Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even then research into the old approved schools showed children who experienced them had a reconviction rate 49 per cent higher than would otherwise have been expected from their characteristics and records . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps she did n't want me called a ‘ bird ’ . ’ |
| 3 | I forget what I said to them but the they forgot , the next , I do n't think I got a bit of grub ever , since then . |
| 4 | Mm I do n't think I ate a lot of them . |
| 5 | The angle of the lamp cord on the bar made me think I saw a hearing-aid cable extending from Fielding 's ear . |
| 6 | ‘ You know , I do n't think I saw a single frame . ’ |
| 7 | I do n't think I had a Christmas present all my blessed life . |
| 8 | I did n't think I had a chance of getting a job but Workington took the gamble with me and I want to repay them . |
| 9 | ‘ But I did n't really think I had a chance because I have n't acted before , ’ she said . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think I had a great deal to do with it . ’ |
| 11 | I did n't think I had an option — I was no teenage Lothario — but anyway I knew instinctively , without even having to ask him , that Mr Broadhurst would view the loss of my virginity as incompatible with my apprenticeship . |
| 12 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 13 | ‘ Why did I think I wanted a baby ? |
| 14 | Car dealer Ricky Evans , 30 , of Basingstoke , Hants , said yesterday : ‘ I did n't think I stood a chance so I 'd thrown the slip aside . ’ |
| 15 | I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there |
| 16 | They realised I told a better story when I was composed . |
| 17 | ‘ There was really no need — I realised I had a sweet and cheeses , you must have been starving . ’ |
| 18 | No , I , I mean I looked a , like a bit of a plucked chicken every day , but |
| 19 | I mean I saw a came and I started with him and I liked it . |
| 20 | But even so , I mean I took a , like a two or three year old on it and I mean it is it 's a nightmare ! |
| 21 | I mean I got a I banked two hundred pound extra last month . |
| 22 | I mean I got a sh , and we just go got the bus me and my brother . |
| 23 | It is quite a lot to read I mean I read a short story last week . |
| 24 | I mean I er I mean I had a lot of trouble |
| 25 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 26 | Oh yeah , I mean I had a horrible time with him for some time and it just , just |
| 27 | You see I mean I had an uncle , he 's passed on now , and he was an avid pipe-smoker . |
| 28 | I mean I bought a lovely wide broom . |
| 29 | You see it 's it 's high whereas I mean I bought a high bed , but even my bed 's not as high as that . |
| 30 | And I mean I paid a hundred odd pounds for it |