Example sentences of "i [vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the the people I met made up for that . |
| 2 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 3 | Then , when I got fed up with that , I 'd go downstairs and make a racket on the old upright piano my nan had lent us . |
| 4 | Nah , I got fed up with that . ’ |
| 5 | So I got fed up with this . |
| 6 | I got fed up of all that daft nonsense . |
| 7 | last I got moved back in last night . |
| 8 | I was supposed to be running the operation but I got caught up with other business . |
| 9 | I 'm sorry I was late getting but I got held up by another lesson . |
| 10 | They bought me three years ago when I got dropped out of Mars-U before my geology finals . |
| 11 | This is , I 've got my from school , it says , I was shopping in town looking at some clothes when , suddenly I got pulled back from one of the , the changing room . |
| 12 | Yet every time I thought I 'd broken out of that cage you pushed me back again . ’ |
| 13 | And more than that , I 'd grown up with divorced parents and I do think kids need a mother and a father . ’ |
| 14 | I 'd gone along with some of the lads — my first wife was never that keen on travel — and there she was . |
| 15 | Me , I I mean , I 've done I 've done no work today because I went out to collect some stuff of a friend this morning and by the time I came in it was quarter past ten and I 'd gone out at ten to nine so I 'd missed the schools |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd bought our house in Wimbledon on what I 'd saved up from all my other work , ’ said Crawford , ‘ and then I had to start worrying about having to pay the mortgage . |
| 17 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 18 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 19 | I 'd got out of that because by the time I got home she was gone . |
| 20 | So here it 's something very like that I finished up with I 've if I 'd started off with that I would have finished up with twice what |
| 21 | Yes , Sally says we 'll do it , we 'll change it in the car alright , just as I was saying we had erm , we had roast dinner , Charlotte do n't aggravate him , we had roast lamb , erm and I 'd washed up by two o'clock |
| 22 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
| 23 | Of course I did n't know that cos I 'd conked out with this gas you see . |
| 24 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
| 25 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
| 26 | He could see more of mine , because I had swung round during that last exchange . |
| 27 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 28 | It was not the person I had read about in all the papers and magazines . ’ |
| 29 | I had acted out of good faith and in terms of what I thought were the best interests of my client . |
| 30 | ( I thought I had got out of this by saying it was a firm 's car park so it would be the same four drivers . ) |