Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How many of them lacked only the good fortune that saved you ? ’ |
| 2 | Anyway I made completely the wrong decision with her with her the first time . |
| 3 | Martens says : ‘ Of course I realised immediately the historic importance of the book and the show together . |
| 4 | I registered only the habitual glow of pleasurable comfort , but when I opened the envelope the reaction was one of electric shock . |
| 5 | overpower , you know , creep up on you , I , I 'd , it 'd just get the better of me Eric that 's why I got really the other one you see and that , I , I have n't come to any harm not having it , and erm I 've just got to get rid of this because it 's , I 'd do a lot more Eric if it were n't for the television , I know I 'll miss it when I get rid of it you see , it has been described as a plug-in drug |
| 6 | ‘ It was just that you seemed so interested in my being one of the survivors that I got quite the wrong initial impression . ’ |
| 7 | I experienced exactly the same difficulty with my Panasonic printer when , like William , I upgraded to Windows 3.1 and Word 2 . |
| 8 | I think I found just the tiny |
| 9 | I mentioned earlier the quick , slick jobs . |
| 10 | I ca , I ca I came home the other day and I could n't get into ! |
| 11 | Someone knocked early the next morning . |
| 12 | I Pressed home the usual arguments about duty and not fighting the war for the privilege of going to the cinema . |
| 13 | ‘ I returned alone the following season to play for Transvaal . |
| 14 | I swore only the other week . |
| 15 | So perhaps I needed just the one criminal , not two ; but I needed a reason as well . |
| 16 | Within an hour or so of our departure , I felt sure the proper chill had returned and would reign until the eight of us next dispelled it . |
| 17 | But erm I felt as though , I felt exactly the same , I felt I 'd just been asleep I just had my eyes shut and I felt opening one eye to have a look out and see what people were doing . |
| 18 | I felt just the same after my own mother 's death when my father mentioned her . |
| 19 | I felt much the same way about Posh Porky as Grandpa did about Mrs Salmon . |
| 20 | I stared into the mirror , expecting to see huge marks like red flowers blazing on my mouth where I had been kissed , but I looked just the same as I always did . |
| 21 | That evening , while the rest of the family watched Dixon of Dock Green , I gathered together the total ensemble and placed it upon my person . |
| 22 | I gathered together the various sawn-up and wrenched-apart pieces of putter and put them in a drawer . |
| 23 | so we set off going and I thought well the first ones were , did n't ask for a proof of doing it , just asked to do it |
| 24 | ‘ I thought maybe the second sight . |
| 25 | Ah that 's not so bad then , I thought perhaps the poor taxpayer was going to have to foot the bill . |
| 26 | We arrived quite late on our first night and , when I went downstairs the next morning the waitress showed us to our table and said : ‘ Good morning , I think you were arriving at eleven o'clock last night . ’ |
| 27 | anorexic , I thought my mum was anorexic when I went home the other day . |
| 28 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 29 | Oh I , when I , when I went there the next morning I had to tell all in front of the class and tell all the kids . |
| 30 | ‘ I did exactly the same thing last year in LA , ’ he revealed . |