Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I became pregnant at that point and was absolutely thrilled . |
| 2 | This survey , as so often happens , led from one thing to another , and I became interested in vernacular architecture and the people of the area , particularly in their work and homes over the changing years . |
| 3 | Er I would like to k to know more about what Michael is saying before I got involved in any discussion of that . |
| 4 | ‘ I had to pick up two bikes from Stockton and , because I could n't park outside my shop , I got soaked in heavy rain wheeling them in . ’ |
| 5 | I got ready with ludicrous haste ( why ? |
| 6 | I GOT worried about this album . |
| 7 | There was a lot of passing , running about and kicking which I found encouraging for this season . |
| 8 | I consented and , likewise , I wanted to explore the thicket of your thighs , which to my delight I found heavy with vernal dew . |
| 9 | They have a new , quiet , charming , and very well qualified resident doctor Doctor Booth , who has made a special study of excess weight , and whom I found full of sound advice . |
| 10 | I felt stunned by this affability , and stammered my thanks . |
| 11 | I felt sorry for poor Heathcliff , and while the Earnshaws were at church , I helped him wash and dress in clean clothes . |
| 12 | ‘ I sang live on Australian TV just a couple of weeks ago . |
| 13 | I crossed carefully-even at low tide the sea-weeds made the stones treacherous — then went to the boat-house window and peered in . |
| 14 | At last I grew tired of such rudeness . |
| 15 | This happened when I fell foul of former Tatler Editor Tina Brown . |
| 16 | Kitty says she got involved in amateur home porn video-making through swinging , the Seventies open-marriage ‘ lifestyle movement ’ that seems to have regained popularity among some suburbanites in recent years . |
| 17 | She got pissed on one bottle ! |
| 18 | ‘ Viola says she got mad about that interview in the paper , about marriages being broken up . ’ |
| 19 | When she got engaged to Shakespearian actor Tom Harklie , she bought an Australian Silky Terrier puppy called Mr Cod . |
| 20 | which was wrong , Valerie was over the moon really that she got engaged to this fellow , but he was much older than er Michelle and I , and er he did n't want to settle down |
| 21 | She became involved with scraping butter and marmalade on to a piece of toast . |
| 22 | There was probably a perfectly simple explanation , if only she could give her mind to it , but for the moment she seemed incapable of logical thought . |
| 23 | She returned silent from that communion , but roused to the dinner that Abul , Diniz and Nicholas spread in her chamber . |
| 24 | She lay awake for some time , puzzling over Fen 's behaviour . |
| 25 | She felt downhearted for another reason too . |
| 26 | She felt grateful to those fairy Brownie folk who had planted the stepping-stones in the river so firmly . |
| 27 | She tried to mask her true feelings from her mother and sister , but her throat ached with tension and she felt desperate for some action to be taken , to try to search for him . |
| 28 | She felt aggrieved at that thought and the accompanying flare inside her . |
| 29 | She felt starved of physical contact . |
| 30 | Pat had come to him and asked to be able to buy the shop — not with any money she had available at that time , but on a never-never basis , letting him have a share in the takings until the value of the business had been reached . |