Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] and [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was gon na tell you about there was one day I was at for money and I 'm coming up the road , and here this chap was standing in the road and er kind of thumbing a lift , so I says to him , I stopped and I often lift people in the road but er after he got into the , I had an old Bradford van at the time , and he said er , I said to him , I says , are you on a hiking holiday ? |
| 2 | I fell a d do you remember we went before and I fell and I just sat there and I could n't , they , this erm woman and this man come to help me up and I could n't stop laughing , they could n't get me up . |
| 3 | ‘ I said I did and he simply replied that they should get a short , sharp answer , ’ she said . |
| 4 | I said And I always say that it 's the Orcad |
| 5 | Her reflections were interrupted by Dora , whom she had vaguely noticed rummaging in the boot of their car when she arrived and who now came striding towards them . |
| 6 | She wiggled and I almost lost my train of thought . |
| 7 | and I think , I think the difficulty with that is until you know it , as one person said to Alex in front of me ah well , we , we did exactly what you required and you never brought any audience , there was no audience , do you remember that ? |
| 8 | I asked her how she knew and she just said that she always thought that it was obvious . |
| 9 | I had the feeling that Signe had n't dismissed Harvey 's words of caution about me as completely as she professed and I carefully refrained from asking about the parcel . |
| 10 | A lot of them of course went to the quarries , but then they had a little steamer called the Florence Cook and she plied wherever she went and you probably know where she went . |
| 11 | We got on well from the moment we met and we still see each other from time to time , and talk for hours about the good old days . |
| 12 | … In a court it would be so easy if I was on the other side to get up and say that in respect of eight of the conditions ‘ We complied and we only contravened the suspended solids condition and we 're very sorry it was 30,000 p.p.m. but you 're not gon na cane us for that are you , Mr Magistrate ? |
| 13 | But er at any rate , we managed and he never asked after that . |
| 14 | Well I say , if we did and you just took it in and I went in the next day and picked it up . |
| 15 | And er we left and we never went back there , that 's when I went to the private school . |
| 16 | The nouveaux romanciers themselves have been reluctant to embrace the term , which has tended to occur on those occasions when parallels are bring drawn with novelists in other countries , as at the New York nouveau roman conference in 1982 which many of them attended and which also saw the participation of several leading American postmodernists . |
| 17 | They dated , they rowed and they finally got married . |
| 18 | He came and he just slashed the railways you see . |
| 19 | so it shows that er , you know , the globe is warming up , even in Russia where I went , my mother , where I , where I was staying at er Dunyask , there was five metre snow sometimes in the , it , it came and it just blocked your windows , it blocked your doors and you were inside the house and you could n't get out |
| 20 | He did n't change his clothes too often , and when he did he just picked up whatever was around him — Eva 's jumpers , Dad 's waistcoats , and always my shirts , which he borrowed and I never saw again . |
| 21 | and then it finished and he always turns video off but he never turns telly off , so I turned the telly off |
| 22 | Besides , she was his secret , something that he knew and nobody else did . |
| 23 | There was no way I was ever going to ride as well as he did and he surely knew it . |
| 24 | you see , he , he he can he cancelled cos his name came up and then he cancelled and he never heard anything and went a bit er we told him about Doreen , he said , oh I better go down and see what 's happened er he went down and then about three minutes later he got this erm card yes er , this week to say that come in , but , before you come in ring to see if there 's a bed . |
| 25 | It had and he duly got down in two more for another of his safe pars . |
| 26 | He said and I just do n't take no notice of him . |
| 27 | Cos we did have a young man I say young man , he was in his early twenties , he used to do all that , and he left and they never replaced him ! |
| 28 | Gladly , willingly , he accepted and he again became a familiar figure at our ground as he had been all those years before . |