Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men and women I met often spoke of regret and loss — not a nostalgia for the past , those glazed memories that falsify the hard history of the working people by claiming that the past was better . |
| 2 | ‘ I used ter sit at me front door when the weavver was good , an' when it was cold I used ter lay in bed till dinner-time . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel suddenly invigorated beyond measure , ’ he said with a grin . |
| 4 | And my father I think just went to school in the Wintertime . |
| 5 | And she got herself ready for bed and you know just went to bed by herself . |
| 6 | She felt suddenly dirtied by death , ashamed of the knowledge she had gained when she witnessed the cessation of breathing that marked the end of her parents ' lives , sad and sullied by the separations she had lived through . |