Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion .
2 I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’
3 Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow .
4 comment if I asked you for some advice ?
5 In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me .
6 I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump .
7 I can confirm that , of course , I made none of those statements , but I believe that each of them can be attributed to the Leader of the Opposition .
8 We had a great trip and I met lots of other children . ’
9 I met lots of different men at university but when I started work the opportunities for meeting single men were really limited .
10 I sold them for fifteen pounds .
11 I got them in some shop in Covent Garden .
12 The first version there , is one that I did before I even looked at your , at at any of the homeworks , and I got myself into some awkwardness of trying to translate virtues , and ended up with beneficial properties , erm , which is hardly perhaps very idiomatic and the one underneath that is Jemma 's and the absent writer not that she could be embarrassed because she 's not here , erm , and she 's actually simplified more than I have , by half a line , you 'll understand .
13 I got it for six months , te
14 Well I got it from that travel agents
15 Mm , we went in that , we went and got me barm cakes and a bit , a few veg and that , went , oh I bought Li Joanne a little set of er instead of an Easter egg , it 's quite nice , I got it from that shop , you know erm next to Kingston and Hutch
16 I do n't see the resemblance of Stu and Paul Young though , perhaps I expected someone with Spiky hair & black leather trousers .
17 No I tried it on smaller needles
18 Without realizing , I found myself between two groups of youths throwing bottles at each other .
19 Wandering on , I found myself among dreary council flats , improved by a figure of Joseph holding the Baby high on a wall .
20 My first experience with boys was not a great success but it was n't the last , and later I found myself in worse scrapes than on that first occasion .
21 I ran away from him as fast as possible , and did not stop until I found myself in some fields .
22 I found him in great spirits .
23 I found them in those dawn hours .
24 Switching between the different combinations of effects and processors produced the same results , and apart from inventing some really stupid effect chains I found plenty of interesting combinations ; these could be mixed with the dry signal without losing any of the basic guitar sound .
25 I , I found it with utmost ease .
26 I found you at first light this morning , ’ he said , getting up to take her half-empty plate .
27 The males started fighting , so I moved one to another tank , leaving two females with one male .
28 His wound was covered lightly with a shell dressing , and I moved it to one side to have a look .
29 I caught him by cute observation ;
30 I approached it with some trepidation but the satisfaction of passing was immense , ’ he said .
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