Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I went everywhere and no-one knew me at all .
2 and I tried all weekend trying to get only there from five to seven , and I got him after five o'clock on Tuesday
3 The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time .
4 and I had it on right and he came in right , and I was going , he was going , a long conversation all about little Harmony and everything and really going onto it , and I went to play it back and it had n't recorded anything .
5 One year new chain and I had it in that little on the tree ?
6 I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely .
7 I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years .
8 And I arranged it on that day at the time .
9 And I asked him about that particular morning 's exercise with the coastguard helicopter .
10 Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion .
11 Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time .
12 And I told them about this job I 'd done here .
13 You know , and I told you about that I 'm having my er done .
14 K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour .
15 And I 'll say this now , they was in business there , nextdoor , and I knew them like that , they says any machinery come here and use it , and they 'd got shears and all that sort of thing , and with their help , you know , I had these four locks and did them and took them down in no time to m to er , to and they was flabbergasted because of the quickness of them , you know , and they says er we can always find you sommat to work if er this is the case .
16 And I knew it from that first day when you came driving down to the chais like a crazy woman .
17 she looks really weird without them on and I saw her like this
18 And I saw it before that , about , yeah about eight as well .
19 My sister and I put him to good use .
20 Roughly , those over thirty-five , and I put him in that group , reacted with a mixture of impatience , embarrassment , and guilt .
21 I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford
22 But then I got the ES295 and I used it through most of the Sun sessions .
23 So one day , I got a newspaper , I rolled it up and I walloped her like mad .
24 His wound was covered lightly with a shell dressing , and I moved it to one side to have a look .
25 I had a clear view of them from a branch of a tree that overhung the water , and I watched them on several occasions .
26 I did my best to shepherd the animal out of the room but he did n't seem to know the meaning of obedience and I chased him in vain .
27 The hole I drew was about nine metres out and I fished it with that length of pole and a short line .
28 You assumed I would know to pick it up to like that and I grabbed it like that .
29 so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah
30 And er half heatedly she decided she ought , she could n't have any more children you know she 'd , I do n't think it was money so much that she thought she 'd got enough and somebody told her about this Slippery Elm , well you could get a Slippery Elm drink , you know you know these milky foods if you 've got a poor tummy , that that can , er she bought a tin of this Slippery Elm drink , and she drunk gallons of it and it was doing her good and she thought er she thought it would n't , she 'd gone wrong you see .
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