Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 2 | I got round just as |
| 3 | And he says : ‘ I got in only because Ian was hurt , but I have to put sentiment aside and think of Kevin Campbell . ’ |
| 4 | I still had to do homework when I got back home because nobody knew how quickly the floods would disappear so there was still the possibility of school tomorrow . |
| 5 | I sank down further until I could just see over the seat in front . |
| 6 | I came in yesterday cos I had to decorate it so that er get it tiled , and get it furnished and |
| 7 | I came down here because they were running out of work in Scotland initially . |
| 8 | The old lady said , ‘ I came back here because over fifty years ago this is where I first fell in love . ’ |
| 9 | I came out just before the baby was born . |
| 10 | ‘ I came out here because people were starting to ask where you were . |
| 11 | ‘ I came out faster than anyone 's ever left before . |
| 12 | The hand was soft , and I guess I hung on longer than the rules allowed . |
| 13 | I hung on there until , well my fifteenth birthday was in the July and it was November before I actually left . |
| 14 | Well at I worked I worked on then until I was se seventeen . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't want any tea Mum , ’ I called out quickly before she was down the stairs . |
| 16 | I laughed out loud when he went away with the supper-things . |
| 17 | Yeah it 's not , right , I went down there cos my |
| 18 | I went in alone because they do n't know you . |
| 19 | I dared not think how he would be if I went back then so I had to go on . |
| 20 | So I went along there cos I thought if she was painting the children will be frozen and nothing to sit on and no |
| 21 | I listened in even though I had heard most of it before and then we were told that anybody who had never been in a canoe before had to carry out capsize drills . |
| 22 | After the evening meal ( sweet salmon cooked in white wine ) , Benjamin and I stayed up long after the taproom emptied . |
| 23 | three-minute noise globule which sold out instantly when it was originally released , following extensive Peel play |
| 24 | This is a bit difficult , I think , to follow , and what Proust means perhaps becomes clearer in a story which he himself told on more than one occasion about the painter Turner . |
| 25 | Initially Foucault argues that the stasis of what he calls the ‘ Classical Order ’ gave way to ‘ History ’ — which took over both as the form of knowledge and as the fundamental mode of being for empirical phenomena . |
| 26 | None seemed to begrudge handing over the thousands of dollars in tolls payable in cash by each ship to the Canal Commission , which brought in more than £150 million in 1988 . |
| 27 | These included the end of direct involvement in electronic component distribution , the termination of the Volvo distribution contract and the takeover of the Swan National Motor Group , which brought in more than 20 dealerships . |
| 28 | She got up later than he did because she went to sleep later , tossing and sometimes weeping , and in the end usually fumbling her way downstairs to get herself a drink . |
| 29 | She got up shortly after , and looked at herself in the mirror . |
| 30 | They knew I lived somewhere in Chicago , so they called Mayor Daley , who found out exactly where I lived , and then they located Tim and hand-delivered first-class round-trip tickets and baggage vouchers from Chicago to Bangkok . |