Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised I wanted another guitar player . |
| 2 | Carter and Cureton 's entries on " style " seemed to match the first brief and I found they complemented each other in interesting ways . |
| 3 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
| 6 | He still spent every holiday with them , but I felt he needed more independence and so did they . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I have been ever since I knew I had this trouble . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Without waiting for my assent , he pulled writing materials from his cloak , where I saw he had several notebooks . |
| 11 | ‘ I saw you had some books on birds . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Maybe someone thought I needed some fizz , you know ? |
| 13 | ‘ But I thought we had all day to get to the school , ’ remarked Endill . |
| 14 | And , and I thought we had this conversation two weeks ago |
| 15 | I thought we understood each other . |
| 16 | I thought we loved each other . ’ |
| 17 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 18 | Then the woman took a paper bag out and I thought she had some sweets and might give one to me . |
| 19 | I thought it required more teachers caring about their subjects as much as he obviously did . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought you meant that smack of his , that 's all . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I thought you enjoyed that sort of thing . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I thought you had more courage . ’ |
| 23 | I thought you had more self-control . |
| 24 | I thought you said this bundle belongs to the husband . " |
| 25 | I thought you wanted that headphone set ? |
| 26 | ‘ I thought you wanted some air , sweetheart , that 's all … ’ |
| 27 | I thought I saw some students go across the road , they went out of the main entrance and walked |
| 28 | Or I thought I heard these words , for Captain was growling so fiercely , I was n't sure . |
| 29 | I thought I spotted some magazines on that shelf . ’ |
| 30 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |