Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It may represent a list of deities , a list of soldiers , or a discussion by a Hittite king of the building of the temple at Phaistos : all these suggestions have been put forward , though none of them has convinced even a quorum of scholars . |
2 | A number of Scottish councils adopted the kind of policies proposed by the 1981 STUC resolution , but none of them has set up a unit or appointed specific anti-discrimination workers . |
3 | I see I 've got quite a lot to learn about them . |
4 | comment , and another time I 'd lit up a cigarette you know |
5 | I 'd built up a picture of you , like the one my father cut out and gave me , but it 's nothing like you , Dimitri . |
6 | if I 'd got here a minute quicker I 'd got you some chocolate biscuits you could of been having with that cup of tea |
7 | ‘ I 'd spent quite a bit of time then visiting district nurses and accident and emergency departments which gave me a real insight into the health service and an understanding of the commitment there was around , ’ Cruickshank said . |
8 | I put brought out a list of points . |
9 | As you can see I have set up a set of equations which can be summarized in the following formulae : |
10 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
11 | One way or another , I had drunk quite a bit this evening , but I did n't need to powder my nose . |
12 | And I 'm a very keen golfer and I had built up a reputation erm by playing in open tour open tournaments and meeting professionals and |
13 | And so you , you , you I had stepped up a bit in , in in rank , I 'm a but erm there was being , on the social side course being next to the Sir Robert Peel , when we went down there , it was quite handy although I 'm not a drinking man , I never have been , I 'll go and socialize and I 'll have half a pint or two halves but I 'd never I 've never been one to go out drinking . |
14 | I had lit up a cigarette on leaving aunt 's house , without realising it . |
15 | I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am . |
16 | I had picked up a box of letters and was glancing at them , when Frankenstein returned from above and caught me . |
17 | One year I had worked nearly a month flat out , every day without a waking hour to myself . |
18 | I had worked out a peace formula that I thought might be acceptable , but when I showed it to Wilson he scoffed at it as being altogether too legalistic and proceeded to provide me with a formula of his own . |
19 | I had come home a day early . |
20 | Earlier , I had put down a keyboard part to a click track and so Gregg , Matt ( the Bissonette brothers , Dave Lee Roth 's erstwhile rhythm section — Ed ) and myself went and did Cryin ' . |
21 | I read the rest of the story ; the gist of it was I had idled away a year on full pay and what was the Government going to do about it ? |
22 | I had had quite a grounding in this at the City Temple . |
23 | So the decision was made for me , you see , it was only afterwards that I saw I had taken quite a step — a leap in the dark , in fact . |
24 | I had wondered how a man in his right mind could want to be with me and decided that no girl in her right mind would want to be with him . |
25 | selling and getting a result on that you see I 've covered a lot of stuff for you on that , I 've covered quite a bit with you on , er product knowledge , now would you say that you 're reasonably together there and where you want to be on product knowledge ? |
26 | I 've sent out a questionnaire at the request of the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs , to find out how English museums are structured , how they operate , their legal status , their independent rights and duties , for the new Italian Minister of Culture [ Ronchey ] who is very forward thinking , a journalist . |
27 | Er well I think I 've said quite a bit about it . |
28 | Erm , so you would leave what I call this deadwood lying on your spreadsheet , cells that are using up memory , they 're not needed any more erm , on many people 's spreadsheets I 've discovered quite a lot of deadwood using up large amounts of memory , like in some people 's cases two-thirds of the memory used by the deadwood . |
29 | But I 've packed up a bundle of bedding — towels — things like that for you to use in the meantime . ’ |
30 | I 've broken down a lot more than I ever have over the last three months . |