Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got bowled over twice and lost sight of Greg completely , but when I finally got back alongside him at the green he was really excited . |
| 2 | Sometimes I tried to go as fast as I could , but it was easy to let the sail out and slow down if I felt I was getting out of control . |
| 3 | I tried to look straight ahead until I reached the top , then I entered our attic room and stood there as my eyes accustomed themselves to the dim light . |
| 4 | I learnt to look ahead so as not to run out of stores . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd fallen quite badly and had disc problems with my back . |
| 6 | By ten I 'd crawled as far as the door . |
| 7 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 8 | I turned to look back once but Mum was nowhere to be seen . |
| 9 | Certainly ten years ago , in the flood-tide of my research interest in wild primates , I began wondering more critically than before about the applications of ethological theories to man , the species . |
| 10 | However , since I was very keen , I decided to go even better and invest in a macro lens . |
| 11 | I decided to walk as far as Bellanoch where a friend would pick me up for that weakening hospitality again - a dear old Sister Brush who shames me with her eighty-year-old energy , integrity and artistic confidence . |
| 12 | ‘ I started screaming so loudly that crowds ran to the scene which eventually made the policemen stop . ’ |
| 13 | Living in San'a , I was initially engrossed in the visual aspects of the architecture , but as I became involved with the Yemeni families , I started to record as accurately as possible all aspects of the traditional San'a culture that was rapidly being swallowed up by Western influence . |
| 14 | I started working straight away and started getting arrested — I mean , not once : I was getting arrested three times a day . |
| 15 | ‘ I managed to get away earlier than expected , ’ he replied . |
| 16 | It 's taken longer than I thought to get as far as this . |
| 17 | Because of my injury I did get as far as the Spanish Steps and the shops in Rome , but that was the extent of my sightseeing . |
| 18 | So anyway , I said to her the week before last when he went up on the Sunday , I said go up there and say to her |
| 19 | so I said go on then so he said , well he |
| 20 | so I had to lie down properly and crawl over the top of it . |
| 21 | By some mix-up , my papers did n't seem to be in order and I had to hold on there until the proper American visa came through . |
| 22 | But I had to pop up there and move back all the bits and bobs and the debris and everything . |
| 23 | It had been advised by my doctor that a year 's holiday in another land would build me up , as I had grown too quickly and had , as the phrase goes , " overgrown my strength " . |
| 24 | I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral . |
| 25 | I did n't sign on or claim money or nothing , so I had to go out there and steal to get money in my pocket and clothes on my back . |
| 26 | ‘ I had to go there anyway and I saw it . |
| 27 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 28 | So I got up , but I was that s weak I had to sit down again and er the n the nurse that come in she said , You stop there till doctor comes . |
| 29 | I had to sit down twice because of the roast beef and everything , which had gone straight to my legs . |
| 30 | He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains . |