Example sentences of "[pers pn] [num] evening " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do hope you do n't think this is presumptuous , and I expect you are very busy generally , but perhaps you and your husband would like to come here for supper one evening , or we could go out somewhere , or if it 's easier , I could drop in to you one evening for a short time for a chat . |
| 2 | pick you up and meet you one evening . |
| 3 | The family could not speak English and my schoolboy French was almost exhausted so I bade them good afternoon but managed to make them understand that I would have dinner with them one evening soon — ‘ An English dinner . ’ |
| 4 | A group of vengeful noblemen invited him to dine with them one evening , served him poisoned food and wine and then set about murdering him — a process that was anything but straightforward . |
| 5 | He designed that look for Susan Foreman , and indeed arranged to open his shop specially for me one evening so I could be ready for the production day next morning . |
| 6 | He telephoned me one evening to tell me that the Labour Party had decided to use an extract from it in their manifesto . |
| 7 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 8 | And the maintenance engineer at Ffestiniog , Mr , I know him very well , he came here er like you did downstairs , come to see me one evening . |
| 9 | When , diffidently , he asked her if she would like to go to the pictures with him one evening , her immediate acceptance seemed to surprise them both . |
| 10 | ‘ I went to see him one evening and asked to borrow it . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He said something about our having a drink with him one evening . ’ |
| 12 | She had been his nurse when he was a little boy , she had told Sally-Anne when they were preparing dinner for him one evening . |
| 13 | Finally , infuriated by her own weakness where Adam was concerned , she had turned on him one evening in the club , shaking his hand from her hair as though scorched by his touch . |
| 14 | The solution came to her one evening when Nahum commented on her excessive pallor . |
| 15 | I bumped into her one evening when I was out fetching Dad twopenn'orth of twist . |
| 16 | I saw her one evening , quite a bit later . |
| 17 | The funniest turn of them all took her one evening when , bent on success at all costs , she added a frothing soap powder to her immortal cheese souffle . |
| 18 | You may be sitting with her one evening , quite peacefully , when suddenly she will stand up and say : ‘ Listen ! |
| 19 | She spent the remainder of the week drifting aimlessly from room to room in the house , until her father irritably asked her one evening whether she had nothing better to do . |
| 20 | Gran had noticed it three evenings ago , when they were getting the breakfast things ready , and had pushed it behind one of the geraniums as if she did n't like the sight of it . |
| 21 | On behalf of his wife , Sergeant Troy decided to have it one evening at the end of August , in the great barn . |
| 22 | Dickon told his mother about it one evening as he was digging the cottage garden . |
| 23 | I remember it as I saw it one evening , lit by the setting sun against a background of threatening clouds . |
| 24 | And maybe if you feel up to it one evening this week you could go round and give it a dig up . |
| 25 | It turned out that our candidate , who came to address us one evening , knew my Aunt Kit and had the greatest admiration for her , even though he also knew that the only reason why she had not been offered another , safer constituency after 1945 was that it had become too obvious she was unable to keep off the drink . |