Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These I keenly fought competitions make use of all the excellent sports facilities throughout the Academy : cricket , tennis and clay pigeon shooting in the grounds , golf , swimming in Sandhurst 's own indoor pool , and even rowing on the lakes . |
| 2 | I intensely envied DJs . |
| 3 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 4 | So popular was this usage at one time that I recall examining final school-practice for one college when in observing two full days of drama lessons I only saw games , no drama at all . |
| 5 | I only saw highlights on match of the day , but from what I saw , the play was amazing . |
| 6 | I only had scratches . |
| 7 | Like Powdermaker ( 1967 ) , who recorded fieldnotes in Mississippi only when she was away from her field data , I found I only took notes at the time if I was willing to risk begin interrogated about what I was going to do with the information I was recording . |
| 8 | I only did mornings but even the mornings were too much for me . ’ |
| 9 | I just took opportunities and worked at them . ’ |
| 10 | I just hoped things would get better . |
| 11 | I just signed forms to say that I was no longer responsible or had any claim on the property or whatever . |
| 12 | and I was gon na get pizza , but there was n't , there was n't any so I just got chips and sausage . |
| 13 | I just got certificates . ’ |
| 14 | As a Methodist minister , Father was a performer of a very special sort , and in a way I guess I just swapped congregations for audiences . |
| 15 | So what I , I , I fucking spent ages . |
| 16 | So I gradually amassed armfuls of small twigs , which I carried back to my cave . |
| 17 | ‘ I once had ideas of sailing around the world , doing a Sir Francis Chichester , you know , but work got in the way , and I had to lower my sights . ’ |
| 18 | The proctologist handed me three envelopes , one addressed to each of us , then told me that if I ever had piles I could rely on him to cut them out for cost . |
| 19 | I think , no , I mean been , I always had lessons every time I 've been . |
| 20 | But I always had books to read and pictures to paint and it was lovely in the summer when those theatrical people from London came down and put on all those Shakespearian plays out-of-doors on the cliffs . |
| 21 | I always had hopes of you ! |
| 22 | ‘ I always imagined models lived on lettuce leaves and iced water . ’ |
| 23 | Because I was loud and had red hair , I always played hookers in TV series like Bergerac , The Sweeney , Fox and Minder . ’ |
| 24 | I always wore clogs , and if an iron came off while I was cycling to town I could take it to him , go off somewhere like the pictures , and it would be ready and waiting for me straight afterwards . |
| 25 | I always thought nurses were a tough crowd . |
| 26 | I always thought toads were a greenhouse asset . |
| 27 | ‘ I always thought awards were something other people got . |
| 28 | ‘ I always heard graduates were n't welcome there ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I always liked ducks , ’ John says . |
| 30 | I always did things differently . |