Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't particularly like the name at first — I got called things like Stew and Stew-Pot at school — but I 've got used to it . |
| 2 | I tried to draw G.P. from memory again today . |
| 3 | I tried to keep despair at bay , telling myself that some sort of mistake had been made . |
| 4 | I stopped wearing Tampax ( cotton wool pricks ) , and I stopped eating meat in case the chunk of sizzling corpse I was about to sit down to had come from a male animal . |
| 5 | Yeah I thought I 'd seen cloud on top on the hills . |
| 6 | I 'd sent tapes to Radio One and I 'd also spent time devising quizzes that I thought would be better than the ones they were doing . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I suppose I 'd expected expressions of grief , probably pages and pages of it . |
| 8 | ‘ Not only do I have Penny 's word for it , but I happened to see Nicky on television last night , participating in a chat show that always goes out live from a studio just two blocks away from our own building here . ’ |
| 9 | I vowed to question Lili about predestination . |
| 10 | I was so relieved that I began to weep tears of joy but Liza was not similarly affected . |
| 11 | I began to read pieces about separatism written by women who I did n't know . |
| 12 | Their laughter so infuriated me that I began to have thoughts of revenge . |
| 13 | I decided to put pen to paper and let you know of a few problems some of us have in trying to become machine knitters . |
| 14 | ‘ After his death I decided to sell poppies in remembrance of all those who died . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's just what I needed to put things in perspective . |
| 16 | I started taking smack at school , 'cos everyone in the — estate at that time was taking it and that was the only place you could buy pot and I sent one of me mates out from school one day to buy some speed and he come back with smack and said this is all I could get and I said I do n't want none of that , but in the end we ended up doing it because we was bored and we had nothing else to do . |
| 17 | ‘ I started reading books on astrology . |
| 18 | I decided when I was 11 and I started doing drama at school , when I came over from New Zealand , that I wanted to be an actress . ’ |
| 19 | I meant to say fuck off Tramp . |
| 20 | In fact I went to wave goodbye to grandma . |
| 21 | I learned to use humour against violence ; when my back was against the wall and the bullies were bearing down , some inner voice would lash out with wit enough to take the wind from the sails of my antagonists . |
| 22 | No I did visit Lawrence in prison after he was recaptured er and spoke to him about various things , including this er this incident and he did confirm that he had been at flat er for a couple of days er befo before the actual search . |
| 23 | When I was much younger I did take chances from time to time and can recall more than one close shave . |
| 24 | W. Hewer and myself towards Westminster ; and there he carried me to Nott 's , the famous bookbinder , that bound for my Lord Chancellor 's library : and there I did take occasion for curiosity to bespeak a book to be bound , only that I might have one of his binding . |
| 25 | I did see gordon in town a few weeks ago though if that counts for anything … |
| 26 | ‘ Though , ’ she qualified , ‘ I did enjoy botany at school , and I 'd love to see your ghost orchids . ’ |
| 27 | I had eschewed politics in favour of a life practising law and enjoying the amenities of a civilised society in the way of drama , music and literature and , in a more limited and selective fashion , the visual arts . |
| 28 | At seven I had to carry ID in case bus drivers attempted to charge me adult fare . |
| 29 | On Monday there was the English paper — mainly Twelfth Night , which was money for old rope as I had played Feste at school . |
| 30 | I had to take time off work , which did n't go down too well with the furniture store which employed me , and I was promptly given the sack . |