Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got up to get some water and went to the window . |
| 2 | This morning I woke up to discover another major British engineering company expected to require 5,000 fewer workers . |
| 3 | I reckon hed kick someones bollox if someone came up to do that to him . |
| 4 | I came in to do some work — I could n't sleep . |
| 5 | At the far end , once again my , detector gave a nice small signal , quite different from the copper halfpennies , and as I dug down to retrieve this I had some idea in mind that this might be a hammered . |
| 6 | Kathleen offered me the use of her office telephone and so , one morning , I settled down to make some enquiries . |
| 7 | He continues : ‘ I started off putting all sorts of things into the first rough attempts , birds in one , Greek columns in another , Victorian oil lamps ; I even tried buildings and finally helicopters and an aeroplane , but gradually came to see that the designs were hopelessly confused . ’ |
| 8 | I went on to say that local authority support for public libraries which simply put books with a homosexual theme on to their shelves would not constitute promotion of homosexuality . |
| 9 | With two of my first graduate students to work on the chick , I went on to explore some of the more detailed biochemistry of these changes . |
| 10 | Me , I I mean , I 've done I 've done no work today because I went out to collect some stuff of a friend this morning and by the time I came in it was quarter past ten and I 'd gone out at ten to nine so I 'd missed the schools |
| 11 | So I went out to get some fish and chips and they called me NIGGGGGAH ! ’ |
| 12 | I did n't expect to see her again until late on Monday — I went off to do some walking for the weekend and was taking an extra day . |
| 13 | ‘ I went off to get another one and when I got back to the phone she said ‘ have you got it ? ’ and I thought she meant the new biro , so I said yes and she said goodbye and hung up . ’ |
| 14 | But when I went back to have another look they 'd been changed . |
| 15 | I kept on saying these pictures are a bit too bright . |
| 16 | And I carried on doing that for quite a number of years and I managed to be voted onto the Edinburgh committee . |
| 17 | I stayed on to do some cooking in readiness for them . |
| 18 | I want it to kind of and of course I ended up buying more stuff ! |
| 19 | In any event , I ended up feeling much more in control . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I ended up spending all night watching porn videos with them in Hounslow , ’ she trilled . |
| 21 | Actually , when I first bought it , I did n't like the amount of top-end in the sound so I used to roll the tone control way back and I ended up finding all these different tones in the guitar . |
| 22 | The anger this sparked in the population and the community organizations which sprang up to help those without homes were crucial in the build-up to insurrection . |
| 23 | He was working for Westminster council , an authority which went out to tender some time ago . |
| 24 | If you got up to fetch another cup of tea or coffee , you were liable to find that your plate had been cleaned out while you had been away . |
| 25 | ‘ She wandered off to find some pine cones , ’ Billy replied , and stretched his tall skinny frame . |
| 26 | Politicians , planners and architects — who teamed up to create many an urban disaster area — are now united in the view that there is something seriously wrong with British cities . |
| 27 | The fact that a wealth tax bore heavily on someone who turned out to lose all his capital would not on an ex ante basis be regarded as indicating a regressive impact , but in terms of measured income ( allowing for the loss ) it might appear that way . |
| 28 | Instead , around 35 employees decided to set up their own communications group , Citigate , which itself went on to acquire several subsidiaries encompassing advertising and design . |
| 29 | The nine-race card at Haydock is strong on quantity but lacks runners of the class of Old Vic , the winner of the Whitebeam Maiden Stakes by six lengths last year who went on to take this year 's Irish Derby and its French equivalent . |
| 30 | She went on to say that |