Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everyone has shared that view of course , two big questions have caused some to hesitate over Maastricht . |
| 2 | No-one has enjoyed such popularity over such a wide range of colleagues from the very junior to the very senior . |
| 3 | I shall go for it mesen tomorrow , you see I 've got five pound in house which |
| 4 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 5 | Blood-tests are now available to tell whether someone has had German measles in the past , and nobody in their right mind would suggest that such a positive blood test indicated the presence of active German measles long after the patient had recovered from the infection . |
| 6 | If this message is output again it shows that someone has had direct access to the ORACLE database . |
| 7 | I was disappointed ; I 'd eaten better food on board . |
| 8 | ‘ Even though I looked as though I 'd gone ten rounds with Mike Tyson ? ’ |
| 9 | I 'd seen other men in other companies , as innocent as I believed myself to be , hounded out because wrongdoers require a scapegoat where the wrongdoing concerns money . |
| 10 | In a famous recent case , someone said : ‘ If I 'd seen this pile of bricks on the side of the road I 'd never have thought it was art ’ . |
| 11 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 12 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 13 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 14 | I was wearing mostly stuff that I 'd pinched from films I 'd done mod gear from Quadropehnia and Take 6-cum-Paul Smith from Breaking Glass . |
| 15 | ‘ I wish I 'd made that point to the Committee . ’ |
| 16 | I 'd made some plans for Rainbow 's next tte — tte , scripted some frank revelations , an impassioned plea … |
| 17 | I decided I 'd caused enough mayhem for one day . |
| 18 | I 'd lost all interest in the music . |
| 19 | If I 'd wanted that kind of wife , I 'd have married Eleanor . ’ |
| 20 | I 'd bought two bottles of cider and I went down my friend 's house and I had two neat vodkas and two vodka-and-limes and I got drunk . |
| 21 | ‘ I came straight to Cochabamba with my family because we were lucky enough to have the money from my book and I 'd bought this land before leaving Bolivia in 1980 . |
| 22 | ‘ If I 'd taken more trouble with economics I might have been more effective as Prime Minister . |
| 23 | I 'd found some bunches of violets that were n't much good , but I thought I might sell them in the pub , or that some kind gent might treat me to a sandwich . |
| 24 | I 'd passed that fella on the road an' when I looked back she was talking to him ; then when I turned the cart into the alley the next minute , she was flying past , almost throwing the child at me . |
| 25 | I 've got quite into port though , I 'd finished that bottle of port by Tuesday night |
| 26 | Now I , I 'd got all sorts of alternatives to buy . |
| 27 | They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet , and I 'd got tremendous scarring of the gut . |
| 28 | And so I said , saying to my wife , Well , I said er , I 've got , I 'm going to get involved in bus fares to and from office , and I 'd got two kids at that time and I said er , I do n't know when Anne said , Well no good , cos she was a good socialist and all , and says , Right , no good letting money stand in the road as it will get by . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd had one week after another when my wages were light , what with fines and that . |