Example sentences of "[pers pn] [subord] [pron] [vb past] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well I 'll ask I 'll ask my mum but if I if I did n't I 'm gon na have to get perhaps |
| 2 | I mean we when I when I came here it was virtually , virtually half , half the population of that . |
| 3 | The first time he ever asked me if I knew where he could get ‘ coke ’ . |
| 4 | He just asked me if I knew where she was and then I watched him disappear out of the room . |
| 5 | He is very strict , and would dismiss me if he found out I 'd been interfering with his books . |
| 6 | I stopped two stout middle-aged women carrying laden shopping-bags and asked them if they knew where I could find rooms to rent . |
| 7 | Mind you when she went home she noticed her accent was getting worse and worse and she was picking up a sort of English reticence or so they enjoyed telling her . |
| 8 | Yeah , but , but did n't you when you got here they 'd given you , do n't you remember ? |
| 9 | You could n't say that to her cos she did n't it would be insulting but in fact , that 's the big difference . |
| 10 | She is quite bitter about what has happened , resentful at what she sees as the inconsistent attitudes towards pregnancy and teenage motherhood held by members of her family and other West Indian people and still upset at her father 's extreme change in attitude towards her when he found out she was not his daughter . |
| 11 | Yeah but she does it like she said though I mean if I was your mum , I said to her if I was , I would just give it to her . |
| 12 | Turning her back defiantly on him , she peered at the timetable , wondering despairingly if she 'd ever decipher it before she froze where she stood . |
| 13 | That 's including Chippingfield if you had seen it as we saw it when we came here you would recognise how much work has gone into building the town because I was on the the council then I was asked if I would stand for the council which was then only a parish council there was no urban district council that was n't formed for four or five years afterwards and of course , we had to fight for lights everything that , er that we needed we had to fight for because there was no lighting on Netteswell Road where our children were going to school , and there were little ones . |
| 14 | Then she decided to be awkward , like she always is , and said I says oh it 's still taping you know and I s she said summat , I ca n't remember what it were now but I was saying , I knew that 'd happen , one minute yes then no , then I 'll think about it , I says and if I did n't start it when you went out you 'd be saying you could 've done this and that and er so she were chittering , pretending she said I could n't do it . |
| 15 | But it as it turned out he need n't have had no fears . |
| 16 | he said and I got on very well with them , have a chat and I used to help them when they came in they were West Indians which gave everybody a bit of a shock when running a local Spa |
| 17 | They are exactly as the computer drew them when they evolved inside it . |