Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cleani , co cos I got caught pulling a little girl 's pigtails . |
| 2 | I can speak with feeling about the frustrations I experienced trying to obtain a suitable movement here . |
| 3 | Someone has got to throw a great many things out of the window and get on with it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I want to start providing a complete office environment service — you know ; pot plants , palm-trees , the lot . |
| 7 | Instead , I want to try to develop a further view of what it means to see criticism as a significant feature of higher education . |
| 8 | I appear to have strayed a long way from our original topic . |
| 9 | At this stage I stopped searching to have a little think . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | In fact I 'd started caddying a long time before that , carrying golf-bags instead of delivering papers or milk for pocket-money . |
| 12 | I 'd expected to find a vacuous mess . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
| 14 | Everyone I know seems to have a small , broken family : sometimes broken up by death , sometimes by divorce , usually just by disagreement or boredom . |
| 15 | I I like do support a narrower area of search for that reason . |
| 16 | Palmer looks a negative choice , he 's not playing well either , I like to have seen a right side player in there ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | THE BUSES AND TAXIS I DETERMINED TO AVOID BECAME A CENTRAL PART OF NEARLY EVERY PAINTING . |
| 19 | The buses and taxis I determined to avoid became a central part of nearly every painting . |
| 20 | THE BUSES AND TAXIS I DETERMINED TO AVOID BECAME A CENTRAL PART OF NEARLY EVERY PAINTING . |
| 21 | The buses and taxis I determined to avoid became a central part of nearly every painting . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | I keep threatening to have a clean shaved face . |
| 24 | But I do expect to have a lot of laughter , I do expect to have a relaxed and open atmosphere . |
| 25 | Although I do seem to remember a little scene after you 'd carelessly cut your hand at the fountain , when I mentioned a few more personal attributes that were to my liking . ’ |
| 26 | Not that I 'm complaining because I realized they had a job to do , but they were all firing their questions at once , and I do like to give a civil , considered reply . |
| 27 | It 's got a bad stigma to it and that 's what 's the main problem with it , y'know , this junkie in a dirty squat with a needle hanging out of his arm and OD'ing and dealing on his doorstep and everything and looking like the pictures you see of people falling to bits , but for me personally it 's not like that , y'know , I do try to conduct a normal law-abiding life . |
| 28 | Erm you know I mean i i wi the Queen I think has given a wonderful example and her family life and I feel very sorry for the way her her children have you know the stresses of modern life ha have caused all these things and I feel for Charles an and Diana deeply . |
| 29 | Er our colleagues I think have chosen a different period trend . |
| 30 | In retrospect , I would probably have saved a little bit more , but there it is — I did manage to save a little bit anyway . |