Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first started to smoke a cigarette , I felt ill but I kept on because everyone else was doing it , but with sniffing glue when I first tried it I enjoyed it , it 's something I did enjoy , that 's the reason I started anyway . ’ |
| 2 | And yo when I look back an and er and think of even when I first started nursing a lot of the girls we used to get in , they thought if they kissed a man they were going to have a baby . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll ask no leading questions , as I remember how I loathed them when I first started seeing a lot of Tom . |
| 4 | When I first started becoming a woman on playing on the beach and I ran home petrified . |
| 5 | … there was , of course , a dispute between the parties at the time in question in the sense that they could not agree on the amount of the yearly rent ; but it was not a dispute in which each had formulated a view which was then placed for decision before the independent surveyor . |
| 6 | The rectangular figure which this creates provides a frame for the Greimassian narrative chiasmus in which the four eyes become four ‘ I ’ s or ‘ actants ’ . |
| 7 | Any government planning such a large-scale redistribution of income as that contemplated by Mr Smith should create an environment in which those hit stand a chance of making the adjustment without being driven into bankruptcy . |
| 8 | Most of them were darkish-brown with fine features under mops of hair in which several had stuck an ostrich feather or a wooden comb . |
| 9 | But what I hate above all is this constant sanctimonious attitude of the socialists that they think they know best and their continuous craving to create a nanny state . |
| 10 | The English primary school ( which at its best has provided a model for educationalists across the world ) has one unique characteristic . |
| 11 | TO RECEIVE PRESTEL you first need to become a subscriber to the service . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , do you first need to form a picture of the two of us sitting in that café discussing your father — an eidetic image — before the words come to you , or not ? ’ |
| 13 | I 'm much less agnostic than I was , Ellis , when you first started to make an issue of this . |
| 14 | Or are you just going to get a change of gear and go off again on your merry way ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You two bring tip a kid , you have got to be joking . ’ |
| 16 | You two went hill-walking a lot then , did n't you ? |
| 17 | To assess our machines we each had to knit a tension piece in white and send it in . |
| 18 | Er the developers as we all know have a right to go to appeal which they did and |
| 19 | And er we all had to do an action plan at the end of the course , and then three months later |
| 20 | Every morning before we went to school , we all had to take a bucket appropriate to our size and run a relay from the communal tap to the barrels until they were full . |
| 21 | We all had to find a partner and make up imaginary names . |
| 22 | This took us through Bedford , Northampton , Daventry and Leamington Spa to Solihull where we all managed to catch a couple of hours ‘ shut eye ’ before heading into Birmingham . |
| 23 | And when I sit here it means two things : first , that we all stop playing a part at that moment and second , that I 'd like you all to come over and sit down to discuss what we 've been doing . " |
| 24 | They will ensure that we all continue to have a say in Labour 's decisions and I urge you to support them . |
| 25 | We all have to make a living . ’ |
| 26 | And erm they tasted I mean we all used to have a taste of it and it tasted quite nice ! |
| 27 | To depict the aggregate supply function we first need to draw a distinction between aggregate supply in the short run , where expectations may be sluggish in reacting to external events , and the long run where money is neutral and where the supply of output is invariant with respect to the nominal money supply and the absolute price level . |
| 28 | She was a sweet-natured girl of a placid disposition , and considered herself fortunate to have found a suitor . |
| 29 | They each have to do a community service : Elena visits old people and Mentor has become a lifeguard . ’ |
| 30 | Attack ; midfield ; defence ; they all like to have a go . |