Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some loved him , others hated him , but everyone respected what little they ever found out about this strange ‘ refusenik ’ who was part of no group or establishment , yet managed to affect so many people 's lives . |
| 2 | Sarah 's place at University is now assured along with other classmates , some of whom found it all a bit too much . |
| 3 | Sarah 's place at University is now assured along with other classmates , some of whom found it all a bit too much . |
| 4 | I asked myself each time , Why ca n't I make the pot boil ? |
| 5 | I asked myself that question on many occasions and wondered how I was supposed to refresh his and other people 's memories without risking the accusation of going on about it all the time . |
| 6 | So for example when I 've given a pint of blood instead of giving it into a plastic bag with sodium citrate to stop it clotting I 've actually given into a plain glass bottle and when I asked what this for the erm transfusion nurse said that they 're going to let the red cells all clot together at the bottom and use the serum that was left for blood grouping purposes which of course is very important . |
| 7 | ‘ I asked him that last night , ’ admitted Jennifer . |
| 8 | side , I , I asked him that and he said he did n't , well I , I think he was lying |
| 9 | I asked her that night , when the children were in bed . |
| 10 | I asked my own surgeon how many of these prostate operations he did in a year , and he said around four hundred . |
| 11 | I asked my own doctor when he came early this morning , but he would n't tell me . ’ |
| 12 | I asked you that night because I could n't go on not knowing one way or the other . |
| 13 | Remember I asked you this morning to just just after lunch to jot down what it was that you need to improve on just as you 're setting the clock just say something like by the end of this talk I 'd like you to congratulate me on having moved around a bit more having not put me hands in me pockets , whatever it might be . |
| 14 | Matilda said , ‘ I am very sorry I asked you those questions , Miss Honey . |
| 15 | I chucked them all off last week . |
| 16 | She wiped her eyes with her dainty lace handkerchief and I wiped my own on the back of my hand . |
| 17 | I read them both again erm last year for the first time for many years , and I found Herodotus much the better of the two , because Herodotus was prepared to be curious about everything . |
| 18 | I made myself some medicine , some er honey , glycerine and apple cider vinegar . |
| 19 | I made myself another coffee , extended myself on the sofa — my legs quivery with fatigue — opened the folder , pulled out the sheets of paper and started to read . |
| 20 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 21 | Jill : Well , I made them all with four things on one of those round things . |
| 22 | I made him some tea and supper while he bathed and changed and unpacked his things in my bedroom . |
| 23 | I made her some coffee and she sat and watched while Doone picked a piece of paper out of his breast pocket and handed it to Sam . |
| 24 | I made one many years ago and found it worked very well . |
| 25 | I made you some notes , as well . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I made it all up ! ’ he said against her neck . |
| 27 | it was the cream of the milk , well you used to like it , well sort of , some people make it with water , that 's why I made it all milk , are you going to try it again with water ? and just a drop of milk on top |
| 28 | Ah so I made it this , as s s skinny as I could . |
| 29 | It 's not really enough the way it is , it would n't fit on the bag if I made it any more ! . |
| 30 | I made my own mind up . |