Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course everyone knew all about it , just as they knew that the Mackays , poor souls , had done everything they could for the boy ever since they took him in for adoption . ’ |
| 2 | When they grew up and went off into the wild I suffered dreadful pangs . |
| 3 | In my days as a Justice 's Clerk I saw enough corpses to know that death can grossly disfigure even the comeliest of faces . ’ |
| 4 | I had nightmares about scrums and tackles from a very early age and refused to play as a linesman , in case I got involved in violence . |
| 5 | I had n't even looked at the floor in case I got nostalgic for my own personal locks now lost to me for ever . |
| 6 | My erm , when I was little , I used to have this reoccuring dream , and it was really , really scary , and I just , I used to get really scared , I did n't want to go to sleep , in case I had this reoccuring dream , and what it was , was erm , I do n't know , I , I think I did n't like swimming when I was little , so that might , what sparked it off , and I could n't swim for ages |
| 7 | ‘ If that was the case I found great difficulty in seeing how he could get permission from my local authority to license me , ’ he said . |
| 8 | In this particular case I used wild roses , plus their buds and leaves . |
| 9 | It was my responsibility I brought that child into the world , and there was no way I was going to thrust her off onto other people . |
| 10 | In addition I recovered three William III sixpences that came up from a depth of between 9 to 10 inches . |
| 11 | ‘ Despite my close relationship with Sonauto I had solid contacts with Honda and I remember the problems I brought on myself . ’ |
| 12 | Sainsbury 's own-label champagne I bought two years ago tastes even better now , developing greater fullness and depth of flavour without losing its keen edge or sparkling personality . |
| 13 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
| 14 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 15 | Mum I finded two that 's not together |
| 16 | We then found that we did n't have enough cash to pay the landing fees , and in response I offered Portuguese escudos , converting at the rate in the newspaper . |
| 17 | To see if topical streptokinase , as in ‘ Varidase ’ ( streptokinase and streptodornase ) could be absorbed from a wound site and produce a similar response I measured anti-streptokinase titres in patients with wounds . |
| 18 | Thwaite is also on the Pennine Way and it was the Pennine Way route I took one August cloudy day lip and out from the village towards Keld . |
| 19 | For half an hour I thought that was the end of our career . |
| 20 | Oh shit I thought that was a two . |
| 21 | In my early struggling days as a writer I spent occasional days as a film extra . |
| 22 | In fact , I arrived at a look I liked fifteen years ago and I have hardly changed it since then . |
| 23 | Like the woman 's no good Of course I told some things about Wendy . |
| 24 | The stair of my billet creaked , however , and no matter how carefully I tiptoed , in the morning I was always greeted with , ‘ We heard you come in last night ’ , and of course I felt guilty , especially as we could not defend ourselves , having to pretend that our work was of no account . |
| 25 | Of course I felt guilty — I 'm as guilty as my aunt . |
| 26 | Of course I looked sad . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course I got that from a chap in Intelligence , ’ Woodruffe said . |
| 28 | Of course I had this spell er er do n't forget I was five years as a prisoner of war , and a lot of interest because I was a union member pra b previous to that you see ? |
| 29 | By a coincidence I met this man on the summit of Sergeant Man in the Lake District two months later . |
| 30 | As I biked up St Giles ’ yesterday afternoon I passed one of the group walking up to North Oxford . |