Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [v-ing] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenny Everett said : ‘ I stopped watching 10 years ago because it was hideously irritating . |
| 2 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 3 | I started using one hand and it was ages before I learnt to use two . |
| 4 | ‘ I STARTED smoking 40 cigarettes every day , but I do n't finish 40 . |
| 5 | Well , like I say , it 's not erm an ambition really of mine it 's a challenge of a lifetime because I 've never liked running and I decided that as I started running two years ago that er the marathon was the ultimate , and as it 's the ultimate challenge I thought what I 'm asking and why I 've asked to come in to FOX F M is to er ask the businesses of Bicester to help me er raise money for the er Bicester Health Centre , and also for the Bible School boys sponsoring me . |
| 6 | It 's tremendous really , it 's an unbelievable relief for me , it would have taken me months to get used to a new cue , that 's the only cue I 've ever had er since I started playing eight years ago . |
| 7 | But erm I felt as though , I felt exactly the same , I felt I 'd just been asleep I just had my eyes shut and I felt opening one eye to have a look out and see what people were doing . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been to that riding-stable — Angela 's sister Jennifer and I went hacking one day when I stayed the weekend there . |
| 9 | Slowly she imagined taking one step after another until she reported that she could physically go no further because the slope of the ceiling was so steep . |
| 10 | She started sobbing three hours before the border . |
| 11 | You depended on your car unless you fancied walking two miles to Westerfield to catch the bus . |
| 12 | We got talking one evening last week , and he was asking about Carinish Court . |
| 13 | Yeah we we kee we kept getting twenty Ps today . |
| 14 | They recommended using three modes , as in CSE , and a single grading system , though with special papers in some subjects for pupils of low or high ability . |
| 15 | They tried having two machines but never had enough laundry to justify running them both . |
| 16 | On 11 March 1772 , two weeks after the society had its first meeting on 23 February , they reported discharging five debtors from the Marshalsea Prison in Southwark — the biggest debt was £2 5s 8d — two from the Poultry Compter ( biggest debt £6 18s 5d ) ; one from the Kings Bench Prison ; five from the Borough Compter ; four from the Wood Street Compter ; three from Whitechapel Prison ; five from Newgate Prison ; and one from the New Gaol in Whitecross Street , Southwark . |
| 17 | They began farming three years ago , when loans were easy to get and their bank was happy to lend them all they needed . |
| 18 | He admitted needing four years of therapy to get over their 10-year marriage . |
| 19 | The man whose car collided with a coach moments before it crashed killing three people and injuring twenty-six others says he ca n't sleep for thinking about the accident . |
| 20 | The father-of-three , who used to smoke 60 cigarettes a day , claims that Imperial Tobacco failed to provide health warnings when he began smoking 30 years ago . |
| 21 | He started drinking 18 years ago . |
| 22 | He is claiming that Imperial Tobacco failed to issue warnings about the health hazards when he started smoking 30 years ago . |
| 23 | Oh he , he went swimming one time and that was pretty good |
| 24 | He went missing one night when she was sleeping soundly across the hut from me , being under the mistaken impression that he and his crew had been grounded because of an electrical fault in their aircraft . |
| 25 | Until more interesting work was available he felt he had no option but to keep the men in his charge fully occupied and if it meant using eight men to undertake a task which could be accomplished in a fraction of the time by a machine , well — the men were n't going anywhere . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ I have n't got a grandmother but if I had one I would shoot her in the foot if it meant getting three points . ’ |
| 27 | He did n't mind responding to a panic call at such a late hour , especially not when it meant transporting three microwave ovens up to the Hall and so getting an advance peek at the preparations . |
| 28 | It meant spending two months living in the spare bedroom and the kitchen , the only rooms not used by the crew , while the cast — including Vanessa Redgrave , Emma Thompson , Helena Bonham Carter and , fresh from The Silence of the Lambs , Anthony Hopkins — were filming . |
| 29 | This prevented him from taking part in yesterday 's pre-qualifying after he had waiting 10 years for the chance of an F1 drive . |
| 30 | He reappeared carrying two glasses that tinkled with ice and passed one over the fence to the woman . |