Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were fifteen sisters here , but sadly most of them are gone now the old originals |
| 2 | ‘ It is difficult for me to find the limits of the car yet because I am given only a limited number of laps and I do n't know the circuit . ’ |
| 3 | Yea , though I run down the valleys , I am Towed up the hills . |
| 4 | It I be needed almost every time you have any information to give to the media . |
| 5 | because I 'm charged exactly the same whether I 'm there for three hours or twenty minutes ! |
| 6 | Every day I do n't manage to catch the same bus home as you do , I 'm fed up the whole evening . |
| 7 | And I 'm carried on the tide |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm mixed up a bit in it . |
| 9 | I was dragged down the hard , concrete steps on to the pavement . |
| 10 | Dad said I should wait until it stopped snowing so hard , so I watched from the window , and before very long it did ease and I was sent down the cellar for the fuel . |
| 11 | Mine seem to vary — I was given both a biography of Nancy Reagan , a quite old hardback of TV critical reviews and articles by Clive James and Muriel Spark 's autobiography ( about her childhood in Edinburgh ) recently and have enjoyed them all in different ways . |
| 12 | I was given only the pau . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I was beaten up a lot by my aunt . |
| 14 | The noose was tightened and I was pushed up a ladder . |
| 15 | Inside I was guided down a weird stairway and told at one point to watch my step carefully . |
| 16 | I do n't think so because it 's in the main street called street and I was taken over the first day . |
| 17 | In April , I was taken on a tour of three of the modern French resorts : Les Arcs , Valmorel and Les Menuires . |
| 18 | I was dismissed from the library , but with a good reference and I was taken on the staff of the local Employment Exchange to ‘ sign on ’ the others . |
| 19 | Not that she believes in anything , religion and so on — and nor do I of course , though I was brought up a little as a Catholic — but she goes by omens , auguri . |
| 20 | I was brought up a Catholic but I discarded it quite early on . |
| 21 | I was an East End boy myself ; I was brought up the hard way . |
| 22 | We made straight back to the airport and I was put on a Rhodesian plane for Salisbury , where negotiations were renewed and eventually I returned to London . |
| 23 | After that , I was put on a weekly wage of five shillings — a veritable fortune — four of which I kept locked in a tin box under Granpa 's bed until I had saved up my first guinea : a man what 's got a guinea got security , Mr Salmon once told me as he stood outside his shop , thumbs in his waistcoat pockets , displaying a shiny gold watch and chain . |
| 24 | At the end of 1986 I was put on the waiting list and stopped work . |
| 25 | Erm I then , erm sent a memo to the t erm County er Clerk of the Council and erm applied for upgrading and erm so I was then taken , I was put on the permanent staff . |
| 26 | I also had a plaster of Paris cast on my leg ( which had been injured in a fall some weeks before ) and consequently had some difficulty in walking , I was put on the Regimental Mini Bus which was run purely to ferry married personnel to their married quarters after functions . |
| 27 | I was weighed once a week , but never told my weight . |
| 28 | Except that privately I was lauded quite a lot and told , ‘ Oh that 's good , keep going into the hospitals and doing that ’ , but people could n't acknowledge it in public because their jobs would be on the line . |
| 29 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
| 30 | I was allowed only a small chamfer . |