Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had offered the car to Hubert for the summer on condition that everyone promised never to stand on the running boards , because they were threatening to fall off . |
| 2 | I became intimately acquainted with some of those I met , and the lives and habits of many others naturally came under observation . |
| 3 | I became slightly unnerved by the frequent reassurances I was given by fundholders that they would n't do anything to ‘ upset the applecart ’ or disadvantage their colleagues ' patients . |
| 4 | Well yes , but let me say that I gave up going to auditions well before I became well known through The History Man , on television . |
| 5 | Having for ten years owned and managed one of the most successful econometric consultancy companies in the world ( then called Economic Models Limited ) , I became increasingly disabused of notions for controlling the flow of economic events against their natural movement . |
| 6 | As I began to serve more regularly I became more accepted amongst the older stalwarts of the service , my naval experience and general seamanship picked up on fishing craft and yachts standing me in good stead . |
| 7 | But as I became more acquainted with this set and stopped rushing from impossible passage to impossible passage , hoping against hope that at some point he would lose his balance and tumble like a second-rate trapeze artist off his swing , I was unwittingly dragged in to a more sinister , melancholic side to his playing . |
| 8 | There I became horribly fascinated by the place , the ‘ sick child ’ of Germany , with its decay , its division , its degradation . |
| 9 | D'yer know , I 'ad ter nag at 'im ter cast 'is vote before now . |
| 10 | Then I crept forward to look at Granny . |
| 11 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 12 | Many of the people I met also rely on loan companies and clubs who scour the poorest housing estates to find their neediest clients . |
| 13 | Though I still argued at parties , defending Sir Stafford Cripps and the Labour Government , no one I met now seemed to be interested : they listened to my opinions because I was pretty , their eyes on the cleavage of my dress . |
| 14 | The men and women I met often spoke of regret and loss — not a nostalgia for the past , those glazed memories that falsify the hard history of the working people by claiming that the past was better . |
| 15 | The architecture I sought never materialised in any of my compositions . |
| 16 | The architecture I sought never materialised in any of my compositions . |
| 17 | ‘ I cared only to escape from a life that was irksome and narrow , ’ said Taliesin , drinking his wine and reclining in the chair rather negligently . |
| 18 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 19 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 20 | Passenger John Keane , of Newmarket , Co Cork , said : ‘ I got up to go to the toilet at 6 o'clock and noticed this very strong , striking smell . |
| 21 | When I got up to go to bed , I saw Emily sitting quietly by the fire . |
| 22 | Anyway , at about half past two , I got up to go to the loo and my waters broke — just a trickle , but I knew what it was . |
| 23 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 24 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 25 | I ca n't I ca n't really think I 'll have to make a list out you know but er you know I got just think of anything that 's , you know as I say I 've got got some fo cat food will get some dry cat food yeah Oh I cou sta if I start thinking I 'll I 'll I 'll |
| 26 | The technical and objective manner lasted for about nine pages , then the eyes watered up again , the voice started strangulating , dirty great blobs welled up over my vision and I got seriously worried about my ability to perform this piece in a grown-up manner . |
| 27 | I got really excited about it and the process of working with him was really inspiring . |
| 28 | It 's just that I got so involved with what was going on that I completely forgot ! |
| 29 | I got so committed to the story down there , and I 've got so many friends among the Muslims , Serbs , Croats , peacekeepers and peacemakers that it would be very hard to let it go . |
| 30 | I suppose I got more bullied into it through me family really , to get off it , so I never really had the push to come off it . |