Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got sent down the judge said , ‘ You should be out for the baby 's birth ’ , but I was n't . |
| 2 | comment , and another time I 'd lit up a cigarette you know |
| 3 | I 'd grappled up the slope on foot just before and knew how steep and icy its surface was and which of the bigger rocks had to be dodged because they would foul the car 's underside . |
| 4 | I 'd built up a picture of you , like the one my father cut out and gave me , but it 's nothing like you , Dimitri . |
| 5 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 6 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 7 | I did n't have to think — I was leaping downhill like a goddamned goat before I 'd summed up the situation : which was they intended to rob me . |
| 8 | Twenty-odd years earlier , I 'd picked up an idea from the marvellously creative Bill Brown who was Director of Billy Graham 's Crusades in 1966–7 . |
| 9 | That was the filthy coastal town smelling of fish oil where I 'd taken over the driving . |
| 10 | if I 'd got here a minute quicker I 'd got you some chocolate biscuits you could of been having with that cup of tea |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd spent quite a bit of time then visiting district nurses and accident and emergency departments which gave me a real insight into the health service and an understanding of the commitment there was around , ’ Cruickshank said . |
| 12 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 13 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 14 | One way or another , I had drunk quite a bit this evening , but I did n't need to powder my nose . |
| 15 | However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ? |
| 16 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 17 | I had wrung out the Spidersuit and Y-fronts and hung them over a Bible suck thinking how He would just have to lump a bare arse on His books for one night . |
| 18 | I wish I had summoned up the nerve to smile back . |
| 19 | And I 'm a very keen golfer and I had built up a reputation erm by playing in open tour open tournaments and meeting professionals and |
| 20 | I had lost even the will to be a coward . |
| 21 | Yet I felt at last I had straightened out the time that had buckled when I lost all my writing . |
| 22 | And so you , you , you I had stepped up a bit in , in in rank , I 'm a but erm there was being , on the social side course being next to the Sir Robert Peel , when we went down there , it was quite handy although I 'm not a drinking man , I never have been , I 'll go and socialize and I 'll have half a pint or two halves but I 'd never I 've never been one to go out drinking . |
| 23 | I had done all the cooking and was waiting for my husband to come home . |
| 24 | I had lit up a cigarette on leaving aunt 's house , without realising it . |
| 25 | I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am . |
| 26 | I had picked up a box of letters and was glancing at them , when Frankenstein returned from above and caught me . |
| 27 | They said that , in the narrow passageway , a corridor whose opposite walls I can touch comfortably with two hands , I had picked up an aluminium chair , ripped it in half , swung it around and hit a policeman with it so hard that he had to shield his head . |
| 28 | Somehow I had picked up the idea that putting the patient in a tub of hot water sometimes had the desired effect . |
| 29 | I had sorted out the flat really nicely , and had some money put away . |
| 30 | Months before the CPRS report came to ministers , therefore , we had reviewed the options and indeed in July 1982 I had set out the Government 's position , after consultation with the Treasury . |