Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assurance with which Gothic schemes were presented made them the obvious alternative to Second Empire , but large secular Gothic buildings of this type were an unknown quantity . |
| 2 | My grandson asked me the other morning , when was I gon na die ? |
| 3 | It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level . |
| 4 | They told me to stay there until they came and got me the following day — which I did n't . |
| 5 | Be having another now cos he read them the other day . |
| 6 | We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff . |
| 7 | And he either phoned me the following morning or if it was n't the following morning it was the one after that . |
| 8 | Well as I say , the police stopped them the other morning and one of the lads had a chat with the driver and all this and he carried on . |
| 9 | Yeah , yeah they mentioned you the other day at Eddy just said to him you know , |
| 10 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
| 11 | And apparently she phoned her the other night at half past twelve and said can you come and pick me up ? said no . |
| 12 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 13 | He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month . |
| 14 | But he says to he phoned him the other day on my down this morning ha so just to say , you know , that was crime of the century ! |
| 15 | And he he caught her the other day , she was putting them out for the birds , she do n't like them but she said . |
| 16 | Christina cringed as Susanna pronounced it the American way . |
| 17 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 18 | ‘ I knew Faye had some complications and needed a nurse — Tom mentioned it the other day — but I had no idea you were a sort of watchdog as well . |
| 19 | Having said she would never teach she found it the only way to keep up her Mathematics and bring up a family , so via an evening Technical College Lectureship she slipped into school teaching and has enjoyed it ! |
| 20 | Changed it the other way round . |
| 21 | Later , when Frankie and Liza , my brother and sister , came in from playing I told them the sad news , but they did n't seem very upset . |
| 22 | He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’ |
| 23 | Later in the evening , when the sheep and cows were in , and the family was sitting round the fire , Śa kar told them the whole story of what had happened . |
| 24 | After all , you were n't overly concerned about my feelings when you interviewed me the other day , were you ? ’ |
| 25 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |
| 26 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 27 | My ever difficult told me the other night I needed to change my attitudes and lifestyle and to realise I would not get another job at my age . |
| 28 | One of the tragedies to that it has now become so expensive but is very difficult but not because it was sponsored but somebody told me the other night that the Billy Connolly programme excuse me Billy Connolly programme about art and culture was |
| 29 | They told , Diane told me the other night though , she 's had three years that she should n't have had . |
| 30 | He told me , he told me the other night . |