Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | no , very annoying that , I mean that bloke going backwards and forwards is bad enough but |
| 2 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 3 | and I tried all weekend trying to get only there from five to seven , and I got him after five o'clock on Tuesday |
| 4 | The workshop classes were a mixture of all grades of academy , and it was here that I found common ground absorbing my trade instruction ; and happily in this field I was able not to be as conspicuous as I was at school . |
| 5 | I found this section plodding and lacking in any positive sense of purpose , musical or textual . |
| 6 | On more than one occasion I caught senior management using our symbolic disorder to dress down young constables . |
| 7 | I recollect one girl putting on dark glasses as a disguise in the hope that she would be luckier than Oliver Twist . |
| 8 | I want that bird flying in a couple of weeks or less . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I want this prison running perfectly for these visitors , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Pete has never touched my hair in my life and there was some downstairs in that bathroom downstairs and I thought hey that looks a bit of fun , I 'll have a go at that and erm and I was outside and I took my hair down , I 'd just washed it and I said oh look , you know , I used this hair thickening shampoo do you think it looks thicker , as a joke , and he goes yeah it does actually , yeah it really does . |
| 11 | ‘ If ever I catch another man looking at me with that look which means ‘ You 're mine , all mine ’ I shall kill him , because I 'm not his all his at all . |
| 12 | I made a coconut cake but er er I put some coconut icing on it pink . |
| 13 | During the late afternoon I received another call summoning a further Cabinet meeting at 7.30 p.m . |
| 14 | After making five payments I received another card demanding higher payments and for them to be paid in four instalments . |
| 15 | Nor do I spend much time listening to jazz . |
| 16 | I dreaded that file landing on my desk , and yet to make clear how much I wished to avoid it would … |
| 17 | Do n't get me wrong , I like flashy bass playing and it would be wrong for me to sound as if I did n't approve ; it 's just that these kind of situations are always a trade-off . |
| 18 | Do n't let's go there again though , cos I spent all day making coffee . |
| 19 | I NEVER did find Mr Wright although , following the instructions I received at my briefing , I spent some time looking for him . |
| 20 | ‘ As I told you , I spent some time writing letters and when I 'd finished I thought it would be pleasant to get some fresh air so I went out and posted them — in the box outside the main post office — ’ |
| 21 | It is a particularly painful spot to be kicked and I spent some time hopping round the byre and cursing in a fervent whisper . |
| 22 | After finishing the course in June , I spent some time travelling within Eastern Europe and then spent two months in Austria to improve my German . |
| 23 | We used to have House matches at the Hurlingham track , and I remember one afternoon competing in the 100 , 200 and 400 metres and the three jumps — high , long and triple . |
| 24 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 25 | All but two of them had been abused and I remember one girl saying to me , ‘ By the time I was nine I knew what it was all about . ’ |
| 26 | I remember one teacher retiring several years ago in Nottingham said to me er he says I 'm sticking with the Nationwide , me . |
| 27 | You 'd expect about ta , thanks you used to think cor christ and then I , I mean all the bits I did for them and I remember one woman getting up saying come on Flo come and stretch and she said who are you ? |
| 28 | And I always remember , now whether this is true I would n't know , and I do n't think I 've ever spoke about this before but I , thinking about it just now , it 's just struck me , I remember one chap saying , Well now if we put some barbed wire across the road about two foot high , he said , No horse will jump over barbed wire , now I do n't know I do n't suppose that 's true I do n't think it is but this chap said that . |
| 29 | And but anyway , I remember this inquiry coming in . |
| 30 | Then I remember another object hitting my collegaue . |