Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My American agent once got me some stuff placed in Reader 's Digest . ’ |
| 2 | Just take a look got me little list knocking round . |
| 3 | In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible . |
| 4 | Well as I say I went for this interview and she phoned me last Sunday did n't she ? |
| 5 | No Ha Hardy phoned me last week asking for the details of jobs we get fr , er of who to erm who to contact for it , that 's all for that needs . |
| 6 | But they stopped them last year did n't they ? |
| 7 | The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ? |
| 8 | The Irish team was lying second to Germany following Friday 's dressage but a fall on cross country by Karen Connelly to incur 60 penalties and a refusal by Sasha Harrison which cost them 20 penalties sent them out of the reckoning . |
| 9 | You had to enter them as foals , and then when you entered them it cost you fifty pounds to enter them , and it cost you fifty pounds for every quarter of that lifetime of that foal . |
| 10 | Her husband found her one day wearing a rose pinned to her gown that was not from his garden , and guessed it was a gift from her lover . |
| 11 | ‘ We also told them that failure to act would help swell the ranks of paramilitary organisations . |
| 12 | And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble saying , this man receives sinners and eats with them , and he told them this parable saying , what man among you , if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them , does not leave the ninety and nine in the open pasture and go out to the one which is lost until he finds it . |
| 13 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |
| 14 | When I asked Lee what 's going on , he told me this guy had met him at the airport and that he had a letter and had said he 'd caddied for Henry Cotton . |
| 15 | ‘ Humber told me Red Leland thinks he 'll make it . ’ |
| 16 | He told me some firm did all the furniture choosing and decorating . |
| 17 | And she told me some character called Steve produced a gun when Newman , the foreign correspondent , interrupted their tete-a-tete . |
| 18 | Well I told you that Fenwicks had and they were cheaper than |
| 19 | Told you last night smoked like hell yesterday afternoon , she coughed her bloody heart up last night . |
| 20 | Mark could hardly believe his ears when , two days before the EPC meeting , Muldoon told him that Nate wanted him to fly out to Istanbul right away . |
| 21 | His instincts finally rang the bell and told him this man had more than a casual interest in what might be going on downstairs . |
| 22 | No doubt something else had diverted his attention , and afforded him another cue to spread confusion everywhere around him . |
| 23 | She imagined him next morning parading in his gallery , cosseting his reputation , toadying to his rich clients , dissociating himself from whatever unpleasantness the Josephs faced . |
| 24 | It seemed her true love had sent her a present from a partridge in a pear tree . |
| 25 | We spent a short time discussing how Sylvia now felt about that long-ago event and whether it caused her any distress to think about it . |
| 26 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |
| 27 | Gran told her that mum had to go into hospital because she was hysterical ! ! |
| 28 | ‘ But Mother went scarlet when the boss 's wife told me what a nice suit I was wearing , and I told her that Mother had spent nearly all night making it . ’ |
| 29 | A few Opposition Members told us that smoking costs the national health service £437 million a year . |
| 30 | That got you all going did n't it , arf arf . |