Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I got bowled over twice and lost sight of Greg completely , but when I finally got back alongside him at the green he was really excited .
2 I 'd fallen quite badly and had disc problems with my back .
3 By ten I 'd crawled as far as the door .
4 I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again .
5 It had been advised by my doctor that a year 's holiday in another land would build me up , as I had grown too quickly and had , as the phrase goes , " overgrown my strength " .
6 I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral .
7 He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him .
8 I had come this far and was determined to make it to France .
9 There was no fire and I had switched off long before the port wing touched the ground , I saw him hare across the airfield diagonally opposed to the direction of the hangar , and indeed the aircraft , and at the same time he was haring away towards Findhorn .
10 But if just once I feel I 've run as hard as I possible could , in good shape , and I 've still only done 27:50 , maybe I 'll be happy to say , ‘ Oh well , Solly , you 've been kidding yourself all along ’ . ’
11 I 've said quite often that ga it could be
12 and I bought her but when I came out the loo he is playing with the bus going wheeee , he was having a great time with that , I looked at him and I said got to give that to Charlotte , no , no , I do n't like it I want the house , meaning the garage , so I 've gone out now and bought her a circus
13 ‘ I feel that I 've gone as far as I can here , ’ Knowles said .
14 ‘ I think I 've gone as far as I can with it , ’ said Tony .
15 But , you see at February we 're then into review er cro er reviewing the PDP 's for some reason or another , I 've written down here and profiling reporting to parents .
16 ‘ And although I do n't think I 've played as badly as people have said , I think I can get more out of myself , and more out of others around me , if I play in a midfield alongside Gazza . ’
17 I 've lived here longer than you .
18 Anyway , I 've cut down considerably and every now and again I 'd try an ’ stop and fall off the rails again .
19 I 've worked out now that I 've hit the woodwork 10 times this season , so two inches either way and I could have had 14 goals instead of four , ’ he lamented .
20 Right , what I 've come round here for er I 'm going to Israel in a month .
21 I 've come home once or Mice with blood coming from my back-collar stud-band and my shoulder bones .
22 You know I I I 've cancelled down before but you know in this like .
23 I 've got up again and put on G.P. 's clavichord record .
24 By the time I 've got up there and slithered through the cut-through , Casey has found himself in a fight .
25 or tattoos , or fairground art , I 've got down just as examples
26 So that 's why I ended up doing science and I 've got this far so I ca n't be bad at it .
27 I have persecuted more furiously than Paul … .
28 I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved .
29 I have eaten there once and came away describing it as something not very special .
30 Okay , we can agree what I have said so far but then I 'm going to have to look at other things once I 've made further changes .
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