Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle . |
| 2 | I tried to tidy up a bit when I first came to work here , but I soon found out I was wasting my time . |
| 3 | I tried to crush up a salt tablet in a cup and dissolve it in the water but she moaned when I held the cup to her lips and tried to turn her head away . |
| 4 | ‘ I promised to ask around a bit , and it occurred to me that the book might contain a clue . ’ |
| 5 | After a while I did something else I had n't done for several months : I began to rough out a poem . |
| 6 | I began to feel more a part of this vast foundation of the great Halton Experiment . |
| 7 | I decided to draw up a proposal for a book which would attempt a synthesis of structuralist and feminist ideas — not with any enthusiasm , and with the hope that it would never actually get done . |
| 8 | Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer . |
| 9 | ‘ I managed to get away a touch early , ’ the endocrine specialist said as the car slid out of the parking bay and into the main driveway , then wound through the open , grassy grounds to join an arterial road that ran along the winding Brisbane River . |
| 10 | I went to rinse out a towel in the hand basin . |
| 11 | Well yes I had to spend quite a lot of time on the line to her because er her husband 's been quite ill with bladder trouble . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything . |
| 13 | Oh I 'd forgotten about that , right I had to go back a couple of times did n't I Bev ? |
| 14 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 15 | Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went . |
| 16 | ‘ Similarly , I did n't want any obvious arms on it so I had to work out a system of manipulators — things that did things , like a grip mechanism or a gun . |
| 17 | ’ And I had to come out a minute early to pay it back . |
| 18 | But every time I wanted a piece of wood , I had to cut down a tree . |
| 19 | When I read essays by male Art Historians I had to knock out a lot of crap like when they talk about the rape in inverted commas … |
| 20 | I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time . |
| 21 | ‘ I had to jump over a hedge , ’ she said , ‘ and I tore my bloomers . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Sister , I had to send out a dresser . |
| 23 | She tried to remember why a gathering storm upset people . |
| 24 | ‘ Tell me how you came to take up a life of crime . ’ |
| 25 | But his wife Shelley seemed in great shape yesterday as she prepared to kick off a TV career . |
| 26 | Anyway , she seemed to cheer up a bit listening to their trite old remarks about it coming to everybody , and after that her mother had been all right and seemed to accept it . |
| 27 | Alternatively , you might have found yourself without the ready money you needed to snap up a bargain — like that washing machine you saw in the sales . |
| 28 | He observed in a mocking tone , ‘ I think six months would be pushing it , even if you managed to summon up a miracle . |
| 29 | Millions of viewers became aware of some of the practical and emotional problems and watched as she struggled to bring up a baby without a partner or an income . |
| 30 | She managed to hold down a job as a journalist with a local newspaper , but was finding it increasingly difficult to produce a reasonable standard of work when suffering from PMS , which was sometimes debilitating . |