Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [pers pn] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frith made all the animals and birds , but when he first made them they were all the same . |
| 2 | I do n't know , I never asked them I 'm sorry ! |
| 3 | But when Shannon tried them she was dismayed to find her usual easy grace had deserted her , leaving her clumsy and uncoordinated , like a new-born foal still trying to come to terms with its own legs . |
| 4 | ‘ It was the money grandfather promised me I was worried about . |
| 5 | Erm was this something that you talked about with your husband when you found you you were pregnant , erm did you discuss it with him at all ? |
| 6 | Er the Doctor provided the medicine and if he visited you it was seven and sixpence each visit , and if you went to his surgery , I think it was four an either four and six , or three and six . |
| 7 | But they stopped it I 'm sure twenty years ago . |
| 8 | Clutching a handkerchief to his own face , he felt blood over his eye but he assured them it was superficial , and gave instructions which were followed to the letter . |
| 9 | Silver waved the map in front of them and told them they were stupid . |
| 10 | Their friends told them they were crazy , it sold for a nickel and nobody , they discovered , had the curiosity to buy it although it did make all the local Greenwich Village news-stands . |
| 11 | In November church bells were rung to celebrate the victory at El Alamein , and everyone felt that at last the war might be near the end , although Churchill told them they were wrong . |
| 12 | The staff in Peter Robinson 's knew her , and in case they queried the propriety of her being there alone , she showed them her wedding ring and told them she was married . |
| 13 | I told them it was urgent , but I do n't think your van does you on Tuesdays . |
| 14 | The SWWA told them it was safe to drink . |
| 15 | I told them I was late , picked up the shafts and left them to it . |
| 16 | ‘ I joined the Argyll 's in Paisley in 1939 at the age of 16 , I told them I was 17 ! |
| 17 | ‘ This time I told them I was available but , quite frankly , I have n't been asked , ’ he says . |
| 18 | When they phoned me back I told them I was ill , made profuse apologies and asked if one of the other celebrities could open the helpline . |
| 19 | ‘ I told them I was prepared to answer emergencies for no pay and I 'm staying on until the end of my shift . |
| 20 | I told them I was transexual … maybe that was a mistake because the prosecution service laid the charges for an attack not on a woman but on a man |
| 21 | He told them he was unhappy about the way the bus was being driven on its route from Kent to central London . |
| 22 | He told them he was unable to account for the error . |
| 23 | Runciman was not interested and Hughes told them he was busy turning round his company , which had temporarily bombed — an ideal qualification in retrospect . |
| 24 | All right , I shall have to confess , although you may be angry with me , Jane — as angry as you were last night , when you told me we were equal . |
| 25 | Somebody told me we were halfway to Maun and gave me some water which I was too thirsty to sterilise . |
| 26 | The doctor told me they were strong : in fact he prescribed them for me but it seems more logical to give them to Mum since it 's her that stops me sleeping . |
| 27 | I would have been pleased to own any of these , but after they were finished she told me they were all ordered . |
| 28 | Oh yes , they were all fed properly , looked after alright , but they all , they told me they were all pedigrees but I doubt cos I do n't know whether that 's the truth , but they reckon in Poland when things were bad , when they unload them , they 'd make some excuse that one of these pigs got out and run away and course they used to catch it er , somewhere they used to catch it and that was their fee then . |
| 29 | ‘ Taki told me they were all sitting at a table telling jokes over dinner when suddenly there was a royal command — a spoon tinkling on a glass . |
| 30 | She told me they were both being organised by the Sicilian Mafia . |