Example sentences of "[vb base] i [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 2 | On my first attempt of the Sound and Waves test I managed to score 20 percent , I then decided I had better read the tutorial before my second attempt in which I scored 60 percent . |
| 3 | Erm just remembering say I had to put four O Hs with N H , I was sometimes I was getting it right sometimes I was getting it wrong and stuff like that . |
| 4 | I remember I had to get some photos so I could get into the swimming pool for nothing . |
| 5 | ‘ Because I became a sister so young , I suppose I did have high expectations of myself . |
| 6 | I wish I 'd cycled six miles home ! |
| 7 | ‘ I wish I 'd made that point to the Committee . ’ |
| 8 | So if you feel at some stage that er this is n't for me then one of the things that we regularly hear is I wish I 'd done this course ten years ago . |
| 9 | I wish I 'd bought some chips — I 'm still pretty hungry . |
| 10 | I just wish I 'd had more respect for my body when I was younger . |
| 11 | I wish I 'd had fewer children — if I 'd known the way prices would go up … |
| 12 | I wish I had shown more patience . |