Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
2 | I merely made it possible for you to come back to me the sooner . ’ |
3 | I obviously got you wrong . ’ |
4 | But , I , I misunderstood , I obviously got it wrong then . |
5 | They nicked whole street , and I only read it last night . |
6 | No cos I only got it this summer cos my other one was nicked , my other one which had all my really nice visas in it , which I was really |
7 | I only got , I only ruined me other one cos when , when it , |
8 | ‘ Sir , I only met her this weekend . |
9 | " Tilda , I only took you three months ago . |
10 | ‘ But I only bought it last year , ’ he insisted , holding up the ancient object . |
11 | ‘ I only charged them fifty pence so we wo n't get rich on that , but it 's probably done our reputation a lot of good . ’ |
12 | I only found you this morning , and reckoning by the tide you could n't have been there long . |
13 | Yes , I only found it this morning by accident , I thought oh god |
14 | I only gave her fifteen . |
15 | I had known Willie since childhood days at Nairn , Geoffrey I had come to know later ; and while I greatly admired them both , and still do , I found this closing of establishment ranks deeply shocking . |
16 | More came welling and flooding under the door , so that I suddenly found it all about my ankles . |
17 | I mean they 're the ones who are badgering me for , for qualifications , they 're badgering me for , I , I , I just told them straight that I will do it for them because I , I wo n't get paid for it |
18 | But then I just told you that . |
19 | ‘ I just told you that , Charles . |
20 | Well it 's just that I may be totally wrong but I just read it first when you read it first it 's like its prey in the light if you see what I mean . |
21 | I just imagined you all wrongly . ’ |
22 | I just got it last year . |
23 | I just gave her that ! |
24 | I overcame this problem quite easily in the end : I just gave her less for supper when she was off my hand , got her weight down , say , half an ounce , and built up her appetite , so that when I had her on my fist she 'd be hungry . |
25 | And I just gave you two , two are n't I ? |
26 | push the bed , the bed had been pushed up and the stuff had tumbled and I just moved it all away |
27 | ‘ I just threw them all in the bin , ’ remembers Judith , 27 , from Cambridge . |
28 | Yeah , I just dumped it all . |
29 | Inexperienced as I was in counselling , I nevertheless felt it essential that the school should offer itself as a support agency through which parents could find their way into the numerous services provided by the state , by the local authority and by voluntary organisations . |
30 | Although Tibbs warned Benn that he needed the last two rounds , I already had him five rounds up — and so did Eubank . |