Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father 's regime , illegal fortunes , I hasten to add . |
| 2 | He told her to fetch a pencil and paper and when she brought them scribbled down several sentences in capital letters . |
| 3 | So when we were there in London I asked around several centers for rehabilitating women and I struck lucky . |
| 4 | Yes , and I , and I wiped down one side |
| 5 | mum , I read out all these school names , see if you know what they are , |
| 6 | ‘ I can not recall the dates but it must have been in the very late twenties if I was still at school , because I left just as soon as I could when I made up fourteen . |
| 7 | After I 'd done that I made up some new bombs to replace the ones I 'd used the day before , and a few extra besides . |
| 8 | The forecast from Livorno has spoken of increasing winds and I laid out all the chain before we rowed ashore ( feeling curiously British and eccentric using oars among so many outboards ) for the pasta and wine we had been promising ourselves since mid-morning . |
| 9 | The ways in which I lived out this my own appropriate identity within this vocation were diverse . |
| 10 | Though I beamed out telepathic bonds I batted |
| 11 | So I lent out some of his books , and they straight away came back and said , ‘ He 's not Irish , he 's Scottish . ’ |
| 12 | Each morning started off with me trying to find enough small change to get something to eat , and gradually , I sold off all my army kit at government surplus stores to finance my drinking . |
| 13 | I remember nothing whatever about the match , as I passed out thirty yards from the ground . |
| 14 | ‘ Out of the question or not , lad , I checked up first thing . |
| 15 | Eventually I checked out other guitar ads in the October issue . |
| 16 | Actually I checked out all about |
| 17 | ‘ I checked out some files concerning Munro yesterday . |
| 18 | We built a simple little device which could administer a mild shock to a chick held briefly in my hand — tested on my finger , the shock is no more than a brief tingle , and the chicks seemed scarcely to notice it — ; and I checked out Benowitz' finding . |
| 19 | No , I got over this problem by collecting data on a large series of babies to whom I had access during the preliminary work on this project . |
| 20 | When I got up that morning I had no father . |
| 21 | Well I was saying to Daddy actually I it would be better if I got up first and went in the bathroom . |
| 22 | Dear old Joe seemed just the same , but as I got better , he began to remember I was a gentleman , and call me sir again , and when I got up one morning , I discovered he had gone . |
| 23 | When I got up next morning , I said to her , ‘ Are you still proud of me ? ’ |
| 24 | so when I got up half past six and I got shaved now at last , gon na go and get ready and pull the curtains back , oh what a of rain , I says oh I says |
| 25 | She often opens conversations by telling people brightly : ‘ I got up this morning ’ , which seems to reflect her talent for being delighted by what is deeply ordinary . |
| 26 | ‘ I know who I was when I got up this morning , but I have changed so often since then . |
| 27 | I must say when I got up this morning I did n't feel much better than when I went to bed last night but there we are . |
| 28 | When I got up this morning , I nearly died ! |
| 29 | I got round this potential danger of tonal contrasts by ensuring that I was near enough to the boat to see it mainly in its own shadows ( figure XX ) , thus reducing the glare of white , and thereby allowing a less contrasting tonal interplay between boat and background . |
| 30 | Without any apparent break in the text and without any change of tone in my voice I got out some of the things I so badly needed to tell you . |