Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sight that met them brought everything back with a rush . |
| 2 | And I do n't where I got I gave him quite a good sermon which I thought was y know quite erm to try and help the situation and he said I 'd give them er my conditions . |
| 3 | Suddenly she put her arms out and pulled the young girl to her ; and when Jessie 's sobs rose she warned her quickly , ‘ Be quiet ! |
| 4 | Yeah because you , you mentioned you wanted one out there did n't you , cos |
| 5 | The vicious front snap-kick caught him caught him just above his right hip , instead of square in the groin , but its force knocked him spinning to the ground . |
| 6 | I mean people ha found they had something else in common . |
| 7 | Downstairs , in the little stationery shop at the back which her father had started in a small way as a trial , and which had become so successful that sometimes he joked it financed everything else , was a safe full of cash . |
| 8 | Erm the point which I do n't think I a quite adequately covered , erm Alan mentioned it did you not , in relation to where you give a signal , erm th the h new Highway Code makes a slight variation in relation to where you should give the signal when you 're exiting on the roundabout . |
| 9 | When I stopped he pushed himself back in his comfortable armchair and put the end between his teeth . |
| 10 | When he surfaced he saw it about ten metres away . |
| 11 | Has what I just told you turned you off or something ? ’ |
| 12 | Suddenly the passion that drove him reached her also . |
| 13 | Cris tried to help , of course , but as soon as the ambulances came they sent him off to the local hospital , and that 's where he is now . |
| 14 | We assumed he picked it up subconsciously . |
| 15 | When we reached the street corner where our ways separated I asked him not to tell anyone . |
| 16 | Despite the darkness and the distance , she claimed she saw him quite distinctly and , taking Edwards to her own window , she gave him a convincing demonstration of the excellence of her eyesight . |
| 17 | I forgot you knew her actually just then . |
| 18 | When we arrived she greeted us kindly , her first honeymoon couple , showed us round the cottage , then excused herself , saying that she had 600 lettuces to plant out before tea . |
| 19 | So those but Fantasia passes are very similar , I just turned mine turned mine round she saw it and went she showed me a blank yellow so I did n't thought it perhaps a different pass but it was n't just turned it round on her . |
| 20 | When scripts arrived he sent them back unread . |
| 21 | When the fellow returned I entertained him here in the manor house . |
| 22 | ‘ Trouble is , my bookie figured I had it too . |
| 23 | As we walked she told me how she had always resisted her brother 's attempts to persuade her to emigrate to Pakistan . |
| 24 | Either he had n't started or whoever killed him took it away . |
| 25 | Now let's say let's say your mum came in and she said how many for this pizza and we said oh just the three of us and she cut it cut it up into three pieces three pieces all the same size . |
| 26 | When he returned he surveyed me again . |
| 27 | When Andrew returned he found himself almost asking the question , ‘ so how long have you been disabled ? ’ . |
| 28 | Gorbachev 's address received lukewarm applause , and in the speeches which followed he found himself sharply under attack by delegates . |
| 29 | and I decided I made it through erm , enough weekends , I really needed to go away and have a , get away from this part of the world . |
| 30 | The only book in the whole of this enlightened household was something called Easy Cooking belonging to her mother , and when she had read this from cover to cover and had learnt all the recipes by heart , she decided she wanted something more interesting . |