Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It probably made them half cousins . |
| 2 | He stabbed them many times after they were dead . |
| 3 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 4 | My old , dear and intimate friend Princess Marie Louise , who furnishing the Queen 's Dolls ' House , asked me some months ago to let twelve poems of mine be copied small to form one volume in the library ; and I selected the twelve shortest and simplest and least likely to fatigue the attention of dolls or the illustrious House of Hanover . ’ |
| 5 | Yeah , he got me some springs |
| 6 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 7 | ‘ You promised me some cigarettes , Mrs Dawson . ’ |
| 8 | He invited me several times to supper at his parents ' house . |
| 9 | and it was really a happy life , I enjoyed that and then when they , we found them all jobs . |
| 10 | She said : ‘ Mia found them several months ago . |
| 11 | Oh , I can pay cash , changed me some dollars right in the airport … ’ |
| 12 | It cost me many night-hours the more because I was reading of one thing and thinking of another . ’ |
| 13 | I have read my Foucault , I am aware of the conceptual shortcomings of a timeless , essentialist homosexual identity , I might even want to take the step of putting quotations marks around the word ‘ gay ’ — but the man who queerbashed me some years ago did not put quotation marks around his fists . |
| 14 | Through a literary agent I had in New York I was able to help Sir Charles arrange the publication of that last book in America and I visited him many times , to hear him talk . |
| 15 | His mother phoned him several times and Jack had a disturbed night 's sleep . |
| 16 | Since this shot occurs in two different scenes , maybe he tried it both ways , but it looks the same in each , tough repeated inspection fails to disclose conclusively which of the two possibilities it actually is . |
| 17 | The government would save so much money in the long run if they built us all homes instead of putting us up in this dump ; it 's ridiculous . ’ |
| 18 | I remember an American pilot with about 200 hours , a twin-engine Commercial and full Instrument Rating who visited us some years ago . |
| 19 | He probably told them all lies like that . |
| 20 | ‘ I told them several times I had met him only briefly . |
| 21 | It gave the clients confidence in my abilities , and also told them any hopes they may have had of getting away with a fifty dollar fee should be left with the receptionist . |
| 22 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 23 | He told me many things that were deeply fascinating . |
| 24 | and he told me many funerals used to pass |
| 25 | Charlotte told me those things , much later . |
| 26 | He never told me those things . |
| 27 | Last time we spoke you told me some lies . ’ |
| 28 | He said : ‘ Jaguar people told me some valves were already bent through test-driving . ’ |
| 29 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 30 | He never told me any details . ’ |