Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a lovely [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hired a lovely secretary called Cats to help me cope with the mail , thinking at first of compiling a form letter , but they all merit a personal reply , so from 10 a.m. between shows until 10 p.m . |
| 2 | I developed a lovely friendship with a woman co-worker named Yawadee , who everyone calls ‘ Dang ’ which means ‘ red ’ in Thai . |
| 3 | I remember a lovely lady who attended my slimming club years ago . |
| 4 | There have been lots of others , of course , and I remember a lovely beast called Daisy who would have been grand . |
| 5 | I heard a lovely tale this week . |
| 6 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 7 | no it 's fine , I had a lovely drink over there , I 've just left it |
| 8 | I had a lovely lunch I just thought I 'd try and get my own way for once . |
| 9 | I had a lovely seat in the front row of the circle , beside Sir Roger Falk , a most entertaining companion who was Chairman of the Sadler 's Wells Foundation for ten years , and is now Vice-President of the Foundation , for which Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother is patron , and Princess Margaret is President . |
| 10 | I had a lovely round . ’ |
| 11 | So I , I erm , I had a lovely walk through there , and then we went out the other side of it , and it 's Highgate Cemetery . |
| 12 | I had a lovely time . ’ |
| 13 | And now I had a lovely fellow I 'd grown up with in the same village , the same sort of background , we 'd known each other since we were eleven , twelve , |
| 14 | I have a lovely plant of Rosa glauca which is often admired by my friends . |
| 15 | And ten when you lose a lovely girl you wonder still , you know why you , if that was punishment . |
| 16 | Last year , remember , she did up some of the bedrooms and had them decorated , her brother decorated them and also she did the erm the tables , remember , she stripped back some tables and varnished them and she made a lovely job . |
| 17 | She made a lovely speech . |
| 18 | Oh , and she got a lovely video made of her wedding day . ’ |
| 19 | Some of you may remember her because we stayed at her hotel er a little while ago and she has a lovely horse chestnut tree er outside her hotel and since we went it stopped producing conkers . |
| 20 | Again , she has a lovely touch on the greens , with her nine putts for her first-half 30 on Saturday a record on the LPGA tour . |
| 21 | Have you had a lovely week darling ? |
| 22 | ‘ Where 's Tom ? ’ she heard a lovely brunette ask Faye . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't you have a lovely house ! ’ she would say wistfully and Annabel Hogan would smile , pleased , and congratulate herself on having brought these two together . |
| 24 | I bet you looked a lovely boy ! |
| 25 | Gran said , ‘ She had a lovely face , and hair as fair as a baby 's , long enough to sit on . |
| 26 | Gran was lovely — I know she was old and had awful clothes , but everyone loved her and she had a lovely face , like a statue . ’ |
| 27 | She had a lovely contralto voice . |
| 28 | Suddenly they laughed together , and he looked at her , really looked at her , for the first time , and he saw that she had a lovely set of teeth . |
| 29 | Last year she had a lovely crop from her plot , which measures about 2ft by 3ft ; this year she dug it over in plenty of time for May 4 , the day on which she sows on the basis of an old saying : ‘ the 4th of May is kidney bean day ’ . |
| 30 | And then across the road she went afterwards , to that there , She had a lovely time there . |