Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You get your own ego to face up to its own problems and to make its own decisions , er as I mentioned before a very painful process and a , and a , and a rather gruelling one . |
| 2 | ‘ My reply was short and to the point and I 'm disappointed that what I regarded as a highly confidential matter between two clubs should , 48 hours later , be the subject of Press comment . ’ |
| 3 | — , 59 , of ‘ I came across a very classy furrier 's in Nottingham just as the shopkeeper was putting a jaunty looking ocelot hat on a stand . |
| 4 | I came across a very brief report about my mother 's death . |
| 5 | ‘ I came across a very bewildered woman asking for a cigarette and I asked her where she lived and took her home . |
| 6 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |
| 7 | I came upon a very old woman dressed from hat to woollen stockings and high boots in black . |
| 8 | I came from a pretty poorish background and now it 's nice to be able to give my parents money , and let them do things like go on holiday . |
| 9 | I mean I think it 's the class thing as well really , because I can remember when I was erm leaving school erm and I went to the careers erm teacher for my interview and I said I 'd like to be a journalist and she looked at me and I came from a very poor working class background in Tottenham , and she said ‘ I 'm sure you could be a secretary or a shorthand typist if you really tried ’ . |
| 10 | She was another young conservative , I guessed from a rather sheltered background . |
| 11 | George joined the ranks of the executive high-flyers , those with university degrees , I joined in a much humbler capacity . |
| 12 | I hope you are both as well as you can be , and to make up for my lack of inspiration here is a poem which I discovered in a very nice book of modern Scottish poetry : — |
| 13 | Daphne flitted from party to party while I walked at a slightly faster pace from lecture hall to lecture hall , our two paths rarely crossing . |
| 14 | So it was indeed a classic nightmare where I dreamt that I was the only person searching for the child , and the only person who saw that this vast Argosy was down near the coastline , and I landed in a most difficult position near the aircraft and found nobody else about . |
| 15 | In Suffolk , I worked on a more intimate scale , on smaller paintings of specified areas of landscape . |
| 16 | In this environment my overall feelings of job satisfaction as defined by Warr ( 1987 ) were greater than when I worked in a more traditional nursing culture — a point substantiated by Beardshaw and Robinson 's ( 1990 ) work . |
| 17 | I called on a conveniently passing traffic warden to help me out . |
| 18 | I started in a very modest way with the healing ball , an object that must surely figure in all cancer visualization literature . |
| 19 | From this stage I proceeded to a more general sense of superiority , which can only be described as moral . |
| 20 | Some weeks ago , I went to a most exciting block of modern flats called Waterside Point , near Battersea Bridge , that only opened last year . |
| 21 | So I went to a very good secondary school but I was in the A one stream right the way through and I was always within that top three of that A one stream and it gave me confidence and I really got on . |
| 22 | I went for a very short while to the Royal Academy of Arts for a leaving party being given for Mrs William Kerr , who firstly as Griselda Hamilton-Baillie then as Griselda Kerr , has worked so hard on the public relations staff of the Royal Academy , since 1972 . |
| 23 | So I went with a much smaller firm . |
| 24 | ‘ During my last pregnancy my husband and I went through a really tough time — in fact it has not ended yet and we are undecided as to whether we are going to separate or not . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're an offensive shit , Bellybutton , ’ I said in a very friendly voice , but he had already turned his attention away from me because a car had suddenly appeared in the yard . |
| 26 | ‘ I know it 's difficult to accept what has happened , ’ I said in an unctuously compassionate tone . |
| 27 | She also turned out to be the last close friend I had for an awfully long time . |
| 28 | The man at Capital told me to hold on , and I waited for a very long time . |
| 29 | David Bowie : ‘ I ran into a very strange type of paranoid person when I was doing ‘ Aladdin Sane ’ very mixed up people , and I got very upset . |
| 30 | Thankful to hear the change in his tone , I responded with a less playful punch , and soon we were on our feet slapping at each other with a wild hilarity , a contest in which inevitably I was the loser . |