Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them eventually died of cardiac failure without the return to normal bowel function . |
| 2 | I rarely got beyond this point in my sales patter before expressions of incredulity replaced polite interest . |
| 3 | In February 1940 at the Labour Exchange at Devizes , I duly registered for military service . |
| 4 | I duly arrived at 9.30 am . |
| 5 | I secretly hoped for twenty-one . |
| 6 | The second category , overall impression , involves listening to all the adjectives describing the person and thereby forming an overall impression ; ‘ [ I ] assessed the overall impression left once all the words had been read out ’ or ‘ I was not conscious of using any strategy in particular at the time , but I guess I merely listened to all the traits and tried to gain an overall impression . ’ |
| 7 | I naturally came to this conclusion only with the greatest reluctance ; it was no easy matter for me , the responsible commander , to abandon my dreams of hope and victory ! |
| 8 | I personally spoke at countless gatherings , from twenty suited businessmen at their weekly lunch to 200 noisy schoolchildren packed in a hall . |
| 9 | What lessons , anything arithmetic , mental arithmetic , dictation which I was bad at , my school report was about fair , fair , fair , poor , poor , poor , that 's what mine was , I only got about one excellent . |
| 10 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 11 | So that was my life , I only had about two years in |
| 12 | I was n't there very long cos I only went in one class in Road School . |
| 13 | I only put on ten pounds — in fact I did look rather skinny amongst all the other opera singers . |
| 14 | I mean the only country I spent a lot of time in , in , in Europe is Austria , and then I only stopped in remote villages , you know , more or less , so er , I mean they rely on eh , tourist trade , they rely on tourist trade , where , where I 've |
| 15 | I only found about one say a couple of awkward people , all the twenty years I was in Rhos-y-Bol . |
| 16 | And I suddenly realized at this stage that there was going to be something rather unexpected happening . |
| 17 | Bill , I suddenly saw with that horrible clarity of hindsight , had been a selfish and demanding patient . |
| 18 | I just went past these fellows and one of them shouted , ‘ Hey , speccy four-eyes , ’ and I ignored them like you told me and then they came and took them off and stamped on them . ’ |
| 19 | I had sweat all over my face and as soon as they opened the door I just went for one of them . |
| 20 | See I just went like that , looking up : ‘ Come on , its bed time . |
| 21 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
| 22 | Therefore , if I just looked at some of those policy teams that I referred to in my presentation , I would expect , and it 's happening , that we would be taking on board , in each of those policy teams , the policy development work that 's applicable to Europe . |
| 23 | I just looked at this piece of paper in horror and was pounced on . |
| 24 | No because then , I just looked over all those things that I went and . |
| 25 | Also I just played on six tunes on Bruce Hornsby 's new record , with Bonnie Raitt and Phil Collins . |
| 26 | I just glanced at both your hands earlier on , just glanced , you know , and I seemed to see something quite unexpected written there . |
| 27 | Actually just just quickly er I just noticed on that list of your questionnaires that we got back a couple that they did n't actually know what was going on . |
| 28 | And I just hid in that yeah . |
| 29 | She has never possessed boots or winter shoes : " I ca n't afford closed-in shoes , so I always wear sandals and in the winter I just put on two pairs of socks . " |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , I just bumped into some people , who knew some people … . |