Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Though I still argued at parties , defending Sir Stafford Cripps and the Labour Government , no one I met now seemed to be interested : they listened to my opinions because I was pretty , their eyes on the cleavage of my dress . |
2 | The men and women I met often spoke of regret and loss — not a nostalgia for the past , those glazed memories that falsify the hard history of the working people by claiming that the past was better . |
3 | The architecture I sought never materialised in any of my compositions . |
4 | The architecture I sought never materialised in any of my compositions . |
5 | ‘ I used ter sit at me front door when the weavver was good , an' when it was cold I used ter lay in bed till dinner-time . |
6 | I learnt this lesson some years ago when the soldier to whom I referred earlier came to Christ . |
7 | It was wet on the ground , + I slipped , but unfortunately the same bench that I mentioned previously happened to be in my way again . |
8 | Yes I hope so appeared to be . |
9 | These characters I create never existed outside my own mind ’ . |
10 | ‘ I feel suddenly invigorated beyond measure , ’ he said with a grin . |
11 | I felt strangely repelled at the thought of eating meat . |
12 | I felt really intimidated by him . |
13 | And my father I think just went to school in the Wintertime . |
14 | Erm he started his life er in Vietnam in the violence of Vietnam , and had therefore a lot of violence in his early life , which I think really stayed with him , but when he did join the Army , he was very proud to be doing so , and very proud to be wanting to be part of Britain and serving Britain in whatever way he could . |
15 | All I said simply slid off the shell into which he retreated when confronted by words he did not want to hear . |
16 | And she got herself ready for bed and you know just went to bed by herself . |
17 | It has sometimes been suggested that if you feel easily intimidated by an interviewer , and therefore are paralysed by nerves , you should imagine him ? her in a ludicrous situation , such as sitting in the Albert Hall with no clothes on . |
18 | And erm she 's just cooking the meal and she went upstairs went into her son 's bedroom , got his belt and hung herself and her children coming back from school and find that . |
19 | Some time later , as she lay quietly enfolded in his arms , she felt him gently brushing the damp hair from her forehead . |
20 | It was such gently acid mockery , she felt physically flayed under that worldly amusement . |
21 | She felt suddenly dirtied by death , ashamed of the knowledge she had gained when she witnessed the cessation of breathing that marked the end of her parents ' lives , sad and sullied by the separations she had lived through . |
22 | We can not know — and she was by this time fifty-eight years old to Jack 's thirty-three — whether she felt personally slighted by the change . |
23 | ‘ I know lots of places , ’ she retorted then glared at Doyle before striding out of the bar . |
24 | ‘ My pleasure , ’ she retorted then walked to the door where she paused to look back at him . |
25 | She paused then stared at Rachel . |
26 | She paused then smiled at Rachel . |
27 | But it 's rather surprising that is n't it cos er a a lot of these er songs that you sing actually came from America . |
28 | The house that you see behind belonged to Dr. Sinclair , organist of Hereford Cathedral and one of Elgar 's best friends , and he had a dog called Dan , who was quite a character in his own right . |
29 | ‘ You do what you want , Mike , ’ she snapped then got to her feet and strode to the door . |
30 | The project which we report here came into being because of this concern ; it was one of several recent attempts , all part of the same climate of interest , to sustain some highly dependent old people in non-institutional settings . |