Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supposing one of them got carried away and hit the old boy too hard . |
| 2 | I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal . |
| 3 | I had not even finished writing this before I got carried away and bought myself another Christmas present — a Synodontis angelicus . |
| 4 | I 'd heard somewhere that you ca n't stop it after the end of the third month . |
| 5 | It was time to retire , to return to England-land , to the genteel sheltered accommodation I 'd fled more than a decade earlier . |
| 6 | Yet if I 'd known then that the cup was Undry … |
| 7 | I only wish I 'd known before that he was so ill . |
| 8 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 9 | Erm Foxes in the Garden with the R S P C A photos I had rejected yesterday as well , so that was a good day . |
| 10 | One beautiful face in a shop brought into my mind an undraped statue I had seen somewhere and we blushed together . |
| 11 | I had grown more and more tired , energy seeped away and I had begun to sweat at night . |
| 12 | I had become more and more interested in the business world , going back to work at the bank in Newcastle during my vacations , so I was looking for a general business career . ’ |
| 13 | I started searching around the shower area as I had planned earlier and immediately heard a signal indicating a quarter-sized coin , 3in down . |
| 14 | Apart from that , I had said more or less what I wanted to say in a way that I thought Belinda could not fail to admire . |
| 15 | I was convinced I had done badly and was very depressed when during the practical exam university lecturers came around to talk to other people but not to me . |
| 16 | Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river . |
| 17 | For the first time in all my life I had done right because I wanted to do right . |
| 18 | I concluded that I had done enough and was getting ready to sidle away when a servant pushed a large bucket of water into my hands and I realised that , under Santerre 's direction , a human chain had been formed . |
| 19 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 20 | Among others there was the Scottish advocate ( and future QC and Conservative MP ) Nicholas Fairbairn , a sartorial dandy with a razor-sharp mind whom I had met once or twice in the Borders . |
| 21 | A nice man I had met more than once before . |
| 22 | When Eritrea achieved de facto independence last year , 80 cars went from DC to New Jersey to the home of the veteran Eritrean labour leader Woldeab Wolde Mariam , whom I had met more than 20 years ago in exile in Aden , and brought him to the Washington community church , Saint Selassie . |
| 23 | The last eight miles had been the worst up to that point , and yet I had gone faster than ever before . |
| 24 | I felt so sad but if I had gone there and seen her , how would I have felt ? |
| 25 | Most attention concentrated on the last sentence of my statement which I had inserted just before I stood up in the House of Commons : |
| 26 | I insisted on taking the two till four in the morning watch , as I had read somewhere that this is the time when one is at one 's lowest ebb , and therefore when death is most likely to occur . |
| 27 | And I had read enough and seen enough from other bits of our work , to feel that a lot of that was to do with coordination of services , or with the fact that services were not packaged to meet individuals ' needs . |
| 28 | Because of a vague feeling of loyalty , a need to repay someone or something who had seemed to walk with me through the burning fiery furnace of my husband 's last illness , I had started now and then to go to church . |
| 29 | The soldiers had four camels , but were hopelessly incompetent at loading them and I had got more and more exasperated at the delay . |
| 30 | I did my best not to give away anything of my exasperation on discovering that a task I had thought all but behind me was in fact still there unassaulted before me . |