Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sight that met them brought everything back with a rush . |
| 2 | Well we 're just watching Coronation Street she asked me to turn it off . |
| 3 | If you want to know what that actually means see Dr but he asked me to read it out . |
| 4 | Speaking of young men , erm I have a letter here from Mr John who is our local M P , who is not able to be with us today , but erm he in fact would not of , I think , been born at that stage , but erm he did write to me a little letter I 've got this morning from the House of Commons in London and he asked me to read it out . |
| 5 | All eight doctors signed a letter on 13 December to the Secretary of State for Health and asked me to pass it on . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd always been good with a sewing machine , ’ she says , ‘ so a kindly neighbour asked me to run her up a few silk separates for the summer holidays . |
| 7 | He made me put it down and began a long , fast conversation with the soldier . |
| 8 | Soon it was just clumps and permanently itchy so I asked them to shave it off . |
| 9 | So , then th er asked them to ring me back . |
| 10 | And we asked them to tie it up , the lads made a bloody job I think they tied it up for coming round . |
| 11 | Got you got erm a pair of two lovers er , a woman 's house got burnt down and the man next door went down there and helped them build it up . |
| 12 | Aunt Emily may have been spoiled but she was irresistibly spoilable because she was so generous , so imaginative , she did not try to destroy people 's pictures of themselves as you do , but helped them to build them up ! |
| 13 | Me and your mam did one this morning , I had about twenty minutes left on it and she helped me finish it off |
| 14 | He helped me fuck them up . |
| 15 | Annie helped me put it on . |
| 16 | It 's what it cost me to help you out . |
| 17 | Yeah because you , you mentioned you wanted one out there did n't you , cos |
| 18 | She invited him to cover it up with a paper bag but he snapped the band round the back of his head and ran off into the street , an elephant ramping above the collar of his jersey , his new trunk bobbing . |
| 19 | She tugged at his sweater and he helped her take it off . |
| 20 | Then Chola helped her carry it through to the inner room where the family sleeps for warmth in winter . |
| 21 | They found the brassiere under the bed and Jo let him hook it up at the back for her . |
| 22 | No , Caroline thought , as she let him lead her down to the ancient ground , no , it had n't . |
| 23 | She let him help her back up the slope , round the other side of the danger area , and demonstrate by the skeletal walls where the various rooms of the baths lay , and their impressive extent . |
| 24 | She let him help her off with the mackintosh , hang it in the cupboard in the hall . |
| 25 | She let him help her down from the carriage and lead her inside a shop where there was a strong , pastoral smell of grain , and Sarah wrinkled up her nose to sniff it . |
| 26 | She let him pick her up . |
| 27 | Myles helped him to take it off and hung it up . |
| 28 | And when he had undone her gown , and had difficulty in lifting it over her head , she raised herself from the pillow and helped him to take it off . |
| 29 | When I stopped he pushed himself back in his comfortable armchair and put the end between his teeth . |
| 30 | David advised me to sound you out on it . |