Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , as no-one 'ad bought any of me violets or treated me to a sandwich , and me near dyin' of starvation , with no job and no lodgings , well , I was so desperate I went up and grabbed the wallet , which Blackbeard was wavin' about at Dan Pearson . |
| 2 | ‘ No , I 'ad to give half of it back , ’ breathed Dolly . |
| 3 | After all , she thought , how can I forget the day I agreed to enslave most of Europe ? |
| 4 | Even upon discovering the full facts of life , my father 's role in my conception , I failed to shift some of my guilt onto him . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , I got to know many of the leading linguists of the subsequent generation : , , , all passed through the MIT graduate school at that time . |
| 6 | Er but she 's a member and we went there for lunch and it was the ideal place , you know , cos there were n't any , many people around and so we had quite a nice lunch and erm whilst we were there we then had a drink in er in the bar and erm her the , the secretary of the club , a lady , came to talk to Barbara and she mentioned that she 'd seen her on Blind Date you see , and so I got to know more by listening to them two speaking er and er that 's where I learnt about er that . |
| 7 | It occurred to me , when I got to know some of these families , that they really might believe that their position on the hill placed them nearer to heaven than the less privileged folk below . |
| 8 | At least I got to know some of the background to the paintings ; the symbolism and the profundity of meaning . |
| 9 | During my visit to Proctor and Gamble I expected to spend most of my time listening to smart women complain about having their key strokes counted . |
| 10 | I tried to explain that to the Sister . |
| 11 | I tried telling some of the teachers that . |
| 12 | I tried missing some of these parades , but one day I was summoned to the local headquarters of the organization in Parma where a rather fat , forbidding woman of high rank , dressed in Fascist uniform , told me that if I missed any more I would be suspended from school . |
| 13 | This evening I tried to read some of Alcestis , but it was n't the same . |
| 14 | ‘ I tried to bring this to the notice of the police and the Army but they did not want to know . |
| 15 | And she said , I tried to get that father- in-law there , she says , and I tried to get that for my daughter and I could n't find , could n't get it . |
| 16 | I tried to get most of my work done today so that I would not have so much to do on the weekend . |
| 17 | I tried to get most of them out . |
| 18 | We left the smell of the pub behind , and I tried to get some of the fresh air through my head . |
| 19 | I tried to get some of the Blu-Tak off . |
| 20 | I tried to absorb some of Ryan 's confidence . |
| 21 | When I tried to raise some of the education issues with the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) , he refused to let me intervene . |
| 22 | Yeah , I tried melt half of it . |
| 23 | so he said I did , I tried to make some in microwave and he says it turned out like sludge |
| 24 | I tried to help some of those that were hurt but some of them had dreadful injuries . |
| 25 | Then someone dragged me along to learn meditation , which I found did most of the things advertised for it — you feel more focused and it reduces the interminable mental chatter that stops you getting to sleep at night . |
| 26 | We finished the bottle of Bollinger and I promised to share another with Toby on Friday . |
| 27 | I seemed to spend much of my time assisting the chef and painting but this did nothing to damp my enthusiasm . |
| 28 | ‘ Nothing was what I seemed to get most of . ’ |
| 29 | I 'd heard all about Group from Rosemary and it did n't seem to be my sort of place . |
| 30 | I 'd heard most of the words that ‘ Jaz ’ used to express his feelings at his misfortune ; the Head 's wife had n't , apparently , since ‘ Jaz ’ was immediately dragged off to the Head 's office to ‘ explain himself ’ . |