Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One knitter I know who found she 'd created this situation ( inadvertently , she admitted ) solved the problem by knitting epaulettes . |
| 2 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 3 | They found they had to aid each other to achieve coupling , or they would slip apart to achieve nothing . |
| 4 | But er we did n't I did n't go back , we 'd already we 'd we 'd got some land and er and we 'd set up er pig breeding and er we 'd got about a hundred and twenty strong store pigs at that time . |
| 5 | All Nottingham was beautiful and along there 'd got great big flags and they 'd trimmed all Christmas they 'd they 'd sewed all Christmas things on them . |
| 6 | The children themselves appeared , and after a second summer spent playing at the M's farm , and becoming ‘ socialised ’ by contact with that family , it seemed they had made some progress . |
| 7 | I really believed he did love this suede . |
| 8 | Although self educated he had written many books and papers on science , philosophy and religion . |
| 9 | It seemed he had lost all interest in that too . |
| 10 | Heather hit the headlines last week when we revealed she had dumped several pairs of her husband 's old socks , only to learn later he had hidden £500 in the sole of one . |
| 11 | I had thought it all through ; I reckoned I had covered all possibilities . |
| 12 | Rain guessed what had caused such changes : the realization that her talent did not stretch very far ; the passing of a way of life which had been so thrilling ; impending old age with few friends , little money and no certainty of a roof over her head . |
| 13 | ‘ It was hell when I discovered you 'd left that morning without saying anything to me , not even an angry goodbye ! |
| 14 | Later we discovered she had hit some obstruction and lost an engine — hence her strange behaviour . |
| 15 | Anyway , they all sensed they had to make this work . |
| 16 | PENSIONER Charlie Hill was celebrating a £180 fruit-machine win yesterday when he heard he had scooped another £2 million-plus on the pools . |
| 17 | But when he heard what had happened that morning his face darkened and he turned angrily on Sam . |
| 18 | But then I decided I had broken enough hands tonight . |
| 19 | I decided I 'd caused enough mayhem for one day . |
| 20 | But I met a man on the road to the other village — I 've pursued them over the mountain from Keswick and you know the road divides two ways — and he swore they had come this way . ’ |
| 21 | Shortly afterwards Nigger decided he had had enough heat for one day . |
| 22 | So he decided he needed to invest some time in , in that . |
| 23 | No surprise that every single person who met him wanted to turn that meeting into an incident , an anecdote , an event . |
| 24 | Yeah , they got they 'd got half hour 's drive from Minehead and that their car broke down , they had to go up , they had to call the , was it the A are they ? |
| 25 | I felt I had gained enough experience and as I was having the baby it all tied in together . ’ |
| 26 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 27 | You know , in that horrible time when I first knew I had to have this operation . |
| 28 | ‘ But I knew I wanted to do more cakes and could do much more interesting things . |
| 29 | I thought I had made that plain . ’ |
| 30 | She thought I had inherited all Miss Lockwood 's property . |