Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of them became quite well known . |
| 2 | Children whose parents set firm limits for them grow up better adjusted , with greater self-esteem , than those who are allowed to get away with behaving any way they like . |
| 3 | The act of dispensing with them has not always met with common assent nor has it always been smooth — the English historical landscape is scattered with periods of violence and upheaval — but once the dispensing process is achieved , it has largely been accepted . |
| 4 | Beginning by a fantastic attempt to construct pedigrees where sons were their own fathers , I became gradually so involved that I remember wondering if God the Father were in truth only the child that grew up into Jesus Christ . |
| 5 | ‘ I think what I am trying to explain to you , ’ she said , ‘ is that over the years I became so completely cowed and dominated by this monster of an aunt that when she gave me an order , no matter what it was , I obeyed it instantly . |
| 6 | You see I 've not really got the same trouble with English , because well English is a written thing is n't it , |
| 7 | I mean really severely handicapped so they really need sort of helpers with them for you know at least fifty percent of the day or something . |
| 8 | ‘ I got pretty badly worked . |
| 9 | I I got really really fed up . |
| 10 | Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went . |
| 11 | the dining chairs , I 've had everything out at least I have n't cleaned the windows but , I was half way through , well I was almost finished , I 'd just just done the stairs though and Bernie came ! |
| 12 | And I 'd just about begun to believe him . |
| 13 | I 'd just about got a speech arranged when you announced that the afternoon had been no big deal ! ’ |
| 14 | I 'm expecting like a lights or something are flashing so I got the off the jet wash and I 'd just about got to the where I started again it 's gone bib bib bib bib bib is that it ? |
| 15 | My downhill skiing was a little rusty to say the least , but a few too many moons ago I 'd just about cracked parallel turns , and I felt in need of a brush up . |
| 16 | A sort of chess-game with death I 'd rather unexpectedly won . |
| 17 | I 'd pretty much made up my mind that they had to be forced into action , but it was such a difficult decision . |
| 18 | My understanding of the case was that I 'd not yet found a remedy to cover the fibroid as well as everything else so I chose Phosphorus LM1 from the rubric bleeding fibroids since it covered her fears and complemented the Arsenicum . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd not even seen Leanne for about four months and then she was with him , but I got half my arm blown away . ’ |
| 20 | I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's . |
| 21 | I 'd long since given up trying to get her not to call me that . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , all right , so I thought the decision was surprising , but I 'd long since realized that if I allowed that sort of thing to keep me awake at night I was going to be a chronic insomniac . |
| 23 | And I 'd certainly never sleepwalked before , if that was what I had done . |
| 24 | Until now I 'd never consciously posed that choice to myself . |
| 25 | I 'd never even noticed the one next door , but the herb must have come from that |
| 26 | And there are people , places , history in this country I 'd never even guessed at , though I sometimes feel I know them anyway . ’ |
| 27 | That 's a division I 'd never even heard of before . |
| 28 | I 'd never even heard of Killerton until I started working for the Trust , but when I was at Drogo I used to come across here fairly regularly because of the regional office being here and because I was just interested . |
| 29 | I 'd never even held a tiny baby let alone changed a nappy or supervised bath time . |
| 30 | As with so many worldly matters , it was Lawrence who had introduced me to the gravel and grain method of 241 humane culling , but only the theory of it ; I 'd never yet tried it in the field . |