Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's because the passages are so small they get bunged up , I know Anna across the road 's got it done once but er Michelle said they 've come out , but er , they 're supposed to drain them so she said |
| 2 | Well th , we used to fool them though we had , we had celluloid collars we used to spit on and then rub your sleeve to and er you know your boots , you had black boots ? |
| 3 | It 's all to do with the C.O. He wanted to court-martial me , only I heard them trying to find me so I hid in the latrines and I do n't know what happened in the end . |
| 4 | She took it for granted that each knew who the other was , and standing aside to motion him in she said : ‘ It 's good of you to be so accommodating , Mr Dalgliesh . |
| 5 | Section 28 varies the decision in Leachinsky in that Lord Simon said that if the facts were obvious , if , for example the suspect has been caught red handed , it was not necessary to inform him why he had been arrested . |
| 6 | ‘ I was so keen to meet her again I did n't challenge this at all . |
| 7 | As he and the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West know , my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , in his personal capacity as Law Officer of the Crown and not as a Minister , came to the House to inform it how he intended to proceed . |
| 8 | When she found her mother was no longer giving her the attention she craved she worked harder to obtain it so she strewed more objects on the floor . |
| 9 | This may have been the same object as that lent by Gaston I to Clement V. The pope agreed to keep the talisman safely and to excommuni-cate anyone else who attempted to use it . |
| 10 | Like she said to that new girl take your time learn it , get to know it properly she said you learn what was it ? |
| 11 | As Timothy Hutton 's attention was openly on whatever his next problem was , McLeish decided to leave , and to extract anything else he needed from the documents . |
| 12 | No one seemed to want to serve me so I walked out and went home without so much as a plectrum ! |
| 13 | Just just a And you 'd to set them right We had to set them that they 've stayed like that . |
| 14 | They said well your husband 's car 's been vandalised and they think it 's you that 's done it so we 've come to arrest you so she said oh I thought you 've come to tell me it were me daughter that was dead and he said , he said what you talking about ? |
| 15 | In about 1784 he set up a press there , and founded an ambitious system of circulating libraries ; to anyone wishing to set one up he offered a stock of books , a catalogue , and instructions . |
| 16 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 17 | Barbara Coleman mentioned Sabine was going to visit her so I went , too . ’ |
| 18 | But when he stepped out of the Humber Snipe which had been sent to pick him up he found that the building was in darkness and apparently deserted . |
| 19 | When he had stopped the car to pick her up she had been terrified . |
| 20 | At first I thought it was a handkerchief , but when I stooped to pick it up I saw it was a cream-coloured glove ; and of all gloves , an elbow-length woman 's glove . |
| 21 | She said well I know , cos when Elaine went to pick it up she said , Elaine told her I would n't want to make the choice out of two typewriters , I just said Pam did n't really care what she had as long as she had one |
| 22 | To allow time to sort myself out we decided to sack this fish in the deep margin under some cover while I set up the camera equipment and finished a somewhat cold coffee . |
| 23 | ‘ The patron , mademoiselle , instructed me to drive you wherever you wished to go . |
| 24 | So if you kept C R fixed and you happened to fiddle them so it came to one , you could just You You 're working out your graph you see you see then . |
| 25 | As she raised a hand to wipe them away she noticed how deeply the dirt had eaten into her fingernails , so that they were not , and so long as she worked never would be , pink and sweet and shell-like . |
| 26 | Why she always sounded hoarse was because she had a masculine voice and to cover it up she pretended to have a cold . |
| 27 | they sent me a cheque for twenty five P and I was going to tear it up I thought well no I might as well put it in the in the bank twenty five P . |
| 28 | ‘ I wanted to hear what else he had to say , ’ complained Tom . |
| 29 | When a chance came up to do them early we took it , although it meant we only had nine working days to fit in with Magnox Shutdown . |
| 30 | He ignored the mop , just staring at me , and I saw him take a breath ready to defy me so I spoke before he could . |