Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I reached home , my wife made me promise never to go to sea again , and I thought my adventures had come to an end . |
| 2 | Then I crept forward to look at Granny . |
| 3 | and on his own , and said to mum , come up here and get away for the weekend , cos it 's a hell of a burden to carry , with no release , I mean even going on holiday , she has to book it , organise his packing , wash it , you name it , . |
| 4 | Many of the people I met also rely on loan companies and clubs who scour the poorest housing estates to find their neediest clients . |
| 5 | The men and women I met often spoke of regret and loss — not a nostalgia for the past , those glazed memories that falsify the hard history of the working people by claiming that the past was better . |
| 6 | Masha and I found further cause for depression as , walking in search of a tube station , we came to a major intersection , a roundabout of relentless , screeching vehicles , three and four abreast : for in the centre , on the small concrete island , we saw a man lying on his side . |
| 7 | ‘ I used ter sit at me front door when the weavver was good , an' when it was cold I used ter lay in bed till dinner-time . |
| 8 | It was 1.30 that Sunday night , I 'd just gone to bed feeling rather worn out after a busy week and sociable weekend . |
| 9 | I 'd just returned to Mistress Philippa 's when the bell began to sound . ’ |
| 10 | Maybe I 'd best push off home and look in again tomorrow . ’ |
| 11 | Before Bodo arrived I 'd already decided in favour of the gentler angled approach through the rip from the left , with an eye on building up gradually from the small to the not-so-small . |
| 12 | I 'd never heard of work till that moment , and there I was thinking of myself dressed in trousers and sitting at a desk with a ledger . |
| 13 | I 'd never heard of Eternity before , nor had anyone I knew . |
| 14 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 15 | Well I 'd never heard of salt being put down before ! |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd better go to bed , ’ said Leonora hastily , moving further away , but he held up his hand . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps I 'd better get in touch with him . |
| 18 | I did n't want him thinking I 'd only fired in self-defence . |
| 19 | It was the biggest crowd I 'd ever played in front of . |
| 20 | I saw the largest bare belly I 'd ever seen in life . |
| 21 | ‘ I get awfully frightened at night . |
| 22 | Barbara , it 's a good job you both went out with George again because I mean Dave 's got well I remember really knowing with hair ! |
| 23 | I returned home floating on air and went on preaching . |
| 24 | ‘ I feel suddenly invigorated beyond measure , ’ he said with a grin . |
| 25 | Er , thank you Chair , for the opportunity to introduce the paper which I do briefly bearing in mind what I , I see are all the pressures on you which will go on into the afternoon . |
| 26 | I then zealous to understand I I er , er , erm sought it Statutes , Volume thirty-three nineteen ninety three edition and studied most carefully pages six hundred and seventy-five to six hundred and seventy-seven and there I found an account of what has happened to Sections two and three and also for the first time light was shed upon Section two A. My Lords , I have from time to time ventured to express some doubt as to whether our legislative procedures were as excellent , as I 'm sure Your Lordships would wish them to be and when I recently suggested in the most mild terms to Her Majesty 's Government that they might consider some form of enquiry into our legislative procedures to see whether as they were as high class as they should be , erm I was given a very negative reply the clear influence of which was that the our legislative procedures could not possibly be improved and My Lords I do really think with respect that that is a proposition which is open to doubt . |
| 27 | Although in ’ Coarse Fisherman ’ I primarily write about coarse fish to be caught on lures — pike , zander , perch etc. — I do occasionally refer to game fish and in this feature I want to mention sea angling . |
| 28 | However , I do usually bow to tradition and give waiters and hairdressers a little extra . ’ |
| 29 | And really the slate industry I think probably hinges on quality being maintained you know I mean li like I said I do n't want to go in you know I 'm no expert on this sort of thing but erm A deep sense of of injustice I think is that and , oh my God if if we let him start making us just you know like robots produce more and more slate and laying off some of the older craftsmen and you know they do and David Price who knows and I mean th they put that and and then they the last fifteen years it was a it was a defunct slate quarry before you know and they I mean it 's not as i it 's not an easy thing to er work slate I 'm sure it 's d difficult and you have to know what you 're doing . |
| 30 | And my father I think just went to school in the Wintertime . |