Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was planned to appoint development officers whose work would cover a local area large enough to keep them occupied full time but sufficiently small to be manageable . |
| 2 | Yeah , I have worked all my life in various jobs and I 've never yet met a man who hated me nor have I hated any man , and I think there must be many women here who think the same thing . |
| 3 | On this occasion I had neither heard nor seen the tigress , nor had I received any indication from bird or beast of her presence , and yet I knew , without any shadow of doubt , that she was lying up for me among the rocks . |
| 4 | No sooner had I completed this act of , shall we say , mercy , than a wonderful feeling of peace and calm came over me . |
| 5 | ‘ Now where have I heard that name ? |
| 6 | Where had I heard that voice before ? |
| 7 | ‘ Never in my career , ’ said the First Pilot , ‘ have I heard such insolence . |
| 8 | Anyway I 'll , I 'll just finish er telling you this , so Robert 's then sitting back smug with himself and looking at me as if to say what do you think about then , and I 'm thinking I 've heard these words before , where have I heard these words before |
| 9 | Had I heard any rumours to that effect ? |
| 10 | I remember that we sat opposite each other — the arrangement I most preferred — so that I could observe evéry modification of his countenance ; and I have to say that never in all our acquaintance had I witnessed such patience and sheer kindness . |
| 11 | At no time was I given any indication , by any BW personnel , that there were any reservations about the project . |
| 12 | ‘ Have n't I given sufficient indication that I 'll never marry her ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Have I grown another head ? ’ |
| 14 | Oh by the way if you see Jackie say yours made one glove for Matthew and he 's half way through the next one . |
| 15 | I said , I said thing is I said last time everybody thought Carla was gon na get highly commended or honours do you remember ? |
| 16 | that 's what I 'd guessed , erm , so I said no , I said they 're fine , so she said oh I 'm ever so sorry I said do n't be I said these sort of things get around , I mean it 's , she kept go and then I went on to describe how I virtually done not too a dissimilar thing going up the road trying to talk to people about writing in to object , you know with this planning application and erm , I said I sort of knock on someone 's door up there and I thought it was the next door that the husband had died and it was that one |
| 17 | Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + + |
| 18 | ‘ H-have I done much damage ? ’ she managed to ask . |
| 19 | I done that writing . |
| 20 | Oh I done that chocolate |
| 21 | Do you know I 've been so busy , I done that van this morning , I 've done my housework and two loads of washing been over Petes ' did I tell you ? |
| 22 | Doing it bit by bit I done all Ross ' bedroom yesterday . |
| 23 | What have I done all day ? |
| 24 | Because I done extra metal work for three years right ? |
| 25 | There was a man I worked with — I done seven seasons along with him : and there was n't so much as an angry word or dammit passed between us . |
| 26 | And what have I done this time , Mr Malpass ? ’ |
| 27 | Yeah , I done some wash this morning got it dry whilst it |
| 28 | This is what I done last time , and I stayed behind and I just |
| 29 | I done another poo |
| 30 | So they got in on the scene and I seen young men that was walking the streets that had nowt to do put a football kit on with G M B written across the front turn out and become super human beings , you never seen nowt like it , they were so pleased to associate with like something like that . |