Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I noticed you looked pretty stunned , ’ she said drily . |
| 2 | He wore a sailor 's short sword by his side , and I noticed he had only three fingers on his left hand . |
| 3 | Most of us went to church on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day , and I felt I had so much for which to be profoundly thankful . |
| 4 | I knew she had this little vanity that she did n't like people to see her with her spectacles on . |
| 5 | I knew I looked so different that he would not recognize me , but I was afraid all the same . |
| 6 | After all , I had no real claim upon your attention , and I knew I meant so little to you I could be dropped at any moment without a second thought . |
| 7 | As she told a close friend : ‘ I knew I had only one chance to get it right . |
| 8 | I saw her tipped down that cliff . " |
| 9 | The black man momentarily took off his sunglasses as though to examine Ellen more closely and I saw he had very hard and very cynical eyes that were suddenly turned full on me . |
| 10 | ‘ We only train twice a week so Orient are obviously fitter than us , but I thought we gave as good as we got . ’ |
| 11 | I thought they looked still modern ! |
| 12 | I thought she looked really good . |
| 13 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 14 | I was watching for him erm I 'd been to the loo and I glanced out the er landing window and I thought it looked too tall for you . |
| 15 | I thought it looked quite good . |
| 16 | I know that sounds quite sad and it 's embarrassing that I copied him , but I ca n't help it because I thought it looked so great on him . |
| 17 | I thought it looked very good . |
| 18 | At the end of the day I thought it looked very attractive , but whether it will catch the eye of a customer when I display it on the craft stall is another matter . |
| 19 | Oh , I thought you said not young ! |
| 20 | Oh no I thought you bought just some plain green ones . |
| 21 | You feel like er , that 's whose , like ex soldiers throughout the company , and he said to Colin er , he said , how many people are you thinking about employ , our Colin seems to think there 'd be enough work to keep 'im going , like , he says , he says , well how many people are you thinking about employing , he says , only only me and me like , it 's oh , oh , he says , there 's plenty of work to keep two of going , he said , I thought you employed about six . |
| 22 | Absolutely now I mean i i it 's interesting for women because I suppose in Australia I was a Republican and here I suppose I thought I saw about two erm now for me to have used that word thirty years ago I would possibly have been locked in the garden shed and left without food and drink |
| 23 | I thought I knew that much about the country . |
| 24 | and erm , ha , got home , did n't wan na go out , there was me I got changed , I put on those new leggings I was all in black I thought I looked rather nice , you know , and Gary said what you all dressed up for ? |
| 25 | Instead , she asked me why I thought I drank so much , and I told her why I thought I did . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought he looked rather hungry , ’ I answered . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought he looked rather feverish this morning . |
| 28 | I thought he looked very smug . |
| 29 | ‘ Wherever I went I met very friendly , helpful and cheerful people , ’ he said , but warned that Northerners were unnecessarily defensive about the region . |
| 30 | And I I did I went completely mad and that 's the only ever time I 've ever hit anybody in my life , honest . |