Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well I got to work all day and I 'm still oh do you think , want me I can get you two I 'll write you a list , . |
| 32 | My training as an historian would allow me to save what could be saved and is why I got to work many years ago . |
| 33 | I got fined two classes [ a class was half a crown ] a week for twelve months , so it mounted up . |
| 34 | I was er er there was something that I got told many years ago that I |
| 35 | I got told last night . |
| 36 | Cos I got told this afternoon he have n't made a very good job of this cleaning up ! |
| 37 | Soon as I got paid last month . |
| 38 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 39 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 40 | Although I tried to do this visualization several times a day , I found it best and most rewarding first thing in the morning when I and my mind were fresh . |
| 41 | I tried to hold this woman up in a car park underneath the council offices . |
| 42 | " Please — " I tried to formulate some plea in the middle of a pain , but it came out as a whimper . |
| 43 | I tried to ignore both discomforts , but I was n't happy . |
| 44 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 45 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 47 | I tried using some spray furniture polish , rubbed well in , on the areas that were jamming . |
| 48 | Joan Warren and I tried to label each member as she came in , and the visitors ' book was passed round , but we inevitably missed people , so a head-count was impossible . |
| 49 | I tried to leave certain areas vague so they could use their own creativity rather than just copying my cartoon . |
| 50 | I tried to implement this philosophy , as I suspected Chelsea was no different from the East End . |
| 51 | I tried to put some money on the ‘ Stiffs ’ finishing bottom with the bookies . |
| 52 | ‘ At the World Cup final in Gothenburg , for example , I tried to treat each day as a normal day , doing my best in the individual classes and not worrying about the final result . |
| 53 | My multiple personality required multiple scripts , and from my study of graphology I tried to create individual scripts that conformed to the analyses of heavy down-strokes , ‘ pasty ’ loops and uncrossed ‘ ts ’ : I was especially interested in ‘ pasty ’ strokes , which are supposed to indicate a rich sexuality , and disconnected letters , indicative of ‘ inspiration ’ . |
| 54 | But I tried to keep one thing — the foot — in focus throughout , because it seemed to be moving slowest . ’ |
| 55 | I recall the situation all the more clearly because , when I tried to market those rabbits , the dealer thought there was something wrong with them . |
| 56 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 57 | I tried to get this message on to the network by sending to but the seems to screw things up . |
| 58 | I tried to get some compensation but only managed to get a little … and that was six years afterwards , which was no use at all . |
| 59 | I tried to get some pizza things as well . |
| 60 | I Tried to get some cleaning help but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |