Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the back , sometimes out of sight of the others , I became engrossed in my own problems . |
| 2 | I became acquainted with her brother Pavel Sergeevich Popov , a university professor . |
| 3 | These are the questions which I sought to answer through my fieldwork which began in November , 1981 , as part of two research projects based at the University of York . |
| 4 | The scene was so exciting that I failed to sympathise with my grey-faced guest who returned with tales of third world conditions in the gents . |
| 5 | ‘ I assume you made it worth her while in other ways , but obviously I failed to discover from her own fair lips how much you thought she was worth , and I 'm damned sure you wo n't admit how much you 've paid over the odds for her favours . ’ |
| 6 | Then he said : ‘ Actually , as I suppose you know , I got rid of my first wife on to Walter . ’ |
| 7 | Yeah , but that goes , that goes in the lit file , so I got rid of my er with the thirty five I managed to get rid of erm |
| 8 | Since then my ( now ex- ) girlfriend was really good mates with the two of them cos she was in their year ( Yes I know I 'm a paedophile ) so that was how I got to go to their 18th birthday parties and Al 's leaving do . |
| 9 | I got evicted from my last place I was at . |
| 10 | D' ya know , I got weighed on my scales other day , and I thought , I were eleven stone again . |
| 11 | I made a mental note to make sure I got put on his side . |
| 12 | Certainly the people I got to know during my fifteen months on the sports circuit for the Sunday Correspondent readily confirmed my own impression that McIlvanney is the best in the business . |
| 13 | I got picked for my maths yesterday . |
| 14 | I remember that it could whack a fist-sized stone well over the creek and twenty metres or more into the undulating ground on the mainland , and once I got keyed into its natural rhythm I could send off a shot every two seconds . |
| 15 | When I shouted to enquire about his successful bait all he said was : Anything I put on . |
| 16 | When Paul Sayer won a literary prize for a grimly realistic first novel , The Comforts of Madness ( 1988 ) , in which an insane narrator never speaks , he confessed that it was an imitation of Beckett 's Malone Dies ( 1956 ) : ‘ I could see how he avoided telling about the main thing : that 's something I tried to do in my book , ’ though it does not read like Beckett . |
| 17 | I tried to talk to her father … by the poolhouse . |
| 18 | I munched away at my apple and toyed with a piece of cheese as I tried to concentrate on their views on Karl Marx . |
| 19 | After writing about fifty scientific papers on the subject I decided to reach a wider audience and moved into television , where week after week I tried to get across my fascination for the animal world . |
| 20 | All of this was hidden behind the ‘ normal ’ lifestyle that I tried to project to my family and friends , ’ days Paula Farrance , 28 , from St Albans . |
| 21 | I tried to focus on my interior but there was nothing to focus on : just space , disappearing into further emptiness . |
| 22 | I then filled in a little with some alchemilla flower sprays and some very pretty reddish-grey fronds of grass which I found growing on our compost heap ! |
| 23 | This real doctor was a much younger man than the Doctor Bailey I created to live in his old house . |
| 24 | When the Colonel was alive , he always took me shooting with him , and I helped look after his guns . |
| 25 | ‘ And to Cousin Flo , who I promised to mention in my will … |
| 26 | I stopped eating on my return from the summer camp mentioned earlier . |
| 27 | I 'd dressed in my long dress , eaten breakfast bedu fashion , discussed the children 's health with the Sheikha over coffee — the Youngest Son had had far too many headaches and his usual teasing and joking had n't been seen for days . |
| 28 | They made no effort to withdraw , or temper their gaze or remarks , and I struggled to maintain the sort of meditational dispassion which I 'd observed in my cat on its box . |
| 29 | People said I 'd gone off my head . |
| 30 | And e what I 'd put on what I 'd said to her Erm I think I 'd put on here , you know , Re refer to section five on on of the brainstorm list , and she 'd all she 'd typed in is , Where is section five of the brainstorm list , I could n't could n't find . |