Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not very good at them Mum gave me that one it 's been in quite good condition but |
| 2 | ‘ Me mum said I should do a show concentrating on Paul 's work , ’ says Paul ( left ) . |
| 3 | I asked Emma Johnson about the celebrated clarinet virtuoso , Richard Mühlfeld , for whom Brahms wrote his clarinet quintet but who refused to accept the dedication of the Stanford concerto , and consequently never played the work . |
| 4 | One wonders where the Carthaginians were to whom Clitomachus distributed his consolation . |
| 5 | The use of ‘ Treharne Thomas ’ as a family name was preserved in the Pontardulais cousins with whom Edward spent his Oxford long vacations . |
| 6 | My plans seemed nothing but vainglory . ’ |
| 7 | " My sons told me you lost your wife in a swimming accident four years ago , Monsieur Devraux , " she had said at last , speaking quietly in French . |
| 8 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 9 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may be amused to hear that one of my sons spotted you the other day training with Korchnoi and the Brighton and Hove Albion football team . |
| 10 | ‘ My sons gave it to me . |
| 11 | My heart told me she would n't . |
| 12 | My heart gave me an unforgettable jolt when I thought him to be headless ; yet there was no blood staining the fresh , even snow . |
| 13 | Brushing my hair set my teeth on edge but I finally got most of it laying down , and at least you could n't see my new bumps from the front . |
| 14 | For the first time in my life , my hair behaved itself and curled round my face in a manner which I considered most flattering , and my make-up went on well on a skin which did n't have one spot or blemish . |
| 15 | One day in 1916 my driver took me to the town of Loos in Belgium . |
| 16 | Still , I 'm not swinging the lead , my GP sent me here . |
| 17 | ‘ My GP told me not to worry and to drink more fluids . |
| 18 | Although the first step can be steroid injections , my GP referred me for surgery at Wanstead Hospital , south London . |
| 19 | My GP visited me and I still have the drawing he did of the cancer they had found in my kidney . |
| 20 | ‘ The Prince of Wales discovered that I was to be at Broadstairs at this time ; my cooking pleased him , ’ he added simply , ‘ and voilà , he asked for me to cook this banquet too . |
| 21 | ‘ If I say one of my contacts tipped me off , I expect you 'll pester me for his name . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ All right , then : one of my contacts tipped me off . ’ |
| 23 | My resistance surprised him , and he shouted for help . |
| 24 | I crawled out from under the back of the tractor just in case anybody thought to peer into the barn , and was about to use the lawn-mower for cover when my foot caught something hard and suddenly I was face down on the ground again . |
| 25 | Can I risk having her curse me 10 years hence because my ideology ruined her education ? |
| 26 | Although I was about to confront him , my experience told me that he was — well , I 've no words for it : on a different plane of reality . |
| 27 | Whereas in the 6th edition the re-written §246 dismisses the above as ‘ all my experience permitted me to say at the time … and that his research of the previous five years had wholly solved the difficulties of repetition . |
| 28 | Such an appeal was not to be resisted , but first I had to tell Meehan that if I did look into his case , I must feel myself free to come to whatever conclusions my investigations led me , ‘ whether in your favour or not ’ . |
| 29 | I sha n't care when I want to hear my Pamela read her French and Latin lessons to seek my beloved in the nursery or find her engrossed in baby offices . |
| 30 | My enthusiasm transmitted itself to Malc and he left at the end of visiting time a happier man . |