Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time I was becoming a little dissatisfied with the imprinting set-up that had become the stock in trade of my lab over the past few years , and I planned to try using an alternative form of learning in the chick . |
| 2 | cleani , co cos I got caught pulling a little girl 's pigtails . |
| 3 | I can speak with feeling about the frustrations I experienced trying to obtain a suitable movement here . |
| 4 | Someone has got to throw a great many things out of the window and get on with it . |
| 5 | Between Poitiers and l'Ile Bouchard and Mirebeau and Loudun and Chinon someone has dared to build a fair castle at Clairvaux , in the midst of the plain . |
| 6 | If it is possible , I want to continue to build a lasting basis for US-Soviet co-operation , for a more peaceful future for all mankind . |
| 7 | I want help to discover the real me after all these years . ’ |
| 8 | I want to start providing a complete office environment service — you know ; pot plants , palm-trees , the lot . |
| 9 | I appear to have strayed a long way from our original topic . |
| 10 | At this stage I stopped searching to have a little think . |
| 11 | I 'd hoped to get the poor man writing again . |
| 12 | It was still early , and the rain I 'd heard forecast the previous night was looking about ready to drop . |
| 13 | I knew I 'd been dreaming again ( or whatever we call it ) because , when I came out of it , the wooden post — that old pile I 'd clung to like a drowning man — was nowhere ! |
| 14 | In fact I 'd started caddying a long time before that , carrying golf-bags instead of delivering papers or milk for pocket-money . |
| 15 | I 'd expected to find a vacuous mess . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
| 17 | The horrible truth was slowly dawning on me : I 'd been so preoccupied with finding things like Wellington boots and torches , not to mention boning up on my Enid Blyton , that I 'd forgotten to read the small print . |
| 18 | ‘ I seem to have made an awful mess of things , ’ she murmured . |
| 19 | I seem to have collected an awful lot of those parking-tokens over the last few months . |
| 20 | Lying in bed , looking at the stiff poses in the pictures , I began to want to see the living reality — and the only reality to begin with for me was the singing that I heard through my sickroom window . |
| 21 | Everyone I know seems to have a small , broken family : sometimes broken up by death , sometimes by divorce , usually just by disagreement or boredom . |
| 22 | Palmer looks a negative choice , he 's not playing well either , I like to have seen a right side player in there ? |
| 23 | The three years I spent studying took a similar shape to my school years ; on the surface I did well , passing my exams with seemingly not too much trouble . |
| 24 | THE BUSES AND TAXIS I DETERMINED TO AVOID BECAME A CENTRAL PART OF NEARLY EVERY PAINTING . |
| 25 | The buses and taxis I determined to avoid became a central part of nearly every painting . |
| 26 | THE BUSES AND TAXIS I DETERMINED TO AVOID BECAME A CENTRAL PART OF NEARLY EVERY PAINTING . |
| 27 | The buses and taxis I determined to avoid became a central part of nearly every painting . |
| 28 | Mountbatten tried to reassure him , but added , ‘ I foresee having to fight a civil war against 10000 armed Burmese soldiers at a time when it is vital that my forces should be better employed . ’ |
| 29 | I take two examples which I find seem to embrace the fateful aspects of my life in the Service . |
| 30 | Since I 'd rather look at vegetation than at larch lap panels , I decided to try to cover the whole fence with a rich variety of climbers and wall plants . |