Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura reckons , ’ she continued , a salacious gleam in her toffee-brown eyes , ‘ old Po-face-that 's what they all calls him cos he never smiles-had been having it off with that secretary for weeks . |
| 2 | Mrs Ross tells me that she later discovered that several years earlier near Paisley signal box two trains had collided with loss of life . |
| 3 | The Office tells us that he eventually settled in the area known as the county of Richmond . |
| 4 | Matisse tells us that he actually saw one of the l'Estaque pieces in Picasso 's studio and that Picasso ‘ discussed it with his friends ’ . |
| 5 | In the first half of the poem ( lines 1–32 ) Wordsworth tells us that he once visited the castle in a season of calm weather . |
| 6 | Walter claims to have journeyed as a student to Nepal ( 'did n't everyone ? ' ) for purification , but Vivien reminds him that he only got as far as Ostend . |
| 7 | I suppose it amuses me and I never needed to be amused before , not when he was here to do it . |