Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've waited so long , I 'd given up all hope of ever having a bairn . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If you 'd like to know the truth , I 'd given up all thought of trying to persuade you to visit Bertha . |
| 3 | An O S one to fifty thousand and that 's what I thought I 'd picked up this morning to take with me but when I looked it was Chester and Wrexham so it did n't do me much good . |
| 4 | It was only eight o'clock ; obviously I 'd conked out some time before everybody else , and they were still asleep ( I had heard appropriate log-sawing-like noises coming from Hamish and Tone 's room on my way back from the bathroom ) . |
| 5 | I met the company commander ; I told him I had brought up some grenades and barbed-wire ; I asked where I was to put them . |
| 6 | At least we would be out of the rat race until I had worked up some seniority in my job . |
| 7 | ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing . |
| 8 | ‘ Now I 've given up all hope ( of returning to Formula One ) . ’ |
| 9 | God knows how much there still is down there ; I 've seen great stacks and bales of it still with the Royal Navy markings on it , and I 've dreamed up any number of ways of getting at it , but short of tunnelling in from the shed and taking the cordite out from the back , so that the bales looked untouched from the inside of the cellar , I do n't see how I could do it . |
| 10 | generally cleaned up I 've pulled up some nettles and got the access to the greenhouse a bit better it 's a bit pooey in there in n it ? |
| 11 | I 've put down that rat races is Waddington 's and |
| 12 | ‘ And I 've brought up some bread and jam , in case anybody 's hungry . ’ |
| 13 | Secondly , if they accept those arguments , then before anything becomes public I then need to embark on a process of consultation with the residents themselves and with their relatives and with their staff , so that we can explain it carefully to them — what it 'll involve , the time scale , what their options are going to be , how we 'll go through this process and all the rest of it , all the ins and outs , and then I shall have to then go formally to a special meeting of the Social Services Committee , probably in April , to say that I 've carried out this consultation , that this is my recommendation as to the home the Council should choose , and if they agree that then we move into implementation . |
| 14 | Mr. Walker : As I have pointed out many times to the Hon. Gentleman , the toll on the Seven bridge was imposed during the period of a Labour Government . |
| 15 | I have given up all idea now of going to Kings and shall make my way across the Island as quickly as I can making a call or two on the way . |
| 16 | I have sat up all night attempting to watch the fish in the dark with the aid of a torch and the Orange Spot does venture out of the bogwood and hunts around for food . |
| 17 | We sorted all the papers I brought from ex employers and quite a lot of other stuff too , and I have put out several sackfuls of old paper and so on … |
| 18 | This would be a shame and later in this spiel I have put down some thoughts on the matter . |
| 19 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 20 | That 's why I have taken on this job ( and for my sins ! ) . |
| 21 | Many writing on the mid-seventeenth century at present would legitimately claim that I have marked out these positions too exclusively . |
| 22 | During the war she worked as a translator , and at the time of the action of the novel she has taken up this trade again recently . |
| 23 | She 'd given up all hope of having children , you see . |
| 24 | But , having fallen asleep in militant mood last night , she 'd woken up this morning reluctantly aware that she owed him an apology . |
| 25 | ‘ I know that you 've built up some kind of sustaining narrative behind your eidetic delusion — it can not but be otherwise . |
| 26 | " The breakfast 's on the floor , and anyway , by the time you 've cleared up this mess we 'll be gone . |
| 27 | Mm is that you 've saved up this year ? |
| 28 | You 've grown up that way . |
| 29 | You 've set up this meeting for me and I ca n't thank you enough . |
| 30 | After you 've sorted out this business with the boy . |