Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 2 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 3 | ‘ I got to charge you for the call-out , ’ said the cop . |
| 4 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 5 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 6 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 7 | Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay |
| 8 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 9 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 10 | Under the influence of this late surge of rational speculation I tried to view myself in a different light . |
| 11 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 12 | I hit violently at the door , I tried to force it with the nail , and managed to hurt my hand . |
| 13 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 14 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 15 | I tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember . |
| 16 | I tried to phone you during the week and mum said where is my little son ? |
| 17 | I tried to picture him under the sheet . |
| 18 | I knew Ellen hated the cold , and I tried to warn her of the conditions we might expect in those latitudes . |
| 19 | I tried to guess which of the women were the Russian wives of men stationed here and which were Latvian girls . |
| 20 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 21 | ‘ I tried to tell her in a matter-of-fact way that when you die you leave your body behind and go to Heaven . |
| 22 | I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall . |
| 23 | I seemed to do anything to the car , mind with the water pump I think they check , they have to er adjust the timing . |
| 24 | I 'd kept it in the bottom of my bra-and-pants drawer ever since I stole it from Dad . |
| 25 | I knew that I 'd loved you from the moment we first met and I 'd never stopped . ’ |
| 26 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 28 | I was clumsy and had to pick up a couple of notes from the floor and wipe the bags where I 'd touched them with a handkerchief . |
| 29 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 30 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |