Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
| 2 | Oh , it was terrible , I 'd seen it on video , it 's really sad . |
| 3 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 4 | And I explained that er I 'd met her in town , which I did , did n't I ? |
| 5 | I 'd met him in Nigeria . |
| 6 | I told Caroline I 'd met him by chance . |
| 7 | I 'd written it under hairdryers in TV studios , in mid-flight to sundry family holidays , from hospital beds and , occasionally , two weeks late , leaning on the fax machine in the local Pip-Pip-Pip shop . |
| 8 | I mean , I did n't drive the minibus until I 'd driven it without passengers . |
| 9 | Y'know I did n't drive the minibus until I 'd driven it without passengers . |
| 10 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
| 11 | I 'd gone off of it until we opened that one on Sunday when you came over and I 'd finished it by Tuesday , I was getting quite hooked on it |
| 12 | Well anyway , I do n't know what was true or not or what what was right , but I thought I 'd got it through seniority and we 'll leave it at that . |
| 13 | Not that I 'd told them about Chris , but they 'd suspected . |
| 14 | Er , it 's in the other magazine I fetched from work after the I 'd left them at work . |
| 15 | It was the sort of look between us which would have started alert interest in me if I 'd spotted it between others , and I thought I was hear to losing my grip on what I was supposed to be doing , and that I 'd better be more careful . |
| 16 | I said course you can I said I 'd had it for years like that . |
| 17 | I had n't , I 'd borrowed it from Duncan but I 'd heard the Hell 's Angel crack so many times before I suddenly decided to charge him for it . |
| 18 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
| 19 | The only occasions on which I had seen them in operation they had failed lamentably . |
| 20 | I had seen them in Kano clutching their swords as they slept in shop doorways where they were employed as night-watchmen . |
| 21 | ‘ Nicola was happier than I had seen her for months , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ( Looking at her , I was often reminded of the famous Lina Cavalieri as I had seen her in photographs . |
| 23 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |
| 24 | One night , long after the senator had chartered Wavebreaker , I had defended him to Ellen , saying that it was not Crowninshield 's fault that he had been born to wealthy parents , and that he had used his wealth well . |
| 25 | I had heard it in barrack rooms and Officers ' Messes all over England . |
| 26 | I had given them to Menna when he first left to take up his post . |
| 27 | A fortnight or so after I had dictated it in October 1971 , I had a telephone call from Harold Wilson to know whether I had read Wigg 's memoirs , and was I aware of the very personal attacks on him and Marcia Williams ? |
| 28 | The car might now be noticed from the entrance to the tower , whereas I had set it in shadow . |
| 29 | I suppose that Kenneth Ingram , the editor , had not quite made up his mind about what I had written , which is the reason why I had forwarded it to Eliot . |
| 30 | When I had left him for Bath , he had said , sadly , seeing me off at Salamanca station : ‘ I should have come with you when your father died . |