Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 I tried reversing it to five-one-five .
2 I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out .
3 I 'd done it for four years on the trot .
4 A few months after I left I met someone else and we had a wonderful relationship for a few months , but then guilt reared its ugly head and Marie persuaded me to go back because I 'd left her with two children .
5 None of the nurses spoke to me , nothing , till 2 o'clock that afternoon , which I 'd had her at 7.30 in the morning …
6 I did shock him with one answer , cos he he was expecting a totally different answer to the one I gave him which was correct , and you know that is unusual for me , but er I did shock him with one , but other than that it was erm it was er an excellent input all the way through the day , and they explained the differences and why they er approved some products and not the others , things like that , it was er spot on .
7 I did shock him with one answer , cos he he was expecting a totally different answer to the one I gave him which was correct , and you know that is unusual for me , but er I did shock him with one , but other than that it was erm it was er an excellent input all the way through the day , and they explained the differences and why they er approved some products and not the others , things like that , it was er spot on .
8 I did show it to one of the department and he read it through …
9 She says , I did n't feel th right about taking , I says , well when you get yourself straightened out , I says , if you pop into town and Kath 's in town , you bump into her , I said take her for one of them meals .
10 like that , no one knew , I was driving the car and I recorded everything that was in the car all night no one knew until the end of the night , I got the tape home , I go this is gon na be interesting I had to do it on one of my tapes though
11 I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared .
12 I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't .
13 I had to use it for one of Andy
14 Which was good for me ; if I had directed it in 1979 it would n't have had a chance . ’
15 Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions .
16 And I suggested charging them like sixty pounds for the three nights .
17 I 'd gotten myself a Herald Tribune and I sat reading it on one of the red seats there . ’
18 I intended to sub-contract it to one of my former students , a very , very skilful young man who had been with us on a fee-paying course for one year and then gone off and worked in a local workshop for another 18 months .
19 Nobody came to see me for three days .
20 It came into force for those states which had ratified it in 1953 .
21 It belonged to another College , which had let it to one of its fellows .
22 They were continual concrete evidence of the sleight of hand which had conjured me from one world to another .
23 The displacement looked to be of considerable extent , much larger than the chunk of 2020 which had brought me to 1816 , or the chunk of some mysterious medieval land which had arrived earlier on my front doorstep .
24 The results showed that capercaillie had vanished from 12 of the 56 forests which had held them for 20 years , and numbers had declined in nearly all the other forests .
25 Furthermore , a quarter of the freeholdings were in the hands of completely different families from those which had held them in 1575 .
26 As for the evidence of the by-elections , Attlee himself had discounted it in 1943 :
27 You tried putting them in two two sets of how many .
28 Lucy knew she had to tell him something , so she said , ‘ She got mad with me when I admitted you 'd taken me for two bush walks .
29 She 'd met him at one of Klein 's parties — a casual encounter — and had given him very little conscious thought subsequently .
30 She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business .
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