Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As for the next ten years of Brookside , Eithne and the elusive Chrissie Rogers offer their best regards to the series that made them both household names . |
| 3 | Carrie stood knee deep in the dry , sweet-smelling hay and helped Albert take Frederick 's huge forkfuls that were so heavy , sometimes , it made them both stagger . |
| 4 | Let down , their elation leaking away , they had decided to give up , and taken a taxi back to Alice 's mother 's house , where Alice made them both coffee and scrambled eggs . |
| 5 | Donna took a hurried bath , Julie made them some tea and , as the hands on the clock above the open fireplace crawled round to 3.56 , they both sat down , one on either side of the table in the centre of the room . |
| 6 | It probably made them half cousins . |
| 7 | He stabbed them many times after they were dead . |
| 8 | The belt tying the skirt on drew the bodice edges in round the breasts ( if they were to be exposed ) and presumably lent them some support from the sides and from below . |
| 9 | The dank smell of the water was not unpleasant , and for years the scent of la Sologne that enveloped me that night would pierce my memory : a combination of stagnant water , slime , wild mushrooms , wispy dry grasses , sand and well-hung game . |
| 10 | I am so glad that the hon. Member for Derby , North asked me that question — |
| 11 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 12 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 13 | My old , dear and intimate friend Princess Marie Louise , who furnishing the Queen 's Dolls ' House , asked me some months ago to let twelve poems of mine be copied small to form one volume in the library ; and I selected the twelve shortest and simplest and least likely to fatigue the attention of dolls or the illustrious House of Hanover . ’ |
| 14 | He nearly got me this afternoon . |
| 15 | So Parsons got me this job and I used to sit up there and answer the phones . ’ |
| 16 | Yeah , he got me some springs |
| 17 | My American agent once got me some stuff placed in Reader 's Digest . ’ |
| 18 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 19 | Mr Blackadder tolled me this buk is ful of jokes that are abowt as funny as getting your bottom caut in a bacon slicer . |
| 20 | After my first sight of him that sunny autumn morning in the gallery of the courtyard in the Palacio de Anaya , his face haunted me all day , and I dreamt of him during the night — a long , ecstatic dream of such acute sensual pleasure I woke up aching and exhausted by too much bliss . |
| 21 | No I could n't I mean , and these people are Jehovah Witnesses who sold me this house and my feelings about the commercial probity of Jehovah Witnesses are that they have n't any commercial probity . |
| 22 | He asked them this question , do you believe that I am able to do this ? |
| 23 | Got involved and cooled it down a bit and er and found some of the people some premises , and I think got them some money from Duke of Edinburgh award scheme or something , to buy music music equipment . |
| 24 | ‘ You promised me some cigarettes , Mrs Dawson . ’ |
| 25 | He promised me this time he really would stop cranking . |
| 26 | ‘ My Lady , ’ I said , ‘ you promised me another purse ! ’ |
| 27 | He invited me several times to supper at his parents ' house . |
| 28 | I seen them this morning so tell Mr |
| 29 | and it was really a happy life , I enjoyed that and then when they , we found them all jobs . |
| 30 | She said : ‘ Mia found them several months ago . |