Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Clyst St George did n't look very inviting , when we passed through it this afternoon . ’ |
| 2 | Many thanks to the Essex teachers for the fine tea they provided for us this meeting . |
| 3 | It must have been the word " social " that created for her this image , a word judiciously expunged from later versions of the verse . |
| 4 | ‘ He proposed to me that afternoon , ’ put in Angelina apologetically . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you seriously telling me that you thought I proposed to you this morning ? |
| 6 | He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done . |
| 7 | I 'd just make the simple point that a sudden twelve point five percent reduction , I referred to it this morning , er in in building , is not progressively and long term , it 's a sudden change . |
| 8 | It just occurred to me that Tuesday would be another opportunity to talk to Julian , the guy who comes in and does the S U legal aid stuff . |
| 9 | Something that occurred to me this week . |
| 10 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 11 | Mr Fractor shouted at him each lesson and gave him two lengths of the corridor nearly every week . |
| 12 | Nigel was sufficiently worried about my feeble attempts towards the top of the ascent that he got below me each time I had to turn and pushed me forward into the slope . |
| 13 | ‘ The captain , Stuart Barnes , has done everything asked of him this year . |
| 14 | It seemed for her that space itself was now slowly constricting . |
| 15 | They came for him this afternoon , Geoffrey says . |
| 16 | I suffered with her that evening , right through every moment , and when I went to bed at around midnight I could still hear her crying into her pillow — not a sound that sends a mother peacefully to sleep . |
| 17 | Is the list going to have a new name from Northern Ireland added to it this season ? |
| 18 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 19 | Most of the good songs which I heard about came to me that way . |
| 20 | ‘ There is one I 'd strongly tip for the future who came to me that way , though . |
| 21 | Which just came to me that moment . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , I had an odd feeling about this fellow and it came to me many times during my short period as an Instructor . |
| 23 | ‘ Liverpool have exploited that but it first came to me many years ago in a charity match at Newcastle . |
| 24 | Er racking damage , Carrie 's who in bay one and two , came to me this morning and said the the racking that he checks it every morning when he comes at six or wh Six seven , whenever he starts . |
| 25 | Anyway when the time came to , to , to stop off for short time everybody had had their turn except the union president and myself and he came to me this foreman and he said er , now John I do n't want you to think what happened between me and you will make any difference about being sent back for . |
| 26 | Even if we discount the fact that Rothmans was the British hope in the last Whitbread Round the World Race , it seemed to me that Yachting World took the opportunity to mention tobacco companies wherever possible . |
| 27 | It sometimes seemed to me that animal rights must always prevail over every other claim , however strong , including claims from the environment . |
| 28 | It seemed to him that Strawberry might as well have said that his tail was an oak tree . |
| 29 | Now it seemed to us that freedom from disease was more likely related to the weak growth of the trees in the forest . |
| 30 | It seemed to us that April that we were seeing one of the results of total permissiveness in a rather comely young man and woman , ill-educated , but neither of them stupid , on trial at Chester Assizes for multiple murder . |