Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He took my phone number and I met him again a couple of times . |
| 2 | I got it twice the size , though . |
| 3 | ‘ I expected him over an hour ago . ’ |
| 4 | In truth , I found her rather a pain on the subject and merely parried her constant questions about my job-hunting activities . |
| 5 | As Signals explained , television ruined all this homespun entertainment but personally I found it quite a relief when we got a set and could all sit around watching King George 's funeral . |
| 6 | ‘ I found it quite a transition to go from being a single bloke to being married . |
| 7 | When she became too ill and breathless to come to the surgery , I visited her once a week . |
| 8 | ‘ More to follow ’ : I phoned them right a way ( and they agreed to come ) You must write it a gain ( and this time , get it right ) |
| 9 | The other factor against a return was that I reckoned it only a matter of time before they stopped being DINKS ( double income , no kids ) and became WHANnies ( ‘ We have a Nanny ’ ) . |
| 10 | After that I saw her maybe a couple of times . |
| 11 | I saw it about a year and a half ago . |
| 12 | ‘ You were in good health when I saw you only a week ago today . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I thought you once a Goddess trim , |
| 14 | I gave us both a refill . |
| 15 | I gave you yesterday the analogy of the home , and now we can imagine Mary bustling about the home with water for washing , for cooking and for cleaning . |
| 16 | I bought them both a denim shirt . |
| 17 | Oh , I said to him look I said she obviously a person that takes no notice , but she lives out in the country . |
| 18 | When I parted them just a moment ago , the light outside was still very pale and something of a mist was affecting my view of the baker 's shop and chemist 's opposite . |
| 19 | Venality was rife ; the precedent of even groups as illustrious as the Beatles and the Stones signing to contracts which gave them only a penny a record had become legendary : at the end of the Sixties , Allen Klein had achieved notoriety for his dexterous accounting abilities , working for both groups in the role of both ‘ finder ’ extracting hidden royalties from the record company for the group — and ‘ taker ’ — extracting them from the group for himself . |
| 20 | For some of their land to be handed over to the Roman soldiers was a bitter pill to swallow , for it meant the loss of the Colne peninsula and much else , which left them only the Essex marches and lands to the north and the area round modern Chelmsford , which probably became their tribal centre . |
| 21 | But even when she whispered them aloud the words had a hollow ring . |
| 22 | You made me completely a woman |
| 23 | It was a room no-one ever came into , except the dead woman 's husband , who visited it religiously every Sunday morning before Mass , locking himself in for an hour , while , Ellie guessed , he dusted and tidied the shrine he had created , and prayed for the soul of the one departed . |
| 24 | ‘ I feel like I 'm in prison and I do n't understand the crime , ’ she told him once the preliminaries were over . |
| 25 | ‘ As much as I can , ’ she laughed as she poured them both a cup of coffee . |
| 26 | You taught me quite a lesson yesterday ! ’ |
| 27 | She disgusted him more every day . |
| 28 | You gave me quite a shock . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ My goodness , yes , you gave me quite a fright . ’ |
| 30 | Well you did it actually a bit more than that — you 've referred to it about two or three times , but that 's immaterial . |