Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped going there a season ago too difficult to get a drink . |
| 2 | if I 'd got here a minute quicker I 'd got you some chocolate biscuits you could of been having with that cup of tea |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd spent quite a bit of time then visiting district nurses and accident and emergency departments which gave me a real insight into the health service and an understanding of the commitment there was around , ’ Cruickshank said . |
| 4 | I began to feel more a part of this vast foundation of the great Halton Experiment . |
| 5 | Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer . |
| 6 | I started fishkeeping almost a year ago and I have a 3ft community tank , which is filtered by a Fluval 203 external filter . |
| 7 | They did yoga-based classes quite near me so I started going once a week . |
| 8 | ‘ I managed to get away a touch early , ’ the endocrine specialist said as the car slid out of the parking bay and into the main driveway , then wound through the open , grassy grounds to join an arterial road that ran along the winding Brisbane River . |
| 9 | Like you go , even saying I did serve quite a bit faster than her , which I do like , you know she still should o i if the bar done seven fifty she should have , she should have done what two , three and a half ? |
| 10 | Of course I did study quite a bit of Chopin in my early years , and there was a brief ‘ middle period ’ during which I played one recital in Vienna consisting entirely of Chopin Polonaises and Liszt Rhapsodies ! |
| 11 | I only looked , I did take quickly a look at them but , you know I thought oh I ai n't got I did n't really have time to mess about for long you know . |
| 12 | One way or another , I had drunk quite a bit this evening , but I did n't need to powder my nose . |
| 13 | Well yes I had to spend quite a lot of time on the line to her because er her husband 's been quite ill with bladder trouble . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything . |
| 15 | Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went . |
| 16 | One year I had worked nearly a month flat out , every day without a waking hour to myself . |
| 17 | I had come home a day early . |
| 18 | I read the rest of the story ; the gist of it was I had idled away a year on full pay and what was the Government going to do about it ? |
| 19 | I had had quite a grounding in this at the City Temple . |
| 20 | So the decision was made for me , you see , it was only afterwards that I saw I had taken quite a step — a leap in the dark , in fact . |
| 21 | The UGT , the CCOO and the Spanish Confederation of Employers ' Organizations ( Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales — CEOE ) agreed at a meeting with Solchaga on Dec. 27 to recommence talks on a social pact which had foundered almost a year previously [ see pp. 36406 ; 36777 ] . |
| 22 | I was about to respond that she 'd added quite a lot to the letters , but Masha came out of the bathroom . |
| 23 | She did go away a lot but normally told somebody first so it was odd . |
| 24 | Apart from the single ecstasy dose , she believed she had drunk only a glass of wine that night . |
| 25 | Even 4 September seemed an age ago now , part of a deluded past when she had believed her abduction was a simple crime committed for gain , when she had thought her release was imminent , her restoration to the pampered life she had led merely a matter of time and money . |
| 26 | Having spent hours daydreaming about Portugal and Dom João , she had given scarcely a thought to the alternative . |
| 27 | She knew that , without meaning to , she had given away a lot of her life and thought , and wished she had not . |
| 28 | But sometimes she had seen just a glimpse , a fragment , of an unknown person , deep and inward-looking , complex , full of contradictions . |
| 29 | Ellie tried to imagine how her mother must have felt as she had left Ireland by boat , to sail the Atlantic and marry a man she had met only a handful of times . |
| 30 | She had assumed rather a lot , it seemed — or perhaps Caro had deliberately misled her ? |