Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she did n't really tell me , it was just that I guessed , I 'd seen them quite a few times , mooning about , and I asked her if she was going to marry him . |
| 2 | I cam away feeling better because I 'd saved myself quite a bit of money , and I 'd done my bit towards helping the environment . |
| 3 | I had borrowed it about a week before . |
| 4 | Juliet felt quite pleased about this ; the girl was her own age , twenty , and , although she 'd seen her only a few times , she felt drawn to her cheerful , intelligent personality . |
| 5 | They had in any case been considering asking me to remove her , as she had caused them quite a lot of trouble in one way and another . |
| 6 | If she had made it just a few feet further she would have found safety in the homely atmosphere of the estate where she lives with her family . |
| 7 | If we 'd seen it once a year that was often , |
| 8 | He 'd trusted her ; even when everything seemed to point against her , and although he 'd known her only a few short days , he 'd believed in her . |
| 9 | Eva said it had taken them nearly a month to get booked up . |
| 10 | It had taken them only a short time to realise they were from opposite sides in the Therapeutic Wars , but it had caused little friction . |
| 11 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 12 | ‘ What happened was Chester Thompson brought them all down , because he had met me about a year prior to that and we just corresponded . |