Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | I decided we better call you chief foreman stevedore , and that 's what they call me , chief foreman , so that 's what they call 'em today , chief foreman stevedore . |
2 | I was upstairs bleeding the radiators , all air hisssss air whooshing out everywhere I thought I better check to see when I come in , that thing was full of water ! |
3 | I say , the reason I think I had bad dreams , recently , in the last sort of three nights , is because they 're the three nights I went swimming early , so I thought I better go to bed early . |
4 | Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ? |
5 | I were looking for an alarm clock , I thought I better have a new one else I 'm gon na start sleeping in for work . |
6 | The doctors say he might go off sudden-like , so I thought I better warn you . ’ |
7 | I thought I better call and see how you were doing |
8 | I thought I better call and see how you were doing , now we know |
9 | It was a charge that was to dog us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections , and which did us more damage than any other health issue . |
10 | She thought she better buy not only her way into heaven but that of all her husband and relations as well . |
11 | Accounts of his sexual prowess have been dismissed by sceptics , but those who knew him better maintain that he was able to exercise extraordinary self-control when making love , so that sex several times a day with different women was perfectly feasible . |
12 | Who did you principally deal with in the Spanish government back in 1988 ? |
13 | Okay , now anybody apart from the one , who did you actually divert to by the way ? |
14 | So you did you just have cows or did you have any other animals ? |
15 | Leaks were a constant hazard of the first 1979–83 Thatcher Government and none did us more damage than this . |
16 | We do n't know why it was this little sort of dip , that reproduces you know , the configuration of it but why it was there , we do n't know , we thought we better put it back since it was there . |
17 | I think they 've filled it in yeah and they did it quite smooth , pity they did n't do this one as well while they were I did n't quite understand it |
18 | He was playing Puck and when I went to see the Company doing it well they had a completely different way of doing it , they wo they did it really like er a dec you know the the mechanical play , I do n't know if you know A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
19 | He was playing Puck and when I went to see the Company doing it well they had a completely different way of doing it , they wo they did it really like er a dec you know the the mechanical play , I do n't know if you know A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
20 | white rails round them did you always have those rails ? |
21 | Well I said I 'll go with you but he did he eventually go ? |
22 | I do n't really think it did us any harm . |
23 | What 'd he ever do to ya ? |
24 | so what did we just say for you ? |
25 | Cos wha what did we actually tell them in ours ? |
26 | ‘ What did they supposedly die of ? ’ |
27 | He 'd been exactly the same once before when he 'd found out that Pete had seen Last Tango in Paris ( ‘ Yeah , but what did they actually do ? ’ ) and now , as then , Pete had taken care to fine-tune Ted 's frustration to the point of obsession . |
28 | I was that busy trying to convince him that he had to er go to doctors cos I says what did they actually do ? |
29 | What did they actually make at Bradley 's during the war years ? |
30 | But what did they really get out of it ? |