Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't been happy for the last few months and when an old girlfriend asked me out I went along and enjoyed myself . |
| 2 | Oh , how I do like those lines , and when I repeat them now it brings back so many happy memories of that scamp of a grandfather of mine . |
| 3 | I like airy but if , when you push them down they come back up . |
| 4 | And then the whitewater caught me so I proned out and hung on — I was eaten up then I was spat out and then I was eaten up again and spat out again and the beach was right there , so I threw the board away and just rolled and rolled and tumbled , and I ended up in the river on the far side of the berm . ’ |
| 5 | No one seemed to want to serve me so I walked out and went home without so much as a plectrum ! |
| 6 | She told me when she came round . ’ |
| 7 | He did n't discuss it with me beforehand , just told me when he got back . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ My Carrie told me when I come in 'ere this mornin' , ’ Danny replied . |
| 9 | She told me when I come out of prison . |
| 10 | My mother told me when I come out of prison that I 'm very paranoid . |
| 11 | Simply the sense of physical disgust which filled me whenever I took up a brush and dipped it in paint . |
| 12 | assesses employees in the broad context so that you can show them where they fit in |
| 13 | She could n't lift you so she stepped back for me to do it . |
| 14 | I can show you where he hangs out — on the Isle of Mona — but do n't let on I told you . |
| 15 | when you put him outside he goes through , you know ? |
| 16 | I got so bad I could n't do it so I gave up . |
| 17 | It 's okay in cold water , but when you heat it up it breaks down into the carbonate , C A C O three . |
| 18 | There 's nothing around the sides of the stage except cold brick walls and if you put anything there you cut down the already poor sight lines even more . |
| 19 | Really all we 've got is what his sister told us when she came over . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He said he was representing nobody but Marie Wilson and he told us how he climbed out of the rubble in Enniskillen five years ago and somehow , through his daughter and his religious convictions , found the courage to say , ‘ Enough is enough , there must be a better way ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ If anyone had told me when I took over in November that we would be in the Irish Cup semi-final , I would n't have believed it . |
| 22 | ‘ You still have n't told me how he found out where she lived ! ’ |
| 23 | Pulling herself together she went out . |
| 24 | And I 've told her how she came about . ’ |
| 25 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 26 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 27 | Now that I had got it out I leaned back in my tubular steel chair with just the suggestion of a smirk on my face . |
| 28 | ‘ If you give it away it comes back in its own good time , like that dreadful assembly hymn , you know … and ‘ you end up having more ’ . ’ |
| 29 | It 's not the same for , different set-up and they do n't understand us therefore they come out with statements like that |
| 30 | I did it , she said in a clear voice : I heard someone calling me so I got up and came downstairs . |