Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 2 | WITH over 100 others from various parts of Britain , I planned to visit many sites of historical interest and biblical fame . |
| 3 | I planned to amplify this change of mood by having different colour schemes . |
| 4 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 5 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 6 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 7 | With the help of Tony Wedd and Egerton Sykes I tried to contact surviving members of the Straight Track Club . |
| 8 | and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh . |
| 9 | In a famous recent case , someone said : ‘ If I 'd seen this pile of bricks on the side of the road I 'd never have thought it was art ’ . |
| 10 | If I 'd wanted that kind of wife , I 'd have married Eleanor . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd bought two bottles of cider and I went down my friend 's house and I had two neat vodkas and two vodka-and-limes and I got drunk . |
| 12 | I 'd found some bunches of violets that were n't much good , but I thought I might sell them in the pub , or that some kind gent might treat me to a sandwich . |
| 13 | I 've got quite into port though , I 'd finished that bottle of port by Tuesday night |
| 14 | Now I , I 'd got all sorts of alternatives to buy . |
| 15 | They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet , and I 'd got tremendous scarring of the gut . |
| 16 | But if I 'd had eight months of thinking , I do n't think I could have taken it . |
| 17 | John Lee Hooker : ‘ Woke up this mornin' , found I 'd had 43 years of chart activity … ’ |
| 18 | Frankly , if I 'd had any forewarning of this then I 'd have made certain that our paths would never cross again ! ’ |
| 19 | When I went to bed , I had a few ‘ sort of ’ pains , but I did n't think anything of them as I 'd had these kind of niggly pains a lot over the last week or so . |
| 20 | I 'd had twenty-five years of booze and using other recreational substances . |
| 21 | Consequently , I began to develop different sorts of friendships , no longer based on silliness or naughtiness , but on joint and genuine attempts at co-operation and to understand not only the syllabus but ourselves and life in general . |
| 22 | So , when I finished reading that explanation of it , maybe I 'll have a stab at it . |
| 23 | So I decided to do some investigating of my own . |
| 24 | I DECIDED TO PUT ALL SECTIONS OF THE LAKE AND RIVER SYSTEMS IN THE BACKGROUND |
| 25 | And I decided to paint one part of the wall which had not been painted before . |
| 26 | So I started making some calls of my own . |
| 27 | I started to make little demands of Shagbadly . |
| 28 | I struggled to make some sense of this new and appalling complication . |
| 29 | I offered to do any kind of work , teaching , sewing , cleaning , so that I could become independent again . |
| 30 | I felt very sorry for her by now and for want of knowing how to express my sympathy I offered to make another pot of tea . |