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Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	That was a bloody laugh last week , though everyone got in such mess !
2	Few of them recovered from this experience .
3	Everyone involved at this period put in time and effort far beyond what might have been predicted .
4	He has two or three bidets in his house in Beverly Hills , but he has never seen them used in this way , with gusto .
5	Nothing gilded about this youth today .
6	I said , Why do n't you just say , ‘ I asked about those records you ordered ? ’
7	Sometimes I asked about these stories .
8	yes that was at quarter past eight Saturday morning and at ten to eight my aunty came at night and went fucking mad she said I want a dressing and I want it now , twelve hours ago I asked for that dressing and were n't done then came
9	I asked for more money because of Zadak : I wanted to give him money for rain .
10	I asked for more work — anything to keep my mind occupied .
11	And when I say I asked for more polenta , you will know that we were dealing with an intake situation of Road to Damascus proportions .
12	I asked for some children to work with me .
13	Erm now councillor and I asked for this matter to be brought to this chamber because erm we felt that the matter w was important enough that all members of this council should have an opportunity to debate it .
14	I asked on that occasion for considerably more information .
15	I asked in some surprise .
16	And I applied for that job , and I got it .
17	I lost it in 1963 on the A30 west of Salisbury when I skidded on some diesel oil and rolled over and over .
18	I gazed at this scene thinking that of all of the things I wanted when I was grown up , the one I wanted most was to play a harmonium .
19	Our trucks had open sides and Marius , Vermulen and I clung to each other , faces buried in our hoods , as we churned down the slushy autoroutes , the speed of the trucks sending icy , sawing winds through us at seventy kilometres per hour .
20	In the very next group I chanced upon that guy , you know the one , he used to read the weather on TVS a few years back , grey hair , quite tall , you know , John something .
21	This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain .
22	‘ I realised in this day and age that people are looking for something that wee bit different , and we found with the long spell of bad weather we 've had over the summer months that people want to stay inside , ’ explained Mr Nelson .
23	It would n't be an exaggeration to say I lived for that owl during that very intense period of training .
24	I lived for many years in the north of England .
25	Good Friday is about punks at Hastings , where I lived for many years , seen feeding a hot-cross bun to pigeons .
26	In order to observe this and to try to understand something of what life in the movement was like at first hand — and , of course , to try to observe the operation of sociological variables such as social control — I lived for several periods of a week or so , over a span of six years , in Unification centres and participated in various of their functions .
27	On the , on the , on the corner of the street under the lamppost , we 'd , a family named used to live on the corner of Street and Street I lived in that house , but they used to just congregate on the , on the street corners .
28	I fought for them two , to get that home for her , so I said no , the only way you 'll do it , and I , when she were on her own , I said , not that I do n't trust Nigel , I do , but you do n't know what 's gon na happen in ten , in ten years time , I said I fought for that house for you , if you exchange it , you exchange it in your name
29	I met with little success . ’
30	Many Frenchmen whom I met on several occasions at the Training Centre at Achnacarry and on the South Coast of England had also gone , either killed or wounded .