Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Falteringly , I sought to express these misgivings in my conclusions to a number of papers , conclusions that certainly brought no joy to my more optimistic colleagues in an emerging human ethology rooted firmly in the objective analysis of behaviour sequences and components . |
| 2 | WITH over 100 others from various parts of Britain , I planned to visit many sites of historical interest and biblical fame . |
| 3 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 4 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 5 | My training as an historian would allow me to save what could be saved and is why I got to work many years ago . |
| 6 | I was er er there was something that I got told many years ago that I |
| 7 | I tried to ignore both discomforts , but I was n't happy . |
| 8 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 9 | I tried to take some pictures but I scrapped them , they did n't come near to showing how I felt . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I tried to make some enquiries . ’ |
| 12 | I stopped seeing those flats years ago . |
| 13 | ‘ Apparently after Naylor had spent hours checking around my old haunts without success , he finally got lucky when someone recalled having many times seen my car parked outside this block of flats . |
| 14 | ‘ But I was cautious about it too as I 'd seen both sides — the periods of unemployment as well as the glossy side of my father being in something so popular like Howards ' Way . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd made some plans for Rainbow 's next tte — tte , scripted some frank revelations , an impassioned plea … |
| 16 | I 'd made some mistakes and as far as he was concerned the pottery could have been another . |
| 17 | Erm , so Jan had these butties , she said oh I made them lovingly last night , tuna , mayonnaise and onion and er she said trust Viv to ring today like when I 'd made these butties ! |
| 18 | I wish I 'd bought some chips — I 'm still pretty hungry . |
| 19 | You were being frightened off because you 'd started asking questions , but I was to be killed because I 'd found some answers . ’ |
| 20 | I 'd found some bunches of violets that were n't much good , but I thought I might sell them in the pub , or that some kind gent might treat me to a sandwich . |
| 21 | Now I , I 'd got all sorts of alternatives to buy . |
| 22 | I 'd got these figures down , but I had n't really got anything against them , he just quickly went through the percentages so yes . |
| 23 | Er , what 's it 's I was still on traction you see , and last week when I went I thought I 'd got these hives . |
| 24 | I 'd had that years , it really bugged me . |
| 25 | I wish I 'd had fewer children — if I 'd known the way prices would go up … |
| 26 | If I 'd had some castanets I 'd have clicked them in his face . |
| 27 | And if I 'd had any problems , he sorted them out . |
| 28 | If I 'd had any doubts about your competence you can be sure I would n't have left you to cope here . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Neither am I , querida , ’ he said slowly , ‘ but I wish that I 'd had those skills in Seville because it would have saved a lot of anguish . |
| 30 | I began to worry many years ago when I heard a young artist say at a Whitechapel Art Gallery discussion , ‘ I 'm in the painting business , not the explanation business ’ . |