Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was really no need — I realised I had a sweet and cheeses , you must have been starving . ’ |
| 2 | Even as I shouted I sensed the utter absurdity of my words and the ludicrous figure I presented , a slovenly , plump young man , so obviously clumsy and ineffectual , rabbit 's ears of shirt-tail escaping from my waistband . |
| 3 | My hair had more shine than before and I found it left a stronger smell than other conditioners which I really liked . |
| 4 | I found I had the best of both worlds . |
| 5 | I noticed he had a slight limp ; I recalled the attack on me the previous day and the wounds I had unwittingly inflicted , but decided to keep the matter to myself . |
| 6 | ‘ I noticed he had a few extra bits and pieces on . |
| 7 | I kept my hand pressed to the bottom of the boat , my fingers freezing in the icy water swilling round us , but I noticed it grew no deeper . |
| 8 | Got a bloody assignment to give in and I forgot I lost the bloody address ! |
| 9 | If it was , I reckoned I had a few minutes while he walked back there . |
| 10 | Someone claimed they saw a huge wormlike thing slither out of the meteorite and bury itself in the earth . ’ |
| 11 | When I turned I saw a long patch of the fluorescent dye that the Germans carried staining the sea a light yellow-green but could not pick out the pilot . |
| 12 | As I developed I became a big bloke and that stood me in good stead . |
| 13 | I heard he saved a whole family during the Blitz . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ So I decided I needed a solid-body guitar for regular playing , and this friend of mine had this Firebird . |
| 15 | ‘ I felt we played a little bit like an end of season game and did n't work for each other . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I felt I needed a new challenge . |
| 17 | ‘ I felt I needed a fresh challenge . |
| 18 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
| 19 | ‘ Ah , but I knew we had a first-class lifeguard on board . ’ |
| 20 | Imagine that somehow I knew you regarded the proposed arrangement with distaste . |
| 21 | I knew I wanted a black and white hall with marbling , and also metal runners across the stairs . |
| 22 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 23 | ‘ I knew I needed a good right to win . |
| 24 | I knew he had a private hope that some day he might make a book with them . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought we had a good chance of tracing the Spidex people through London . |
| 26 | I thought we had a net list for them . |
| 27 | ‘ It was a competition I thought we had a realistic chance of winning . |
| 28 | Cantona being the more obvious example , but I cant remember one sale where I thought we got a decent price . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought we agreed no more after first 500 unless get all captives , ’ read Alton Keel 's notes , quoting Weinberger at the end of the day . |
| 30 | I thought we needed a single person as a sort of … catalyst . |