Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I expended so much energy making it beautiful for you ! ’ |
| 2 | Of course , I avoided so much work , going out to the bloody square on Tower Hill to gawk at the gore-drenched platform where the Great Ones of the land had their heads cut off . |
| 3 | I read only last week , for instance , that the N S P C C is suffering severely from the recession and higher running costs , and I 'm sure they 're not alone . |
| 4 | I did n't have any more whiskey as I needed to think , so I made even more tea and settled on the chair again by the fire , lit a cigarette and started to work my way through the file again . |
| 5 | During that time I made over 45 phone calls to vets , zoos , aquariums , fishkeepers , garden centres , and local authorities — all to no avail . |
| 6 | I made so much money , he went home grumblin' about someone fiddlin' his profits . |
| 7 | I made very little money , just enough to run my car . |
| 8 | " So I made this little bite for you myself . " |
| 9 | Consider in this connection the point I made earlier that comprehension is necessarily incomplete and dependent on purpose . |
| 10 | If we have the same amount of cold weather this winter as we had last winter , we will more or less double the coverage of the benefit as a result of the changes that I announced earlier this year . |
| 11 | I realized then that nationalization , the great the great nationalization enterprise was simply state capitalism . |
| 12 | Oh I got best bloody hand around ! |
| 13 | Erm indeed I saw him , I saw Ronnie once in a hotel in er in Washington , this was the time it was n't actually the time he was shot cos I got away that time but the |
| 14 | When I explained , I got even less sympathy : ‘ Of all the stupid things . |
| 15 | I got home that night full of excitement , a state which was quickly changed when my mother discovered that I was well and truly inundated with horse fleas . |
| 16 | Finally , speaking in a low voice , the boy said : ‘ There 's something you do n't know : dad told me this morning that he was in bed when I got home last night . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ When I got home last night and found the yard door bolted I thought the old man had deliberately locked me out but the police reckon that whoever killed father was with him then — while I was banging on the door , trying to get in . ’ |
| 18 | Norma got a huge big chip with chicken dip and then we brought Fred back something to eat as well , we were starving , and I got home last night and I was gon na make myself a sandwich but mummy-in-law was in bed so I says och I 'll just go to bed myself . |
| 19 | I got absolutely zero response . |
| 20 | I got much more homework than you Nick , because like , I have to do the tape thing as well . |
| 21 | So when I got there this morning he was still in his pyjamas he 'd got on quite well , all he wanted me to do was wash his face . |
| 22 | In fact , I got so much dirt , |
| 23 | I got only wrong answer |
| 24 | Well cos I got very little Lego . |
| 25 | Last time , a friend and I got extremely drunk waiting to hear Dukakis had lost , and when the final result came through , we must have misheard it ; certainly , we were quite surprised by the announcement that George Best had been elected president of the USA . |
| 26 | I expected far greater progress than this . |
| 27 | I experienced far more racism at primary school than I ever did at secondary , which was perhaps unusual . |
| 28 | In terms of expectations of the ‘ good ’ pupil , I found surprisingly few sex differences . |
| 29 | I went er , in to check whether these were available last week , just to make sure they were available and , they we , they had been reserved last term but I went to check and , I found so much difficulty finding my way around |
| 30 | ‘ With the Government slowly clamping down on all media coverage , unless I moved fast any chance of filming within South Africa would be gone and I did want the accuracy and flavour of the country itself to come through in the film . ’ |