Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of them regarded Baldwin as an acceptable and agreeable assistant , but not as a great deal more . |
| 2 | Unfortunately living in Ireland I do n't see much of the team but I was lucky enough to be in Southampton a few weeks ago to see them beat Southampton about the head a little . |
| 3 | I wanted the sugar and rather than wait for the waiter to return or ask this boy to get it , I asked Harvey for the sugar . |
| 4 | We paused to watch a hawk hunting above one of the islands which splits the Vltava , and I asked Ladislav about the posters I kept seeing in windows . |
| 5 | The following Saturday morning I asked Granpa for a couple of hours off . |
| 6 | I asked McIllvanney in a tone of genuine enquiry . |
| 7 | Later , over a mug of tea , I asked Mick about the message he had for me . |
| 8 | I asked Joe about the heart attack and the changes that it had brought to his life as he settled down for his six hours ' daily practice at the Manor Leisure Club in Yeadon , near Leeds-Bradford Airport . |
| 9 | I asked László about the corso : ‘ Yes , it did exist here before the war and now , gradually , it is coming back , along the embankment by the international hotels . ’ |
| 10 | I asked Michael about the recent success of Benjamin Britten 's opera , Peter Grimes , in Paris . |
| 11 | I mean it 's it 's happened and I was ha I was so interested in the subject that I asked Mr for a copy of the report where it goes back in the history and of course it is the history of trading standards and , and so on . |
| 12 | So when we came to make the recording in Vienna I asked Strauss through a mutual friend we had at that time if I could use a fuller body of strings in the climaxes . |
| 13 | I respected Brando as an actor . |
| 14 | I led Karen up a narrow companion-way marked ‘ Crew Only ’ to a constricted quarterdeck partially screened by the lifeboats hanging from their cradles . |
| 15 | I met Morag on the step . |
| 16 | He says : ‘ I met Kristy through an old boyfriend of hers . |
| 17 | You know an and I met Elvis at the chip shop and that stuff , I mean it 's |
| 18 | Although I met Theresa on the way back from erm school and she said Alec was at the doctors cos not the way back from school , way back from the library . |
| 19 | I 'd been officially blind for five years when I met Pete at the Guide Dog Centre in Wokingham , Berkshire , ’ Andrew Miles explained . |
| 20 | All that has happened is that I met Hugo at a party and came to understand that , as well as having friend and spouse , a woman needs the excitement of a lover from time to time : a re-basing , as it were , in the physical : the reincarnation of the carnal self in a body which gets , over the years , far too controlled by spirit and mind . |
| 21 | ‘ I met Harvey in a restaurant , ’ she mused . |
| 22 | I met Jamie in the lounge bar of the Cauldhame Arms for lunch and we sat playing an electronic game over a TV table . |
| 23 | I met Susan on the stairs . |
| 24 | I met Herman at the FitzGeralds ’ [ the writer Kevin FitzGerald and his wife Janet — the latter had been Herman 's producer on the occasions when he broadcast on Woman 's Hour ] , and he says that there is less of Ivy every time he sees her . |
| 25 | Happy couple : ‘ I met Robert in a bar : It was love at first sight ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I met Paula at a party in San Francisco where she lives . |
| 27 | ‘ I met Kay in a nightclub but did my courting in Woolworth 's where she worked , ’ he says . |
| 28 | Our son Mark , 24 , is a researcher at Pebble Mill in Birmingham , and I met Neil through the Beeb . |
| 29 | When I met Francis on the first occasion in that throne room , life had not turned sour for him . |
| 30 | ‘ I met Veronica at the Anglo-Catholic church in putney — St Mark 's . |