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 . |