Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you not find that er the work them became very sort of com compartmentalized if you like , very specific people were doing bits of jobs rather than a feeling that you were all part of a much larger thing ? |
| 2 | ‘ Thou left me speyed down wi ’ the family . |
| 3 | ‘ I asked why Sir John Santerre had such close links with Glastonbury ? ’ |
| 4 | I asked how things were now . |
| 5 | Though it was noon when I set out , I made up time , maintaining a speed of almost five miles an hour . |
| 6 | I realized why people confuse them with hearses . |
| 7 | Then I realised why comics earn more money than singers . |
| 8 | I met there Mr Philpot who will paint the ceiling in my bedroom … ’ |
| 9 | I met only Peter on 30 May as Paul was ill , and that only briefly . |
| 10 | Knowing this , I was still impotent , for I had nothing to put in its stead , no one to turn to for advice or support , and I had learned for myself nothing of life except that I was bad at living , and that where I loved I met only rejection and disaster . |
| 11 | It is the pantomime humour we all grew up with , where the compère talks about the organist 's big organ and his steamed up glasses . |
| 12 | My thought processes were still numb , but I got feebly into action , moving more and more strongly as I sought out wood for a fresh fire . |
| 13 | When I got indoors Mum was out but Frankie was sitting in her chair by the fire warming his toes on the fender . |
| 14 | As I got up Terry looked at me as if I 'd just announced I had a private income . |
| 15 | I got up feeling encouraged and thoroughly supporting her strong positive vision of Europe 's future . |
| 16 | ‘ I got here tongue as well , ’ the man in the checked cap was saying . |
| 17 | When I got home Mum and Dad were in their bedroom together and poor little Allie was outside banging on the door like a five-year-old . |
| 18 | When I got home Mum was acting very strangely and frogmarched me off to Derek 's house . |
| 19 | Oh well we 've been walking when we 've gone into town but I mean just between you and me but when I got home Bev said pop into town I 've got a parcel to post and I said well I ca n't I said because according to Des well nothing happened |
| 20 | and erm , then when I got home Monday night , that was how it was just left , you know , so there was about a |
| 21 | ‘ When I got there Mr Kordell was with Herbert Chapman and we went into a Lyons tea shop , where I signed amateur for Arsenal . |
| 22 | All I do I got out sort of the sort of about eight thirty and then I , I 'd work to about half three and all I 'd wan na do is , we , we 'd fucking , we 'd set up the cable then we 'd all sit down and do nothing while the old erm , the M O D people had obviously it , and then they tell us to take it down and move it and we move it and set it up again , its like out of a , out of a seven hour day , we 'd only work about three or four , like here . |
| 23 | That I got out Marks and Spencer |
| 24 | See what I got yesterday Ann . |
| 25 | OK I refused to go to Gran 's funeral last year , stayed at home and listened to the Top Forty top volume while I shouted out Nora 's big speech from The Doll 's House — ‘ I was simply your little songbird , your doll … ’ |
| 26 | I tried both novice mode and expert mode . |
| 27 | I tried both violin and piano , but always went back to guitar . ’ |
| 28 | When I 'd left the horse in the yard and gone in for breakfast I found both Mackie and Sam Yaeger sitting at the table with Tremayne , all of them discussing that day 's racing at Nottingham . |
| 29 | ‘ I found out 80% of Fijians who served on Christmas Island are dead . |
| 30 | I asked him to meet me when I found out proof that he — ’ |