Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I got any money . |
| 2 | I do not think I deserved this sort of treatment . |
| 3 | I do n't think I had any blood on my hands , for I had held her ankles just below the silver bracelets . |
| 4 | I do n't think I had any celery , I had , I had put in whatever I had in the house and sort of various herbs and spices and things . |
| 5 | ‘ Actually , I did n't think I made much impression on her . |
| 6 | I realised I wanted another guitar player . |
| 7 | I mean I thought that migration was the er , would be the cure of all ills , in that , you know , we 've got wage differentials here in this , in this hypothetical economy . |
| 8 | I mean I I really could of a I mean I hired that ladder just to do about six foot either side . |
| 9 | I mean I had that go with her . |
| 10 | As it was , I mean I found another chocolate gateau under those Christmas tree cakes . |
| 11 | No , no messing , I mean I did that ages ago and I , i , it just arrived ! |
| 12 | I did n't even know I had any kind of title until I went to prep school when I started to get these letters saying : ‘ The Honourable Charles ’ . |
| 13 | But the fact is , at that point , I did n't even know I had any information to feed anybody . |
| 14 | No I did n't know I had these things . |
| 15 | But I say I went all day without nothing to eat bloody starved . |
| 16 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 17 | right , you go upstairs , pick up the most expensive article they 've got and then you go downstairs to the customer relations department and say I bought this article yesterday and say , and , and I 'm afraid |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 20 | When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’ |
| 21 | June , I did n't know you felt that way . |
| 22 | I did n't even know you had any dogs . ’ |
| 23 | Spencer turned to Craig and said challengingly , ‘ How do we know you found those books in my room ? |
| 24 | Clearly she had n't wanted Hugh to know she owned any property in her native country , but why conceal such an important fact ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | When Business Age magazine published their list of the richest women in Britain this week , they left Diana 's name off it — because they did n't know she had any dosh of her own . |
| 27 | I did n't know she had this cold and she 'd had it for ten |
| 28 | But in Tom 's room , when Peter had poured the wine into two mugs and an inch into a glass for her and she had tasted it , she found she liked this wine that had a taste of how elderflowers smell , reversed her decision and asked him to do as he had offered and fill her glass . |
| 29 | ‘ I only want to know who slashed that picture if you did n't . ’ |
| 30 | It is difficult to establish who published that document . |