Example sentences of "[prep] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had clearly learned a thing or two from his family 's entrepreneurship , and was not willing to be confined to any form of anonymity such as overtook some would-be poets . |
| 2 | And the job he was telling her about seemed interesting and desirable . |
| 3 | This one erm he sort of tried hard and put a lot in , thinks he should get full marks but he 's not going to get very much because he 's missed this , he 's not answering that properly |
| 4 | They always sort of came first , they were the sort of centre of the family and everything rotated round them . |
| 5 | But when all this business about you and Ryan cropped up , it sort of renewed all my earlier suspicions . ’ |
| 6 | So we sort of bypassed each other . |
| 7 | So we sort of switched all around now , so she eats with us at half past six stroke seven , goes up for a bath at seven thirty , eight o'clock and she 's in bed by nine , then she , she 's usually asleep by half past ten , but eh , it seems to have cured the problem we had with her , wanting , wanting me all the time , after she 's gone to bed . |
| 8 | It did n't hurt , honestly , but it looked worse than it was and Lisabeth sort of saw red . ’ |
| 9 | But they have to in our garden because erm I know the first she was a the one we 've got and the first day me husband brought her he went up to fetch her out the kennel and she sort of saw this cat and it 's a |
| 10 | Tiny azaleas grew alongside bushes of sang used for Tibetan incense . |
| 11 | Oh I do n't know he under , when you that told he understood it a lot more than when she said it and she sort of went all |
| 12 | ‘ After all the Loot misery , ’ Codron told me , ‘ we sort of went quiet on each other . ’ |
| 13 | If you wanted pink you should n't of took all those pictures of young ladies , should you ? |
| 14 | And if you recall when my Colonel read John plaque it attributes to him er the aid in assisting us at in the establishment of that memorial museum , John gave us a er and sort of took that apart and hauled it over to and it was flown back to the States and that 's going to be a briefing operations room for the museum itself . |
| 15 | must of took whole lot of them |
| 16 | You should of did that ! |
| 17 | And I sort of started to get itchy feet to come back and do things in the early eighties and that 's when I went to Liverpool , I did a play with , I did Alfie with Alan who just directed the Commitments and er we went to a b and that really got me fired up to start again , and I sort of did some theatre stuff through the bits and pieces through the eighties until Love Hurts came . |
| 18 | So it kind of nursed this sparrow you see and got its wing bandaged up and whatnot . |
| 19 | I , I sort of denied all knowledge . |
| 20 | I wish we of had that knowledge when |
| 21 | Well erm made models with stones and other rubbish that we found about the place and a whole pile of had still standing . |
| 22 | I mean she 's had sort of had this depression |
| 23 | All the peedie crofts throughout did that . |
| 24 | Comparisons are with made restated figures . |
| 25 | All the pictures of us on the beach , with got all . |
| 26 | Complex component testing even with ATE available can take hours ( >4 hours ) and sometimes days , so it can take a lot of valuable testing time just to declare ‘ no fault found ’ . |
| 27 | The final victory , though , belonged to the band 's drummers and drum sergeant Gordan Parkes with took first place in Grade 1 , drumming on Antante DTS 4 Drums . |
| 28 | in there , and that was gon na be the disco , and this was the , you know , I mean it was a good idea , I do n't know why he pulled out with went half-cock . |
| 29 | But today the Earlys Social Club was spreading the news the trip was off , after the company it had booked with went bust . |
| 30 | But today the Earlys Social Club was spreading the news the trip was off , after the company it had booked with went bust . |