a few such difficult decisions a year — perhaps five or six . |
| 27 | Inside , the elderly English upper-class proprietor told me that true Communism only survives in Albania . |
| 28 | Maurice told me that last winter he had to borrow a candle from Dreadnought to unfreeze the lock of his woodstore . |
| 29 | She told me that last week ! |
| 30 | " You told me that last month , so you did . " |