Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pers pn] [vb base] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And he said to me , he said if you hang on erm , he said you can borrow it and sand it all down , you know ? |
| 32 | and said and they come back |
| 33 | ‘ Satisfy my curiosity , ’ he said as they set off early next morning . |
| 34 | ‘ There 'll be scent enough today , ’ she said as they set off again for the meet . |
| 35 | Several informants in my study articulated the view that their parents preferred them to speak British English : Mom — mom likes me to speak mostly English , she said when I go out into , you know , upper class society , and I start speakin " Patois dey might not understand , and take me as an idiot . |
| 36 | There he was , at the end of a solid day of meetings with French officials , looking exactly the way he had when they set out . |
| 37 | ‘ Where to today ? ’ he asked as they set off , weaving between the trams drawn up at the Statue terminus and careful to avoid getting their tyres caught in the tramlines . |
| 38 | James Shelley Hamilton described Cagney 's role in The Public Enemy as being that of a vicious , cruel , hard-boiled rat and yet he concluded that we end up sympathizing with him and feeling ‘ that there was something likeable and courageous about the little rat after all ’ . |
| 39 | So when he turned to her casually in the car , and suggested that they call in at his house for some tea before they parted , Folly found herself leaping on the suggestion with almost indecent haste . |
| 40 | Our archaeological advisers suggested that we set up control points on the wreck-site and also on the beach opposite the site to monitor seabed and beach movements at regular intervals . |
| 41 | I twice suggested that we turn back , but Dennis would n't hear of it . |
| 42 | Us kids were highly amused at all this , but I was distracted from the fun by Frankie who suggested that we gather up the bottles and hide them in the washhouse before they all got broken . |
| 43 | My friend was most unimpressed , he had seen the footprints but shrugged his shoulders and suggested that we move on . |
| 44 | I asked Alan to fish the first drift , in order to settle down , and towards the end he suggested that I put up the dap . |
| 45 | When a friend suggested that I take up racing , my initial reaction was that at 42 I was too old . |
| 46 | Anyway Mr Kobold suggested that I press on to Manchester tonight . ’ |
| 47 | Roebuck was very interested in Watt 's invention and suggested that he take out a patent for it . |