Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was then she finally asked me a question that has bothered her for twenty years . |
| 2 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 3 | You got me a ticket but I did n't go did I . |
| 4 | Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use . |
| 5 | ‘ They made me a general 'cause I 'm old . |
| 6 | I mean in in the midweek game against us he had very little play and then he produced one ball that got them an equalizer and I suppose that 's what Frank would look for now . |
| 7 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
| 8 | He passed me a note that was propped behind a bottle of Long John . |
| 9 | Ordering fresh coffee from the waitress who came to take my order , he passed me the Guardian and picked up the Sun . |
| 10 | When I first went in for forensic medicine he used me a lot and I got a great deal of experience I would n't otherwise have had because he was never too proud to ask for a specialist opinion . |
| 11 | In 1238 Alexander III 's father promised me the crown but then he married again and begat Alexander , the third of that name , and the up was dashed from my lips . |
| 12 | When thou gavest them the rod and |
| 13 | In the meantime , however , those long horns had become undesirable : drovers and slaughterers found them a nuisance and they compounded the drawbacks that had already become apparent in Bakewell 's breed . |
| 14 | Mrs Lennox found them a pail and a large enamel container . |
| 15 | Yes , and he did say when he phoned me a night or two ago that you might |
| 16 | Based on the idea of a cliche , an often repeated phrase is n't it oh it cost me an arm and a leg , erm which is n't meant to be taken literally . |
| 17 | When you say it cost me an arm and a leg , you 're thinking in word pictures if you like it 's a metaphor and er in the in the picture it 's by the er Long John by the Long John Silver figure having not only one leg , but also one arm as well . |
| 18 | it cost them a bomb that did |
| 19 | And the employees pronounced them a success and a valuable source of information about the take home trade . |
| 20 | Yet at the age of forty he still regarded himself a failure because his mother had projected on to him her anxieties to such an extent that he never felt he matched up to her expectation of him . |
| 21 | I if I say it cost you an arm and a leg ? |
| 22 | They charged you a fortune and left you with nothing but a hopelessly constricting grid . |
| 23 | Do you remember I phoned you a week or two ago about some books I wanted ? |
| 24 | It was to her own surprise that Muriel Box , the director of 14 modest budget feature films between 1951 and 1964 , found herself an inspiration and a role model for a new generation of women film-makers , critics and students . |
| 25 | When he first started to air his views on intensive farming methods they labelled him a crank and hoped he would go away . |
| 26 | He praised his wife Wyn who visited him every day and held his hand as he was treated in three different hospitals . |
| 27 | This time Endill drew him a map and pointed out the quickest route back to the main corridor . |
| 28 | But Wilson had been immeasurably kind to him , found a place for a very square peg in his government and , in 1967 , when he no longer had room in his government for Wigg , created him a peer and was at pains to find him a suitable job as chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board . |
| 29 | Dudley , after years of trying to get redress by law , went off to the Continent in a huff ( and a fancy woman ) where the Emperor created him a duke and overlooked the fancy woman . |
| 30 | There were those who found him an oddity and some who were repelled by his right-wing and reactionary views . |