Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am pleased to say that later in life , Ralph and I became very close friends . |
| 2 | But the problem I became very angry years ago with that because , I mean Irish Close and we had the three of you we found that she 'd , she just kept on telling us off . |
| 3 | And I expended so much energy making it beautiful for you ! ’ |
| 4 | Through the Second Son I asked as many questions as I thought sensible and it did n't sound like any malaria I had ever heard of . |
| 5 | Of course , I avoided so much work , going out to the bloody square on Tower Hill to gawk at the gore-drenched platform where the Great Ones of the land had their heads cut off . |
| 6 | I read only last week , for instance , that the N S P C C is suffering severely from the recession and higher running costs , and I 'm sure they 're not alone . |
| 7 | I mean I tried , tried to er er done it in my book about my again and I read about two pages and I fell asleep . |
| 8 | I did n't have any more whiskey as I needed to think , so I made even more tea and settled on the chair again by the fire , lit a cigarette and started to work my way through the file again . |
| 9 | During that time I made over 45 phone calls to vets , zoos , aquariums , fishkeepers , garden centres , and local authorities — all to no avail . |
| 10 | I made so much money , he went home grumblin' about someone fiddlin' his profits . |
| 11 | I made so many errors on my backhand trying to put too much into every shot , ’ she said . |
| 12 | I made so many mistakes about you . |
| 13 | the er children 's television show they they occasionally show a Newfoundland pulling a boat , well now that 's the film that I made about ten years ago and this Newfoundland pulled in the boat . |
| 14 | Living , as I did then , in the country seldom coming into London , I made only rare visits to the crammed and cramped little shop , and sought , as always , something that was out of print , lost , or printed the year before , . |
| 15 | I made very little money , just enough to run my car . |
| 16 | " So I made this little bite for you myself . " |
| 17 | Consider in this connection the point I made earlier that comprehension is necessarily incomplete and dependent on purpose . |
| 18 | ‘ I averaged about five queers a day . |
| 19 | If we have the same amount of cold weather this winter as we had last winter , we will more or less double the coverage of the benefit as a result of the changes that I announced earlier this year . |
| 20 | I realized then that nationalization , the great the great nationalization enterprise was simply state capitalism . |
| 21 | As for Italy , when I lived there 20 years ago it was common knowledge that many small businesses kept two sets of books : one for the authorities , the other for real . |
| 22 | ‘ I fought here 22 years ago , about the time this kid was about to get potty-trained , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ Not that it was much use , I 'm afraid ; I met so many people the faces were just a blur . ’ |
| 24 | Oh I got best bloody hand around ! |
| 25 | I mean I got pretty bad marks I find it difficult , find it very difficult . |
| 26 | Erm indeed I saw him , I saw Ronnie once in a hotel in er in Washington , this was the time it was n't actually the time he was shot cos I got away that time but the |
| 27 | When I explained , I got even less sympathy : ‘ Of all the stupid things . |
| 28 | Really is good gets your going but I got fucking wet feet ! |
| 29 | I got home that night full of excitement , a state which was quickly changed when my mother discovered that I was well and truly inundated with horse fleas . |
| 30 | Finally , speaking in a low voice , the boy said : ‘ There 's something you do n't know : dad told me this morning that he was in bed when I got home last night . ’ |