Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About a week later I met Mr Jaggers by chance in the street , and he invited me to dinner that evening . |
| 2 | Roy signed for aspiring Ipswich Town , then still of the 3rd Division , but helped them into Division Two the next season and then on to the 1st Division Championship . |
| 3 | She stopped me in town funny enough erm oh a good couple of weeks ago like , she says to me oh have you heard , cos I was saying about oh we 'd seen something in the shop , it was ever so nice , I said oh I 'm too fat for that she said ooh have you seen , she must be erm infat you know bloody infatuated with dieting |
| 4 | I caught him at work one day , myself |
| 5 | In fact the defragmenter , Speedisk , is so good that Microsoft bought it and built it into MS-DOS 6 . |
| 6 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 7 | He installed a steam engine and boiler from Saverys of Tewkesbury and used it to power three pairs of stones and flour dressing equipment . |
| 8 | ‘ I hear you 're planning to retire so you can concentrate on writing , ’ Charles told me over tea one afternoon . |
| 9 | The President told me in person last night . |
| 10 | Then , turning on Perdita : ‘ You stupid b-b-bitch , I told you to double-bolt those doors . ’ |
| 11 | Within a few months , in late 1954 , the Senate censured him and although Nixon , his loyal backer in the past , considerately struck out the word Censure from the resolution , which condemned him for conduct unbecoming to the Senate , he was finished in Washington . |
| 12 | Mezzadri , a Swiss coming back from a knee injury that dropped him from No 26 to 305 in the rankings in 1989 , overpowered Korda with a steady flow of crushing forehands and big serves . |
| 13 | SUNDERLAND ambulanceman Ian Archbold played it by ear last night to win the North-East Championships 10,000 metres in convincing style at the Cleveland County Stadium , Middlesbrough . |
| 14 | ‘ I hear you 're thinking of retiring , ’ David Knell informed me over coffee one morning . |
| 15 | That was why Simon Draper was appalled , horrified and dumbstruck when Richard Branson telephoned him at home one Sunday evening in March 1984 , gushing enthusiasm for another idea . |
| 16 | They joined us for breakfast that first sunny morning on the terrace of our secluded villa tucked amid the pine trees by the sparkling blue sea . |
| 17 | You see the St Giles taught me to type first of all |
| 18 | It placed me in power eighteen months ago by the largest majority accorded to any party for many , many years . |
| 19 | Howey 's career has been transformed since former boss Ossie Ardiles switched him to centre half last season . |
| 20 | Oh are you well I 'll give you a a , I lost it at lunchtime ex-Radio Virgin certificate for being a first time on and er I 'd like to say it 's been a pleasure . |
| 21 | ’ I met her in town one day last week . |
| 22 | She 'd have to take off her thick blue jersey soon , and she could n't remember how many buttons had come off the shirt underneath , and it was sleeveless , and she had n't shaved her armpits since Philippa asked her to supper last week . |
| 23 | Anyone who saw them with Soul II Soul will have some idea of what to expect , but not the whole story . |
| 24 | We can test this if we compare the human character of Jesus to our own personalities , as we saw them in chapter one . |
| 25 | When they were younger , one of them said : ‘ Daddy , I saw you on television this morning . |
| 26 | And there was no repeat of the last-gasp disaster which struck the Spanish star three years ago , when a transmission problem robbed him of victory three stages from the finish . |
| 27 | The Russians obviously knew who he was and kept him under surveillance all the time . |
| 28 | ‘ I saw her on television this morning filmed at the polling station . |
| 29 | oh I saw her in Agony that Agony was er |
| 30 | Daniel Field wrote in 1976 that " The fear of peasant unrest … can not be shown to have been decisive in the decision to emancipate " , but Larisa Zakharova took him to task eight years later for failing to explain the emancipation in terms of " the fear of a peasant rising or the moods and struggle of the peasantry " . |