Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I asked him about that particular morning 's exercise with the coastguard helicopter . |
| 2 | Nevertheless I always accepted with gratitude the milk which the shepherd offered me , as the expression of his love , but since , being pure spirit , I do not need the milk , I shared it with this little fox , who is very fond of milk . " |
| 3 | I used them on many rainy days , and never once suffered from wet feet . |
| 4 | The Muslim Palestinian defenders of Beaufort were ignorant of all this , sitting around the walls in silence when I told them of this historical the old tale of fear , treachery and pain . |
| 5 | That was Michael Willis 's line whenever I told him about some fresh disaster in the surf . |
| 6 | Well , this , I told you about this French boy that phoned , that contacted me , he 's erm , my name is , I 'm nineteen , I 'm a student at Harlow College , I 'm studying English foreign language and Law A Level , if there 's an Amnesty International I would like to set up a group in the college I hope you 're involved in local groups are writing you to receive about me , and information about the local group . |
| 7 | I buried him in that beautiful valley of winding waters . |
| 8 | Then I asked her , I could n't help it , I asked her , I said ‘ Never mind the photocopy , ’ I said , ‘ Let me ask you , was the cock tracing I showed you in any slight way arousing ? |
| 9 | Perhaps this was why I turned myself into some happy-snap Diane Arbus , seizing the camera and cavorting mirthfully in search of an angle which would set off Stuart 's embryonically goitrous condition to a satirical T. Displacement activity . |
| 10 | And Clarke said : ‘ I heard nothing about this supposed realignment until well after Black Wednesday . ’ |
| 11 | But then — in view of the fact that you already had a boyfriend — I acquitted her of any devious motives . ’ |
| 12 | I treated myself to some dried dates — very ‘ more-ish ’ so they have been guzzled by this Sunday evening ! |
| 13 | I knew nothing about this convicting work of the Spirit in her , until a week later when she rang me from Halifax and asked , ‘ Does God really harden people 's hearts ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And I shall need a bigger wardrobe ; I think I saw one in that other bedroom . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I had to coax two into it because they are not very experienced cook , but I chose them for that very reason , ’ he says . |
| 16 | Obviously if someone put me onto some good night fishing that would be different . |
| 17 | I dressed him in this huge pink shirt with maroon spots on , with a big maroon and pink ruff and little knee britches in grey with red velvet stripes on them . |
| 18 | Andrew I said something about stiff right , and he goes what ? |
| 19 | Now Sunday when I had her about that terrific barking , your father was the first to say , look she stopped it |
| 20 | One year new chain and I had it in that little on the tree ? |
| 21 | ‘ I mourned it for two whole days when it died . ’ |
| 22 | I bought a really cheap gooseberry bush from a local store , making sure I picked one with good straight uncut stems ( I think its variety was ‘ Leveller ’ ) . |
| 23 | After some wandering among nurseless cradles I recognized him by some unsuspected instinct — a pallid moustached old baby . |
| 24 | We may eventually come to think in terms of a Minoan Universal Spirit , which manifested itself in many different transformations , each with a different name , character , and function , and which yet somehow was regarded as a single deity . |
| 25 | Newton spent more time and energy on alchemical speculations than on the scientific discoveries which galvanised the Western world : Storr reconstructs the neurotic drive which impelled him to heroic intellectual feats . |
| 26 | So , for instance , the Crowther Report of 1959 on the education of 15-18-year-olds talked about the likelihood that middle-class girls would combine a career with motherhood and marriage and the necessity for them to receive an education which prepared them for this future dual role . |
| 27 | And er half heatedly she decided she ought , she could n't have any more children you know she 'd , I do n't think it was money so much that she thought she 'd got enough and somebody told her about this Slippery Elm , well you could get a Slippery Elm drink , you know you know these milky foods if you 've got a poor tummy , that that can , er she bought a tin of this Slippery Elm drink , and she drunk gallons of it and it was doing her good and she thought er she thought it would n't , she 'd gone wrong you see . |
| 28 | During the course of the nineteenth century , archaeology moved in a quite different direction , becoming , like the earlier diffusionary theories , increasingly obsessed with objects as such , and treating them as having an independent behaviour in a manner which separated them from any social context and which amounted to a genuine fetishism or the artefact . |
| 29 | It had a depth and penetration which separated it from most other consultants ' reports of the time . |
| 30 | Linking the Midlands manufacturers to London by canal undoubtedly assisted the sending of goods to the capital , but conversely the canals which linked them to other major ports sometimes removed their need to send as many goods through London . |