Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The letter I got back brought tears to my eyes , ’ he says . |
| 2 | I phoned up put Maggie on t' phone , told her sa tell her what this bloke had said and , they said , just a minute , that they 'll get in touch wi insurance and phone us back . |
| 3 | I wandered off to find Jack Mason and my parents and saw Toby , who was obviously heading for the Press tent , the conference with the winner , and several post-tournament drinks . |
| 4 | And I stopped up to watch snooker and it went on until after twelve |
| 5 | ‘ I came up to visit Johanna in Syon and made enquiries . |
| 6 | You know if I came in to see Kim , your room , we 'd never get anything done . |
| 7 | I turned around to see Mr Lu playing what I thought was his third shot . |
| 8 | I turned back to find Yvonne 's grinning face looking past me in the same direction . |
| 9 | And then I , then I popped down to see James . |
| 10 | Last Sunday I popped in to see Peter Sam on the Talyllyn Railway , writes JAKE RAYMOND . |
| 11 | ‘ I stormed round to see Mike Slide — he 's the new head of Topical Features — and asked him outright if it was true . |
| 12 | So , as my whiskers grew , I settled down to watch France beat Brazil in an exciting football match , and enjoy one channel entirely devoted to children , where understanding was universal despite the language . |
| 13 | Since Karen Parsons was denied me , I resorted to polishing up my French with Thérèse Racquin , but the moment I settled down to read Lynn would flop down near me and solicit my views on waste recycling or food additives . |
| 14 | I called in to see Dad before coming here and while I was there an insurance investigator called Tom O'Neill came to see him . |
| 15 | So as we were going along she was just going into the paper shop and she was on her way up to the one o'clock bus , so I called in to see Jackie and had a coffee and then we come home . |
| 16 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 17 | You just take one , I just my pal had a bad or something and she was prescribed er a se , a certain kind of sleeping tablet , Tamazapam and just I started in to say amounts up to twenty five at the end of the , do you know what I mean ? |
| 18 | I started off playing mid-field er and I was switched to full-back by Billy Bremner at Doncaster half way through this season , and I been playing full-back since like . |
| 19 | I looked round to see Jamie . |
| 20 | I looked round to find Karen standing in the centre of a group of businessmen who were eyeing her up and down in a blatantly sexual way . |
| 21 | A shadow fell across my sunny table and I looked up to find Kenneth who 'd been on a recce of the hospital , so after a lunch of ribs , skins , wings and blueberry pie , he was able to lead me through the appropriate doors of the vast , multi-entranced building . |
| 22 | From there I looked back to see Xanthe begin to talk to Mrs Young , at first slowly , with brakes on , and then faster and faster , until all the unhappiness was pouring out like a flood . |
| 23 | I went round to see Scotty Moore in Nashville . |
| 24 | We went in the Gra Grand just done the lounge at the Grand and when we had our first car and I went round to see mother and I said come on , we 'll go up to the , take you up to the Grand and have a drink . |
| 25 | that 's not bad and I went round to see Helen to see if she wanted this one for baby Anna but she said this one there is another one in there , erm |
| 26 | Although I was upset by the old lady 's words , I followed her advice , and in the weeks before the wedding I went on teaching Adèle as usual . |
| 27 | So , having no more to discuss on that topic , I went on to ask Sylvia if she could think of a place in her own home where she felt uneasy if the door was shut . |
| 28 | I went on asking questions . |
| 29 | Still pleased as punch from selling an exploding lager can , I went on to boost sales of an elephant 's trunk nose design and a Woody Allen mask but I did n't ask what the young man wanted THAT for . |
| 30 | Then I was able to er go for my own self , you know and er I went on doing locks , one thing and another , best I could and all that sort of thing and I worked for a , a bloke what was in there er be a little bloke but he was the best locksmith in the shop and I went to help him and er he used to give me all the to do and this and that and the other . |