Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood up while we watched and I realized he had magnificent horns , far longer than any I had yet seen . |
| 2 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 3 | I realised I wanted another guitar player . |
| 4 | This contrasts sadly with the experience of an elderly woman I met who suffered three bereavements in quick succession . |
| 5 | Carter and Cureton 's entries on " style " seemed to match the first brief and I found they complemented each other in interesting ways . |
| 6 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 7 | morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece . |
| 8 | When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’ |
| 9 | In the Tests I played I dropped three caught-and-bowleds and Don Tallon missed a chance behind as well . |
| 10 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
| 11 | He still spent every holiday with them , but I felt he needed more independence and so did they . |
| 12 | I felt I had good cause . |
| 13 | Sitting there in the London bound train ( I had thought it would never come into the station , that the whistle would never blow ) , I saw myself in a play , a melodrama perhaps — I felt I had Runaway Daughter written all over me … |
| 14 | I felt I needed different challenges , to move on . |
| 15 | ‘ I felt you disapproved last night , ’ he said . |
| 16 | But at times last season I felt it took second place from a few other clubs . ’ |
| 17 | I knew she had psychic gifts , but I could not work out how she was so clued in to this film . |
| 18 | She menaced me with the extinguisher 's nozzle and , because I knew Ellen did not make idle threats , and because I knew she despised all displays of macho violence , I obediently stepped backwards and watched as she transferred the extinguisher 's aim to Sweetman . |
| 19 | As a concession to the New Wave I wore a black shirt , black jeans , white socks and black suede shoes , but I knew I had uninteresting hair . |
| 20 | I knew I had bad eating habits when I started secretly to buy sweets from several different shops and ensure the wrappers were well hidden from my boyfriend . |
| 21 | I have been ever since I knew I had this trouble . ’ |
| 22 | I knew I needed some place to go inside myself — frighten people off — so I shoved three tapes and my Walkman in the middle of the bag beside the big fat envelope where I 'd squeezed all my dreams . |
| 23 | One day he wrote ‘ battting ’ , and when I queried this , he said , ‘ Well , I knew it had two t's , so I put three to make sure ! ’ |
| 24 | A couple I knew who adopted three children found that only one of the three was at all interested in finding out about his natural parents . |
| 25 | I knew he had previous convictions . |
| 26 | ‘ Bein' as how I saw what happened that night … ’ |
| 27 | Without waiting for my assent , he pulled writing materials from his cloak , where I saw he had several notebooks . |
| 28 | ‘ I saw you had some books on birds . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Maybe someone thought I needed some fizz , you know ? |
| 30 | Yes , yes , so would I , you know , right in the centre of the action , I thought we had brilliant seats . |