Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I come originally from Forfar and I got jumped one night there by a lot of casuals . |
| 2 | I got caught last week because I got fed the wrong line . |
| 3 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 4 | I got fined two classes [ a class was half a crown ] a week for twelve months , so it mounted up . |
| 5 | I was er er there was something that I got told many years ago that I |
| 6 | I got told last night . |
| 7 | Cos I got told this afternoon he have n't made a very good job of this cleaning up ! |
| 8 | Soon as I got paid last month . |
| 9 | And he 'd always ask how much I 'd eaten that day . ’ |
| 10 | I was disappointed ; I 'd eaten better food on board . |
| 11 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
| 12 | I think Mrs Stove was a little worried about trusting her daughter to me that particular summer , as it was the one after I 'd struck young Paul down in his prime , but at nine years of age I was an obviously happy and well-adjusted child , responsible and well-spoken and , when it was mentioned , demonstrably sad about my younger brother 's demise . |
| 13 | ‘ Even though I looked as though I 'd gone ten rounds with Mike Tyson ? ’ |
| 14 | But , if I 'd gone next Thursday there 'd be e English , and then it 'd be a a job for them if they |
| 15 | He made me play cards , I 'd played ordinary auction bridge at that time . |
| 16 | Well , cos it was in town , it was nearer to shops , and erm I 'd heard that keeping Balloon Woods ' flats warm was costing people a hell of a lot of money . |
| 17 | I 'd heard that noise before , but never from Selina . |
| 18 | I was pretty sure I 'd seen that coin before , in that very hotel . |
| 19 | I 'd seen other men in other companies , as innocent as I believed myself to be , hounded out because wrongdoers require a scapegoat where the wrongdoing concerns money . |
| 20 | I 'd seen premature babies but never a baby that small . |
| 21 | I mean to tell you that I 'd seen old Ken |
| 22 | I 'd seen this attitude once before in the village when a cow , grazing on the cliffside , fell down into the valley below . |
| 23 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 24 | In a famous recent case , someone said : ‘ If I 'd seen this pile of bricks on the side of the road I 'd never have thought it was art ’ . |
| 25 | You see , I 'd mentioned the fact that I 'd seen this chap several mornings hanging about in the Cove , so I decided not to take Miss Celia down there for a bit , even though we were having a real Indian summer that year . |
| 26 | ‘ But I was cautious about it too as I 'd seen both sides — the periods of unemployment as well as the glossy side of my father being in something so popular like Howards ' Way . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 28 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 29 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |
| 30 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |