Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a typically Chinese way , when I was discharged , the doctor who had treated me escorted me to the car , and shook hands and asked if I had any complaints , as he knew the hospital left plenty of room for improvement . |
| 2 | I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head . |
| 3 | It 'll slide on ca I mean I moved it into the corner so that erm |
| 4 | I mean I found it in the past , you know any infection what so ever just knocks you for six . |
| 5 | People say I kicked him in the head but there is no way I would do that . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps it 's new , she bought I expect she bought it in the States I should think . |
| 7 | ‘ And you say she kept it in a drawer ? ’ |
| 8 | Say she enticed him into the woods and became demanding in every way and heavily emotional , piling on pressure . |
| 9 | Say you lost him in the crowd . |
| 10 | Behrend who entertained us in the Officers ' Mess for an evening meal and breakfast . |
| 11 | But surprising the people that you do n't realise , you know , it troubles the parents and as I say they took them to a number of specialists and given different things |
| 12 | ‘ I expect he did it for the insurance , ’ Dangerfield said . |
| 13 | Some say he took it from an Indian funeral chant , others from a poem by a U.S. poet Mary Fry , though no one seems to know anything else about the lady . |
| 14 | As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require . |
| 15 | In a sense this was so , but on the other hand the activity of town planning soon got bogged down in a technical bureaucracy , losing the dash and verve which sustained it during the 1940s . |
| 16 | Judging from your usual acerbic frame of mind , I imagine you flushed them down the sink long ago . ’ |
| 17 | She says they condemned her to a lifetime of pain and disability . |
| 18 | He says they asked her to the disco . |
| 19 | The tale of Simon the Athenian appears in Samuel Sharp 's History of Stamford of 1847 , where he says he found it in a ‘ quaint old black-letter record ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Several people who were present say he was n't , and a cabby says he delivered him to the Post on Friday afternoon . |
| 21 | When it was done he ordered her into the sleeping-bag . |
| 22 | ‘ You mean you wanted me from the moment you saw me ? ’ |
| 23 | Very glad to see you made it on the list , James . |
| 24 | And handed them handed them to the people . |
| 25 | Would you believe I found it on a stall in the flea market only last week ? ’ |
| 26 | He tapped her on the shoulder-Excuse me — and when she turned he took her by the wrist and round the waist , holding her close , whisking her on to the floor . |
| 27 | Then one day Mr Flowerdew he went out and bought a horse , a rather special horse ; and when he wanted it shod he sent it to the blacksmith shop at Scole , Mr Woodcock 's . |
| 28 | I spect someone chucked it off the bridge . |
| 29 | Once the fry hatched I moved them into a tank of their own . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't believe it … definitely the Hamlet if I want it — I 've worked with those people before ; remember I told you about the provincial-theatre year ? ’ she said , scrambling her words . |