Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As a child I kept an unending diary ; as a student in Louisiana I wrote some tv news scripts ( and damaged the teleprompt during a live transmission , which put an end to that little job ) ; back home I produced beautifully worded advertisements for a local free paper .
2 People I met never became friends , people never spoke in those days at all , in fact , I found that if you did try to speak they always ran away .
3 I got home to find Kenneth hunched over his desk engrossed in a pile of newly purchased books on the subject of lymphoma and a medical dictionary to help him understand the terminology .
4 A little awkwardly she explained , ‘ I was going to wait until I got home to tell Paul that our engagement was a mistake .
5 The Pentland Firth and Scapa Flow , Lerwick and Sullom Voe were soon as familiar as the south coast and the Solent had become in the past , but familiarity would never make us treat these places with anything but respect and I tried never to take chances .
6 Then I moved BOTH point cam into position on the left side .
7 ‘ The way I behaved certainly gave rise to a bit of drama , from time to time .
8 The artist had fussed around while the thing was being loaded on my ship , babbling about how important it was and how delicate it was and so on , until I 'd just stopped listening .
9 Coincidentally I 'd just told Malcolm that I was a bass player — although at this point I was only mucking around by myself at home — so Malcolm told them .
10 And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already .
11 I 'd just left school .
12 At that point I 'd just left St Martin 's .
13 I 'd just finished treatment for a drug problem and Paul was getting over valium addiction .
14 On that particular day I I was coming home from work and it were quarter to nine , I 'd just finished work .
15 I 'd just won Wimbledon and wanted a lot of action , but there was nothing and nobody .
16 I only stopped working frenziedly hour after hour after I met the English boy I 'd just thrown water over moments before .
17 Xanthe spread out the soft folds of her skirt and looked at them as Miranda quickly splashed water into her armpits , round her neck , on her face , muttering , ‘ I wish I 'd just had time to wash my hair . ’
18 I 'd momentarily lost sight of what a fast worker you are . ’
19 By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry .
20 I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn .
21 But I was glad that I 'd finally had sex — it was a way of proving that my parents and Uncle Joe had n't destroyed my life .
22 I 'd also recorded Neil Kinnock 's speech after his count and I managed to freeze the frame on the exact moment when she almost cried as he paid tribute to his wife for her dignity under the onslaught of the tabloid press .
23 I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise .
24 I 'd sent tapes to Radio One and I 'd also spent time devising quizzes that I thought would be better than the ones they were doing .
25 However , I knew at least a couple of players because I 'd caddied for Roger Fidler in the 1977 British Open while I was still an assistant , and I 'd also carried Florentina Melina 's bag .
26 I suppose I 'd best ring Scottie and see if he wants me to process something about a picture then ?
27 ‘ Yes , well , I 'd already crossed Belgravia off the list , ’ Preston confessed .
28 So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing
29 I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds .
30 I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds .
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