Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I got given these when I was a rep at when I started , ten years ago and I 've still got half a dozen of these you know . |
| 2 | I said well I never used to get any anyway , and I said I used earn less than you ! |
| 3 | If I 'd done that if I 'd done that be worse you do n't use bad language but he 'd be he 's he 'd be |
| 4 | And in no time at all , I did n't have to ask for jobs , I 'd got more than I could do , you know and er I was still , very well taken care of in the shop . |
| 5 | I wish I 'd got some cos I could really do with a hot drink . |
| 6 | I 'd had more than enough of this place and its unnatural Matter ; now , perhaps , I could withdraw in safety . |
| 7 | I enjoyed doing this because it took people by surprise . |
| 8 | Erm no I did have more than that . |
| 9 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 10 | The amounts of exercise I did meant that I had to eat more than my father ! |
| 11 | I began broadcasting when I was twenty-one — it was what I wanted to do more than anything , if you do n't count an early ambition to be Hopalong Cassidy or Flash Gordon — and I do n't think I 've had many happier moments than acting in my first radio play . |
| 12 | He got de temp'ry permit which clears him to work for up to six month , but I hear you makin' him your general manager which got to last more than that , is n't it ? ’ |
| 13 | William L. Shirer , CBS correspondent in Berlin , noted in his diary that it was another hot weekend in a summer which had had more than its usual share of them . |
| 14 | Oh you saw er you 'd seen this because er you had friends all over , I mean , the fact that you went to did n't er tt get rid of all your friends . |
| 15 | that you 'd done that because I started it as well on the computer |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't tell me you 'd forgotten that as well ? ’ |
| 17 | They should have passed quickly — heaven knew she 'd had more than enough to keep her occupied . |
| 18 | The NEB itself seemed to imply more than prospecting might be going on : ‘ It has been suggested that some of the investigations might have been more extensive than might normally be expected . |
| 19 | He had tackled her about Pascoe and , although she had reacted much as he 'd expected , perhaps she would think it over and do what he advised . |
| 20 | Margaret had had a paid job with the BUF in the last few months of her membership but with Joyce 's departure from the movement she had lost that as well . |
| 21 | When Karen Stephens trained as a hairdresser she had to learn more than just the rudiments of cutting and blow-drying/ She also had to tackle the problems of learning how to lip-read in a mirror , as 20-year-old Karen has been deaf all her life . |
| 22 | She had had fewer than a dozen poems published in magazines — usually small , regional ones — during the twenty-five years she had been writing . |
| 23 | The Church — she had had more than enough of Brickley parochial Catholicism . |
| 24 | Jessamy decided she had had more than enough of this . |
| 25 | Valerie Jones made her excuses and left — she had had more than enough coffee . |
| 26 | How would you , if you had to do that if you do it the easy way , do n't do it the hard way , how would you do that ? |
| 27 | I did n't know you had to deliver that as well . |
| 28 | We tried to keep those as well , in memory of them , although we did not know which part of the year they had their twelve days . ’ |
| 29 | We seemed to get more than our fair share of bad weather on that tour apart from an idyllic three weeks in the West country . |
| 30 | Right well do n't have any papers on those but I thought we 'd got more than that . |