Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " 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 | It seemed he had lost all interest in that too . |
9 | ‘ It was hell when I discovered you 'd left that morning without saying anything to me , not even an angry goodbye ! |
10 | Later we discovered she had hit some obstruction and lost an engine — hence her strange behaviour . |
11 | Anyway , they all sensed they had to make this work . |
12 | I decided I 'd caused enough mayhem for one day . |
13 | 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 . ’ |
14 | Shortly afterwards Nigger decided he had had enough heat for one day . |
15 | So he decided he needed to invest some time in , in that . |
16 | No surprise that every single person who met him wanted to turn that meeting into an incident , an anecdote , an event . |
17 | 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 ? |
18 | I felt I had gained enough experience and as I was having the baby it all tied in together . ’ |
19 | 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 . |
20 | You know , in that horrible time when I first knew I had to have this operation . |
21 | I thought I had made that plain . ’ |
22 | But we had to go and take it into his culler I had one day at that , I thought I thought I 'd had enough coal . |
23 | Molly felt she had lost all control of the situation and was only anxious to withdraw from it . |
24 | She felt she had earned this amount of entertainment . |
25 | She knew she had drunk more wine than was wise . |
26 | She knew she had seen this man not just in the fog , but in the Rockingham public house . |
27 | God knew she had had enough practice in ten years of policing . |
28 | ‘ I thought you had spent all night asking them . ’ |
29 | Just when you thought you 'd got some idea of the size , a cloud would stream past and the perspective would wind back . |
30 | ‘ I thought you wanted to do some shopping , ’ Tony murmured . |