Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , it 's like I 'm suddenly there , just sort of plonked down in a place and I got to really struggle to remember how I got there . |
| 2 | I knelt at once to pray and prayed most dutifully till morning when I expected a letter telling me Oreste had been taken . |
| 3 | ‘ The girls I trained with occasionally have a get-together . ’ |
| 4 | There are very very few who are er interested in finding a gambling haunt or a , you know , television or film theatre or whatever , you know , er er by and large there are a lot of people who chat to a waitress if they 're a bloke or , or chat to the , the whatever it is if they 're girls but er in , in a , in a friendly way , who will have a drink but will not be paralytically drunk , who may watch television or a , you know , film or theatre or something if it 's appropriate but wo n't get twitched if it is n't , you know , and and by and large erm all the people we 've , we 've , we 've , we 've come across I came across before have been very very good company and it is , it is delightful to have the have you , cos have you been on a Si on a Signpost ? |
| 5 | The front door was still locked and bolted — I 'd only used the back one since I 'd got here — and the keys were out the back , so I came in here to open these french windows . |
| 6 | ‘ I came in here to get some tablets — ’ |
| 7 | I replied at once to say that I should be in London shortly and suggested a meeting on Thursday , 14 May . |
| 8 | I began ‘ Great Expectations ’ with a very negative view towards it but as I read on I began to really enjoy it . |
| 9 | I turned to an investigation of my own family and my class background , and what it meant to be a woman … = This was the starting point of a project on ‘ my history ’ which I began by tentatively examining photographs of myself and ended by taking control over how I wanted to be photographed . |
| 10 | I put their empties on the bar and , of course , I glanced in here to see whether there were any more to clear away . |
| 11 | After recently having an exchange engine professionally fitted to my 1980 Range Rover , I decided to completely renew the suspension using heavy duty front and rear springs ‘ G ’ on front ‘ Y ’ on rear and four new shock absorbers . |
| 12 | Aunt Bedelia had the bedroom underneath and I did n't want her knocking on the ceiling with a broom handle so I decided for once to put up with his snoring and deep breathing exercises . |
| 13 | I knew that I would probably lose the case if I did , and lose everything , but for my own personal esteem I needed to actually make that stand . ’ |
| 14 | I was , in Robert Pirsig 's immortal phrase , caught in a gumption trap , expending more and more energy in a blind alley of endeavour from which I needed to quietly reverse in temporary resignation . |
| 15 | I started with highest worked on to the lowest . |
| 16 | that 's the perfect time and I had this sort of doubt in my mind erm then I was fortunate I learnt a co a very good scripted presentation for getting referred leads and once I started to actually ask , cos that 's all it comes down to , erm then I was getting three , four , in the end I was being quite clever and saying look if you just restrict them to three then I 'll give them the same good service I reckon I 've given you this service |
| 17 | One of the survivors I talked with well remembered the problem of working from manuscript : " sometimes you couldna read the manuscript . |
| 18 | I meant at least to insulate the nest with some polystyrene ceiling tiles , but I was afraid of trapping the animal inside . |
| 19 | ‘ I was always frightened of the way I felt , I think because I knew without really understanding it that you could … you could own me , Luke . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought at least to hear we were to live happy ever after ! |
| 21 | ‘ I thought at least to have taken Harry off your mind , ’ said Owen wretchedly , ‘ so that you might give all your heart to this . |
| 22 | I went to only had er there was about between twenty five and thirty in each year and there was only form for each year so I say |
| 23 | THE VICTORIAN red-brick building which housed the grammar school I went to still stands . |
| 24 | And as I went on not getting jobs , I felt my credibility was on the line . |
| 25 | Er I told you about it cos I went over there did n't I ? |
| 26 | oh , well I went in there reading the magazine before I bought it , so what , I 'm only looking at them , she goes |
| 27 | So I went in there to watch it . |
| 28 | Oh it is now yes , you 've got , I mean you 've got the service now have n't you and erm , but I like at St Margaret 's hospital I 'd been , I had been , I went in there to have my last boy , but they 're very , very good there they were , I 've not been in , I 've been in , I 've had treatment here for my hip and that up at Harlow but they would n't do the operation because of my blood clotting you see , so therefore I 've got to grin and bear it , I 've had eight years of it , I could n't walk for six months , but now I struggle and get around as I say with a couple of sticks I get round |
| 29 | Just under half the teachers I spoke to broadly agreed with the two who said of this collection of questions : ‘ very establishment ’ and ‘ obviously class-biased , sex-biased and race-biased ’ . |
| 30 | Well , certainly , who ever it was I spoke to today said their files show they was , was still dealing with it . |