Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some years later , Hellen and I met her again in Hong Kong , where the impresario , Harry Odell , had brought her for a concert . |
| 2 | I met him quite by chance when I was rambling on the shore . |
| 3 | By the time I got him home to Walthamstow it was nearly five and the rush hour was warming up , so it was nearer six when I got to Stuart Street . |
| 4 | It was her left arm , however , so she was able to write out the application to my dictation , and I got someone else to type it . |
| 5 | I 'd never heard of it before , yet it 's so easy to catch — I got it purely from food . |
| 6 | I found myself entirely in agreement with this principle . |
| 7 | I found her just in time . |
| 8 | I found nothing else of interest but Bernice turned up a couple of old school exercise books of Billy 's and decided to keep them in remembrance . |
| 9 | I invited her here on business . |
| 10 | ‘ I reported it twice to Kilburn police station in London and the Salvation Army but I never saw her again . |
| 11 | I told them briefly about Fibonacci and I wrote the sequence up to 8 on the blackboard . |
| 12 | I recognised them vaguely as extras from the films of Michael Winner . |
| 13 | I suffered it again at Barnsley Park , when our main building period was post-AD 375 , after which there were substantial changes compressed into three periods . |
| 14 | I discovered them almost by accident through the researches of J.B. Oldham , who had traced over 160 examples of bindings from this workshop , which used various ‘ rolls ’ ( tools having a continuous or repeated design round the edge of a wheel ) , including Tudor emblems , the falcon and the golden fleece , as well as the signed one — ‘ R.B. ’ with heads in medallions . |
| 15 | I had no idea until I heard it quite by chance … |
| 16 | I tied them together with rope . |
| 17 | I suspect I suspect the local office probably wo n't because it was they when I rang them here in Newark and I said , Look I 'm about to go self-employed , |
| 18 | Well I rang you just in case you know I do n't want yo how we need the money so I thought to myself Cornwall , twenty eight ? |
| 19 | I saw him often at Acre and other sieges besides . |
| 20 | But if , as in the present case , all he can say is : ‘ I saw him once in Peckham High Street and someone told me his name was Joseph Fergus ’ then there is obviously a weak link in the case : how is it to be shown that the accused is the same man that was pointed out to the witness as Fergus ' ? |
| 21 | I like watching birds in the night and I saw something once in Miami , on the beach , moving , really geometric . ’ |
| 22 | I saw it once at sunset . |
| 23 | You have n't been in touch with me for an age , and I have wanted you since I saw you again at dinner . |
| 24 | I saw you earlier with Mr Fairley and thought you were terrific . ’ |
| 25 | I kept everything inside for months . |
| 26 | I kept him away from Uncle Mosse , but some people seem to fly together , do n't they , and you ca n't keep them apart . ’ |
| 27 | I took him home in triumph and left him overnight in the porch , intending to record his vital statistics before turning him into fish pie . |
| 28 | I sent him away after supper and I 've been finishing Emma . |
| 29 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 30 | Yeah we had him about we had him a year look cos I bought him just before Christmas |