Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes and er I er they got me on that and I 'd er seen a bit on it before hand one way or another , but I went to a place and , and asked them if I could er see and er they showed me and explained it , the er the way to er . |
| 2 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 3 | Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time . |
| 4 | One of which was the property in Frinton which was owned jointly by Mr and his step mother who was an elderly lady who was then residing in that er property and er around that time on the first of October Mr er telephoned Mr and er told him about that but at that time , was not anticipating that there would be an difficulties about the security on Frinton for these he had always , added his case , made it perfectly clear to the man at the National Westminster Bank with whom he was dealing , Mr that that property was not a property which er could er be offered as security because of the joint ownership and er while in conversation with the bank he understood that this letter had been sent and Mrs had been on holiday and that it was simply oversight on the part of the bank at this stage and that all would well after Mrs returned , which was expected in two weeks time . |
| 5 | He is , after all , the Chairman of that committee but certainly I advised him against that and I thought it was totally wrong er to do it in the way he did and I , I think it was a shame for this Council that he , that he did go ahead , but there you are . |
| 6 | She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair . |
| 7 | And the fact is Jimi just turned me on more than anybody else , for his music . |
| 8 | Instead of him being a mate , I loathed him after that until I got used to the idea . |
| 9 | He gathered six double sheets from the drenched berths , folded them in half and left them by the companionway . |
| 10 | ‘ I was a bit overwhelmed when she kissed me like that because we 'd never met before and it was in public . |
| 11 | She thanked him for that as well . |
| 12 | They were in , aha , yeah , they were in bed , right , and this , look , in bed , listen to this , sound asleep it 's on the radio and news , they 're asleep in bed with two girls and the boys , the boy was in bed fast asleep and somebody come and touched him like that and when she woke up it was this , this the lad |
| 13 | And we used to have what they call er a stick and goos it used to I remember we used to have sti what you call stick and goos It was like a great long thing like that and you used to have a stick and it used to be on the floor and you just tap it and and hit it like that and it goes |
| 14 | I asked him for more but he said that with the family allowance we had the same . |
| 15 | Erm oh I asked him about that when I went and he said it were nothing to worry about , it 's just |
| 16 | When I had occasion to talk to the Home Secretary about this , I asked him about this and he said oh , we want it to be local and I said you mean local not region and he said yes , local and I hope my noble friend who was there will remember that when he comes to decide whether this region things ever going to get a running . |
| 17 | I realized what a marvellous actor he was when I saw him in this and only wished that he had n't relied so much on the funny voices and hidden behind the easier way out of doing the characters that he could do so easily — and it was easy for him . |
| 18 | Well when you saw it without that after you 've sawn it you 've got ta |
| 19 | Deane picked the ball up outside the area and run diagonally at goal , beat 2 or 3 defenders and took it past another but the ball was running away and Speed came in and hit it with his right foot . |
| 20 | Sweden more than doubled its crop area between 1840 and 1880 , Italy and Denmark expanded it by more than half , Russia , Germany and Hungary by about a third . |
| 21 | He reminded me of this as we sat on the beach watching Ted and Carwyn having their hopes dashed on the Pipeline reef . |
| 22 | When Mrs Thatcher first came into power , she got hold of the pound note , held it up and tore it in half and then tore it into a quarter , and she said this is what the pound 's worth under the Labour government . |
| 23 | You despised me for that and finally told me you hated me . |
| 24 | But they had them like this and they were square and oblong . |
| 25 | A powerful backblast blew one coating of dust from his clothes and replaced it with another that was tinged with soot . |
| 26 | The theory of the ISAs would indeed be very crude if Althusser left it at that but he completes the essay with a discussion of ideology , the mode in which the ISAs function . |
| 27 | The Inspector left it at that and as I was waiting expectantly for the interview to end , he said : ‘ Why does an educated man like you spend his time caddying ? |
| 28 | They 've taken his dabs and examined the mallet , but we left it at that when we knew the Yard had been called in and you were on your way . |
| 29 | Well they ran it like that cos they said at the bar we can sell you a bottle of wine for seven pound fifty though , so he said you bugger off he said that , went down the supermarket and get our own like |
| 30 | And wrote it like that and published it like that . |