Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bearing this in mind , I sought to develop an approach which would try to distinguish what might be termed the ‘ players ’ in an industry , from those who are not players , whom I have termed the ‘ commentators ’ : |
| 2 | I failed to deposit an accurate simulacrum of her visage and demeanour with the left-luggage clerk of memory ; but I think she was in a shirt of a hue between sage and lovage , atop grey stone-washed 501s , green socks and a ridiculously unaesthetic pair of trainers . |
| 3 | I tried waving an arm to attract attention but only a weak flap of a hand was achieved . |
| 4 | At the age of twelve , I tried to get an audition for a place in the Suffolk Junior Strings , but the man who was organising it , said : ‘ had you played the viola , you would have got in . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ In these sculptures I tried to make an eye . |
| 6 | I seemed to hear an echo of Mala 's tasteless remark — ’ like a rat ? ’ — but I ignored it . |
| 7 | It was the first time I 'd seen an SS uniform , you know . |
| 8 | I 'd seen an accident the other day in town I 'd seen two and did you notice |
| 9 | TWO WEEKS after I 'd made an appointment to see Neil Spencer ( editor ) with writing samples and DJ charts from the UK , it was time to hand in my first article for the beloved , much-worshipped NME . |
| 10 | " I thought you might want to break off the match after I 'd made an exhibition of myself . " |
| 11 | I reported last time that I 'd made an approach to Chris . |
| 12 | On the day I left Woodline you knew that I 'd made an enormous mistake , yet you — ’ |
| 13 | Where 's the corkscrew ? ’ and he 'd answered — dead straight — ‘ What do you want a corkscrew for ? ’ and so I 'd made an excuse and left quickly . |
| 14 | She was refused entry at the dentist on formal hygiene regulation grounds , and luckily , oh so luckily , I 'd met an old friend in a shop opposite the dentist so he took Bella off for a walk . |
| 15 | ‘ I know it 's ridiculous , but it felt as if I 'd taken an enormous jump into the dark , that night with you … ’ |
| 16 | And one of the people I 'd taken an order from , they started pushing . |
| 17 | Had I wanted to do something in astronomy , which I did actually want to do because I 'd taken an interest in it , in fact I would not have thought of this type of molecule . |
| 18 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 19 | I admitted he visited me but that I 'd had a history of violence with him , and anyway I 'd got an injunction . |
| 20 | I 'd got an option from the firm and they were very good that way . |
| 21 | I 'd got an assortment of sarnies and some cans of Diet Coke and bottles of Perrier at a café behind Liverpool Street and was allowing plenty of time for the traffic to get back into the City . |
| 22 | I 'd stuffed an Olympus Trip camera into one of my Reeboks and some spare film into the other . |
| 23 | ‘ It was discovered I 'd had an acute infection for two or three months , ’ she says , ‘ which meant I was ill when I became pregnant in November — the worst possible time for a developing foetus . |
| 24 | I then found out that I 'd had an infection and raging temperature all the way through and Amber was born with it , too . |
| 25 | ‘ If I 'd had an op on my knee that summer it might have been all right . |
| 26 | With my impressions stored up from the initial set of interviews , I came to see an intriguing challenge . |
| 27 | For example , one client told his dealer : " I happened to see an item in my secretary 's Daily Mail . " |
| 28 | I happened to have an extra ticket for the recital last night … |
| 29 | I started to read newspapers and magazines more , and , for just about the first time in my life , I began to take an interest in current affairs . |
| 30 | And I gets this one out and I 'm reading through it and I looks at the name John , and then I began to take an interest in it and , here I discovered that my grandfather and my great grandfather that 's like my grandfather and my grandmother 's father |