Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But little by little , as I became absorbed into rural life , I came to enjoy my ‘ inconveniences ’ . |
| 2 | I slid down until I became entangled in some bracken . |
| 3 | I got injured in this game as well . |
| 4 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 5 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 6 | Er I got rid of that thing . |
| 7 | I was out and under the bonnet when I got stopped by this policeman . |
| 8 | Then , as the weeks went by , I got filled with this sense of pride . |
| 9 | I had a conversation the other day with Con that reminded me of what I used to be , before I got corrupted by this place . |
| 10 | I was dead thin and not eating anything and then I got sacked for gross misconduct , y'know , for never going in and that . |
| 11 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 12 | Yeah , but married couple there did have a couple of people there that got married while they were in the T A but they were n't allowed , they never allowed to sort of buddy , buddy together I tell you why I got put with that woman . |
| 13 | Each day , in my duties , I got ferried from one side to the other . |
| 14 | ‘ I think I got trapped into that statement . |
| 15 | ‘ My wife and I got married in that church ’ |
| 16 | I came from Jamaica over twenty years ago and I got married in this country and I have stayed here ever since and although perhaps I might want to go back to Jamaica it 's not home to him . |
| 17 | So instead of a slap on the wrist I got promoted to high-flying executive symptoms . |
| 18 | Once I 'd broken into this solicitor 's and all there was there was this big safe , y'know the type I mean , a big square box that was on this big slab of polished wood . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd hoped for personal service , ’ said Giles . |
| 20 | She looked me up and down and adjusted my tie an inch or so ( I 'd gone for green silk and I now had two ties ) , then said : |
| 21 | as a pension , so if I 'd retired at that point , and then worked part time |
| 22 | I 'd retired by this time . |
| 23 | Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place . |
| 24 | ‘ About some stolen property , ’ said the other , who , I 'd decided by this time , had shifty eyes . |
| 25 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 26 | On a taxi ride across the Clyde Valley — Hamilton , Motherwell , Wishaw going with my father to the psychiatric hospital where my mother had just been admitted , I was overwhelmed by the past , not just the place names that had filled my childhood when I 'd lived in this part of Scotland over twenty years before , but another past to which I had even less access : a prelude to my own . |
| 27 | If I 'd paused for more thought I perhaps would n't have had the nerve , but I simply opened his door , checked up and down the corridor for observers ( none ) and went inside , shutting myself in . |
| 28 | When I came back to England I was very humbled really to erm because I arrived in Nepal three hours before that crash and erm a lot of people had thought I 'd died in that crash and erm the patients had thought I 'd died as well and they had to put a big notice outside to say that I 'd been alright , they had lots of people ringing up . |
| 29 | ‘ It put me right up in the mood again , I 'd forgotten about that sort of intensity . |
| 30 | I wear them most of the time , otherwise I 'd arrested for indecent exposure |