Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'ad to pay three bob for a decent one . |
2 | Quite early on " I ceased to consider representative democracy as an absolute principle " , he wrote later , " and regarded it as a question of time , place , and circumstance … " |
3 | Falteringly , I sought to express these misgivings in my conclusions to a number of papers , conclusions that certainly brought no joy to my more optimistic colleagues in an emerging human ethology rooted firmly in the objective analysis of behaviour sequences and components . |
4 | That is the only reason I agreed to write this message to you . |
5 | WITH over 100 others from various parts of Britain , I planned to visit many sites of historical interest and biblical fame . |
6 | I planned to amplify this change of mood by having different colour schemes . |
7 | I planned to make one chair as a trial piece , and , if it looked right , to do a real run of six , using the trial pieces as ‘ templates ’ . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | ‘ I got to know one girl at the local teacher training college , and now if she is n't available she puts me in touch with one of her friends . |
11 | I got to have some beef in that role . |
12 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
13 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
14 | " Please — " I tried to formulate some plea in the middle of a pain , but it came out as a whimper . |
15 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
16 | I tried to put some money on the ‘ Stiffs ’ finishing bottom with the bookies . |
17 | ‘ At the World Cup final in Gothenburg , for example , I tried to treat each day as a normal day , doing my best in the individual classes and not worrying about the final result . |
18 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
19 | ‘ Of course , as men always will , I tried to extract some hope from her . |
20 | With the help of Tony Wedd and Egerton Sykes I tried to contact surviving members of the Straight Track Club . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | ‘ As you know a little while ago there were discussions between this Office and Stephenson Harwood [ the applicant 's former solicitors ] about a proposed interview to be conducted under the terms of section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 and I promised to provide further details to them of our proposed course of action which is now given to you instead of them : ( 1 ) This Office intends to hold an interview with you under section 2 on Thursday , 13 June 1991 . |
23 | I seemed to live two inches behind the front of my skin , that part of me created wilfully by my lovers . |
24 | I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals . |
25 | When I came to rehearse this scene with him , we went through it and he said to me , " That wo n't do , you know , " and I was shattered . |
26 | ‘ I forgot to give this letter to you when we were talking . |
27 | At around this time I began to give private lessons in Latin and mathematics to a few boys who were in their first and second years of school in Parma or who had to take an entrance examination . |
28 | I began to see another face in the posters . |
29 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
30 | Not long after moving house just recently I began to experience intermittent malfunctions with my home computer . |