Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met her once on one of my off-duty bookshop prowls , took pity on her and gave her lunch . |
| 2 | I met him briefly in 1963 at a poetry reading given in Tokyo at the American Center by James Dickey . |
| 3 | Disconnect the mains lead to your PC and plug it into the Expert ; there are two sockets for power leads leaving the UPS , so I checked it out with two PCs . |
| 4 | I got her up to seventy-five , too . |
| 5 | And he had to do that every year in order to satisfy his stance his hat that he was wearing , that he was actually being the boss , and knocking the workers down , look I 'm holding down , what twenty-two point on six , er and he believed that my need was that I could go back to my manager , and say , look I got him up to two point one , . |
| 6 | ‘ I expected you in at 5 for your tea . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , I helped him out with one scene where this Danish prince sends his betrothed Ophelia mad . |
| 8 | And I went through them and I I narrowed it down to three things now . |
| 9 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 10 | I noticed it especially on one occasion when I was beset with problems which had made me very unhappy . |
| 11 | ‘ I faced them twice in 1984 and the memory still makes me wince , ’ said the Harlequins openside man flanker last night . |
| 12 | I followed her up to one of the other floors and caught her by the elbow . |
| 13 | I followed him down from 2,000 feet — put carb heat on — I was descending as quickly as the helicopter ; we managed to keep him visual . |
| 14 | I talked him down at one point |
| 15 | " I saw him just before nine and I thought then that he 'd been dead about twelve hours , perhaps a little longer . |
| 16 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 17 | getting a bit half two , I took him up at twenty to by the time I came down it was quarter to three , he was really rubbing his eyes |
| 18 | Then I put him away for two years . |
| 19 | Erm and while I was married I bought it back for twenty and a few months later I sell it for ten pound . |
| 20 | The nose-wheel is normally lifted at seventy knots to rotate at ninety , but because of the wind I held her down to 95 for a clean lift-off at a hundred after a run of a thousand yards or so . |
| 21 | I stole it out of one of the Posten 's haversacks when I was cleaning out the guard-room . |