Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let down , their elation leaking away , they had decided to give up , and taken a taxi back to Alice 's mother 's house , where Alice made them both coffee and scrambled eggs . |
| 2 | Donna took a hurried bath , Julie made them some tea and , as the hands on the clock above the open fireplace crawled round to 3.56 , they both sat down , one on either side of the table in the centre of the room . |
| 3 | After I had produced talks and features for a year or so , Jack Radford asked me one day if I would like to take charge of a music show . |
| 4 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 5 | So Parsons got me this job and I used to sit up there and answer the phones . ’ |
| 6 | No I could n't I mean , and these people are Jehovah Witnesses who sold me this house and my feelings about the commercial probity of Jehovah Witnesses are that they have n't any commercial probity . |
| 7 | Nor could he get the Scots and their French allies to the negotiating table ; the French publicly declared for the Scots , and promised them military help if they needed it . |
| 8 | I phoned them last week and said you know have you got any suggestions , and they said they 'd come back to me and they have n't . |
| 9 | Well he phoned me last night and he 's going to phone me again on Sunday afternoon , we get on so well , Brenda I can just the imagine the pair of us tucked up into a four foot bed ! |
| 10 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 11 | and I used them this year and they er I 've got quite a lot of Right furry I was er hoping to get I do n't think these 'll come out somehow . |
| 12 | ALTHOUGH I promised you last week that I 'd bring details of the all Ireland Schools teams competition this week , I 'm afraid that I do n't have full details to hand as yet , so I 'll hold it over to next week . |
| 13 | ALTHOUGH I promised you last week that I 'd bring details of the all Ireland Schools teams competition this week , I 'm afraid that I do n't have full details to hand as yet , so I 'll hold it over to next week . |
| 14 | She did n't mention anything to you when she phoned you last week that she got a letter from me ? |
| 15 | He drew him another map and watched Blunset wander off into the darkness . |
| 16 | Yeah I seen him last night but not to talk to . |
| 17 | She found him another job and is paying for a private nurse . |
| 18 | At the beginning I found it hard work because he did not seem able to concentrate . |
| 19 | I had convinced myself the diet was necessary even though I found it tough going and particularly rough after a major operation and great weight loss . |
| 20 | Played me one day and it played Annabel one day . |
| 21 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 22 | He told me this morning that he thought the boy had been working too hard . ’ |
| 23 | ’ When he told me this morning that I was his prisoner , not his … not anything else , he left two Gharrgoyles to guard me . |
| 24 | Finally , speaking in a low voice , the boy said : ‘ There 's something you do n't know : dad told me this morning that he was in bed when I got home last night . ’ |
| 25 | He told me this week that he was convinced by West 's ‘ karate theory ’ at the time . |
| 26 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 27 | A leading textile and clothing employer told me last night that if we implemented the social clause it could cost thousands of jobs within his company . |
| 28 | They told me last night that he had been arrested . |
| 29 | ‘ No , nor could her father — or so Mandeville told me last night after you had retired . |
| 30 | You probably told me last night but I ca n't remember , I was just off |