Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 2 | Well when you 're elected as a councillor , you 've got provision for three years , that 's right , I got re-elected after three years , after three months there they changed their minds and decided to put er , a labour council in , so I mean . |
| 3 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 4 | Each day , in my duties , I got ferried from one side to the other . |
| 5 | I 'd buzzed off one , but the rest I found hard to remember . |
| 6 | The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away . |
| 7 | I 'd gone through three packets of tissues from the canteen , and a flunkey had been dispatched to Underwoods to buy me a large box of Men 's Size . |
| 8 | The welcome from son and wife was the first warmth I 'd felt in seven days . |
| 9 | Up until now there had n't been a peep out of the former Jam bassist which I 'd attributed to one of three things — shyness , boredom or a reluctance to interrupt his new boss who , it has to be said , makes Ian Paisley seem like a Trappist Monk when he gets into his stride . |
| 10 | I 'd walked into one , as Harry had . |
| 11 | Well when I was thirteen I supposed to be having b bad trouble and I went to doctor 's and instead of knocking off school at waiting till I was fourteen , I 'd finished at thirteen . |
| 12 | He told me to come back after I 'd starved off ten pounds . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If I 'd started at 17 or 18 , who knows what I might have achieved . |
| 14 | And I 'd started at six in the morning . |
| 15 | Cut adrift from nearly everything I 'd known before seven , I turned inward and invented story games to play alone . |
| 16 | About leaving a place when I felt torn between two people I loved . |
| 17 | How then is it possible that a gesture I saw performed by one person , a gesture that was connected to her , that characterized her and was part of her individual charm , could at the same time be the essence of another person and my dreams of her ? |
| 18 | It seems fairly certain that this subvention , which Artaxerxes I had confirmed in 459 B.C. ( Ezra 7.21–2 ) , had been continued by Alexander and the Ptolemies : it was later reconfirmed , though with a changed formula , by Augustus ( Phil . |
| 19 | Wharton said : ‘ It is something that I must overcome , I had trained for 12 rounds and was thinking of the crowd instead of doing the job I was in the ring to do . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ So I returned to Sotheby , Wilkinson and Hodge , whom I had joined in 1911 … ‘ |
| 21 | So I returned to Sotheby , Wilkinson & Hodge , whom I had joined in 1911 , and took the place of Mr Lambert , the chief sales clerk . |
| 22 | After I had queued for forty-five minutes some returns returned and we were in . |
| 23 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 24 | With the enthusiasm of a boy I thought I had stumbled across one of the great masterpieces of English writing . |
| 25 | But sometimes these hiding places were found ; and I think that Ann and I had stumbled into one of these hiding places , where the women and children had lain , trembling with fear , listening to the sound of their approaching persecutors . |
| 26 | I had written to hundreds of firms asking for material support , and had asked royalty , influential people and famous explorers to lend their names to a list of patrons , but all without success . |
| 27 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |
| 28 | It was mid-morning when we set out nervously along the coast road on the first two-wheeled motor I had ridden for 20 years . |
| 29 | I had hoped for thirty on the paved road to bump up the average before the open desert at Adrar . |
| 30 | The army had said we would average fifteen , but I had hoped for eighteen and had told them so . |