Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 2 | But I 'm not sure that 's right I just , I mean I spent three years |
| 3 | No , no messing , I mean I did that ages ago and I , i , it just arrived ! |
| 4 | I 'd love eating I had roast parsnips , brussel sprouts , carrots , and boiled and baked alaska , and it was really nice . |
| 5 | They 'd got ta be secure as you could imagine and er not easily picked , if you follow what I mean and er yes , made I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground . |
| 6 | No I did n't know I had these things . |
| 7 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 8 | If , if you buy a p a new pair of shoes and realize they 're faulty and you go back the next day and say I bought these shoes from you yesterday , I 've still got my receipt , I believe the shoes are faulty , can I have my money back ? |
| 9 | Since then I I 've like say I missed ten Fridays yeah ? |
| 10 | Your welcome letter found me at Launceston at which place I remained two days with Mr. Kerr , Captn Friend etc . |
| 11 | In the present set-up I was comforted to know I held good cards . |
| 12 | This is in contrast to HWIM which designed individual interfaces for each of its components . |
| 13 | The understated beauty of her face was framed by the dark curls of her shoulder-length hair — looks which attracted covert glances from other men in the restaurant . |
| 14 | A few thousand years ago , some violent explosive phenomenon occurred which hurled numerous bullets ( ‘ shrapnel ’ ) into the molecular cloud with velocities probably in excess of 400 km s -1 . |
| 15 | I did n't even know you had any dogs . ’ |
| 16 | Spencer turned to Craig and said challengingly , ‘ How do we know you found those books in my room ? |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't know she had two brothers . |
| 18 | Not only was he enjoying trying to blame the fire on Lisa , when surely he must know she had enough problems already , but that reference to ‘ poor , downtrodden Nigel ’ was almost shocking in its coldness . |
| 19 | In the later pharaonic centuries Egypt found itself sacked several times by Libyans , Ethiopians , Persians and Assyrians , before being conquered by the Greeks under Alexander in 332 BC . |
| 20 | I did n't know we 'd any chickens here |
| 21 | But for instance , say we had two shunters , I had two shunters . |
| 22 | Who were the Magi , what , who where they and I 'll give you an extra mark for each one of their names , I did n't know they had any names . |
| 23 | Oh , I did n't know they did other things ! |
| 24 | In my study , a white mother , previously married to a full-time skilled manual worker and now living on benefits , described her changed economic circumstances like this : |
| 25 | Now , for the first time , they found they needed large numbers of new people , with new skills , and they needed them quickly . |
| 26 | Police say they recorded 170 motorists driving through red traffic lights in York in just one month . |
| 27 | They say they paid premium prices to a firm with exclusive rights to sell holidays to the Olympics , but in return were given appalling accomodation . |
| 28 | How do we know he wrote those letters to Taplow ? ’ |
| 29 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 30 | Sadly he declined , saying in a charmingly self-deprecatory way that he doubted he had any views worth hearing . |