Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone loved him , but no-one realised he was special . |
| 2 | ( 187 ) I made him be quiet . |
| 3 | After leaving me outside a restaurant in the theatre district while he and his friends dined inside with Oliver Wendell Holmes or P.T. Barnum , I realized it was stupid to pander to his interest in aesthetics . |
| 4 | It was ten seconds or so before I realized I was supposed to be looking at the inside of the wooden door . |
| 5 | But I realized I was different from the Brazilians , and that was when I started to rediscover my own identity . ’ |
| 6 | But as soon as they got out I realized I was wrong . |
| 7 | I realized I was hungry — very — and accepted gladly . |
| 8 | I realized I was hungry and it did n't matter . |
| 9 | Suddenly I realised I was drunk and alone . |
| 10 | Said one : ‘ I lied about my birth but I realised I was different and always coming top of the class did not help . ’ |
| 11 | When the blood hit the roof of the car I realised it was serious , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ I realised you were right . |
| 13 | Then I realised she was concerned about his cheeks ; one was definitely redder than the other . |
| 14 | At least , all the other eighteen-year-olds I knew were like this , so I presumed it was normal . |
| 15 | If it 's money you want , I do n't have much with me , but what I got you 're welcome to . |
| 16 | It 's small wonder that this plateau has claimed lives , since in the weather that I experienced it 's impossible to have any sense of direction at all without the constant use of a compass and map . |
| 17 | I found it was stale so I replaced it and was about to make him a corned beef sandwich when Dad asked , ‘ Where 's Pete ? ’ |
| 18 | I found it was possible with Paradise to talk about individual and personal responsibility , something which if set in a contemporary context would have had a preachy feel about it . ’ |
| 19 | But then , when you did n't say anything at all , I found I was disappointed . ’ |
| 20 | It was just after I found I was pregnant , but I was so pleased for him , and for myself , I did not fret . |
| 21 | I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there . |
| 22 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 23 | I found I was unable to walk about . |
| 24 | We 'd also had a double income and shared paying the bills , and I found I was petrified of getting into debt . |
| 25 | The fit of this brace was firm and it felt comfortable , despite the fact that it is an off-the-shelf model ( its older brother , the CTI , is custom-fit ) and I found I was able to ski with some confidence in my otherwise highly unstable knee . |
| 26 | I found I was hungry after all , ’ she admitted . |
| 27 | When I visited the old housekeeper later that day , I found she was amazed by the news that I was going to marry the master . |
| 28 | On my first day of school my mum kept trying to wake me but I pretended I was asleep because I was so nervous , eventually mum knew that I was playing a trick . |
| 29 | I pretended I was happy , you can make yourself think anything , but I 'm not . ’ |
| 30 | Scouse was seated in his armchair reading a paperback — a Western — oblivious to the flies and mosquitoes , and as I approached it was obvious he was not bothered in any way about the smell . |