Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a Mirror Group reporter who met them said many were IRA sympathisers . |
| 2 | That had changed tremendously , so easy it was to get into the country , that I went in and out of the border about three times , because having got into Yugoslavia , I realized I had some Italian currency , so I drove out again , spent my Italian currency , and drove back again . |
| 3 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 4 | I realised I wanted another guitar player . |
| 5 | It was then that I realised I needed some first aid training . ’ |
| 6 | They 'd got ta be secure as you could imagine and er not easily picked , if you follow what I mean and er yes , made I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 7 | Saw the bit where , it 's got like tha that where he 's been , he said , I think it 's because I had the , I smoked pot or something , marijuana once then I got I got busted or something and ! |
| 8 | As I approached I recognised one of them as a Medic from Brigade H.Q As we chatted together , I could see a number of dead Commandos lying on the lawn in front of the Chateau . |
| 9 | He banged it into us very successfully , but singing Mozart 's Requiem 30 years later I found I knew most of it by heart . |
| 10 | I started off by smoking it and then , when I injected it , I found I got more of a hit , y'know what I mean . |
| 11 | I started off by smoking it , but later when I was injectin' it , I found I got more of a hit , y'know what I mean . |
| 12 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 13 | When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’ |
| 14 | morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece . |
| 15 | A few thousand years ago , some violent explosive phenomenon occurred which hurled numerous bullets ( ‘ shrapnel ’ ) into the molecular cloud with velocities probably in excess of 400 km s -1 . |
| 16 | This was partly because of the structure of the lexicon used which enabled efficient storage and search , and cut off non-productive alternatives at an early stage . |
| 17 | They found that for married men who were household heads under age 45 , the proportions ‘ out of work ’ ( a wider concept than we used which included those who had given up looking for work because they did n't think any was available ) was about nine times as high in the local authority as in the occupied sector . |
| 18 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 19 | But in Tom 's room , when Peter had poured the wine into two mugs and an inch into a glass for her and she had tasted it , she found she liked this wine that had a taste of how elderflowers smell , reversed her decision and asked him to do as he had offered and fill her glass . |
| 20 | Odette found she lost three stone keeping busy , then to her dismay found she was pregnant again . |
| 21 | In the later pharaonic centuries Egypt found itself sacked several times by Libyans , Ethiopians , Persians and Assyrians , before being conquered by the Greeks under Alexander in 332 BC . |
| 22 | It 's only cos she mentioned she wanted some bread . |
| 23 | When we moved we had one armchair and a sewing machine . |
| 24 | When the sun rose we did all the necessary and then noticed this cat only had one eye . |
| 25 | In my study , a white mother , previously married to a full-time skilled manual worker and now living on benefits , described her changed economic circumstances like this : |
| 26 | In addition to the financial and statistical information already mentioned they had available two reports , one on Conferences , the other on Leisure Facilities in Hotels . |
| 27 | She and Earl Spencer worked on a book for the Greater London Council called What is Our Heritage ? and soon found they had much in common . |
| 28 | In the latest they were called to the home of a man in his early 20s in Frenchgate , Richmond , but found they needed more equipment so took him back to the Richmond Fire Station and released the cuffs with a hacksaw and vice . |
| 29 | Now , for the first time , they found they needed large numbers of new people , with new skills , and they needed them quickly . |
| 30 | Carter and Cureton 's entries on " style " seemed to match the first brief and I found they complemented each other in interesting ways . |