Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , one of them attacked it with a large branch , striking it a damaging blow . |
| 2 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 3 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 4 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 5 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 6 | And then in the , where the bath used to be , in this little bathroom I had the cooker and the washer that 's it , I made it into a little kitchen so |
| 7 | I concerned myself with the wrong person , she thought . |
| 8 | I led her to a small shelter in the Palace side of the Park . |
| 9 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 10 | I met her in a big line-up of people and it was very difficult for her . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’ |
| 12 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |
| 13 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 14 | A few weeks later I met him in a wild part of Laggan . |
| 15 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 16 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 17 | I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh . |
| 18 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 19 | I sold it for a reasonable price . |
| 20 | If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road . |
| 21 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 22 | I got one with a big chunky battery , it should 've lasted about six month to a year |
| 23 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |
| 24 | Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I ! |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 26 | and I interrupted you about the casual ward , so you did n't really finish that ? |
| 27 | Eliot had arranged with me beforehand that we should have a private meeting , and meanwhile I sank myself into the communal life of the place . |
| 28 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |
| 29 | With jackdaws and Mambas both out of the frame , I found myself considering the bizarre idea that the storm had something to do with the disappearance of my dead sister 's remains . |
| 30 | Anyway , I did some radio interviews and I was quite taken aback when I found myself over the front page of the Evening Standard . |