Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effort of getting up the third and fourth flights , which I tried to manage in one go , muddled me somehow . |
| 2 | I tried to get on one two Mondays ago in Redditch |
| 3 | Whether , of course , I would have taken this view were I to have had someone in my squadron who turned LMF is open to question , When I reflect on the young aircrew that I helped to train in 1940 at Kinloss , some 10 years younger than myself , I marvel that the conversation stage was the last stint before they were to confront a highly lethal opponent . |
| 4 | Spoke to class teacher in corridor about work I proposed to do with one of his children . |
| 5 | On the change in tactics to a three man forward line , he said : ‘ I decided to play with three men up front to cause them problems back there . |
| 6 | I started to dig in one corner of it , and I dug for six months , winter months , erm and erm managed a shallow pool which erm was n't what I had envisaged at all , but erm two snipe lived there and liked it . |
| 7 | I managed to get in hundreds of leaflets , through a few loyal workers in the Department , but these were either destroyed or had little effect ; or more likely , were not adequately distributed out of fear . |
| 8 | And that , I I was , my hus , during the time mother was ill , my husband took ill , now this is where authorities do n't give you any back up , instead of sending him to hospital which was fifteen minutes by bus , I could have visited him every day they sent him to the other side of the county which only allowed a visit once a week , and meant I had to leave at twelve o'clock and get home at six ! |
| 9 | It was a joke — I had to cook for 70 people and there were 12 rooms and a pub as well that could seat 100–200 in summer . |
| 10 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 11 | So , it 's , alright it 's not a major problem , but that 's the only difficulty with it is it 's not , it 's good having the bus service where you do n't have to pay , right , if you do n't , like I did n't realize the bus went at five past one , and I was all ready to go , and er , it was ten past one , and I thought , oh no , so I had to wait till three o'clock . |
| 12 | I recalled how sane and healthy they were , and I contrasted them with the fiends with whom I had to deal in 1816 ! |
| 13 | When Phil Collins came on , his jacket had such wide shoulders that I had to lean to one side to see the monitor TV set which the producer uses to scribble messages to me . |
| 14 | Yeah they got me and I had to turn into one of them octopus things . |
| 15 | ‘ I was taken to a room which I had to share with three others , two Indian women and one black man , ’ she told me . |
| 16 | ‘ I had to come before two great nations died . |
| 17 | I wanted to crumble like one of the sorely missed Katy 's oxo cubes , vanish with a tug of the wind and leave not a wrack behind . |
| 18 | I wanted to get inside one of the those people . ‘ |
| 19 | Always a sickly woman , she expected to die in 1855 after a doctor had pronounced a disease of the heart to be fatal and quickly wrote her autobiography . |
| 20 | The bike was in his space when she got to work at eight . |
| 21 | With Miss Stocks 's support , the Cassell Trust grant was renewed yet again , but Miss Green appeared to have lost her former enthusiasm for breaking new ground and she concentrated her efforts in established WEA branches with the exception of Corby which she helped to re-establish in 1936 . |
| 22 | She tried to count to ten , and tried even harder to remember what that astrologer had said to her , but had that astrologer really known what she was talking about anyway ? |
| 23 | First she stopped at the coffee house to see if all was ready , then she stopped to speak to one of the servants . |
| 24 | As she prepared to leave for one of her foraging expeditions , Sycorax would poke up at her and hiss , ‘ Do n't let them see what you pick ! |
| 25 | She started to hop from one foot to the other . |
| 26 | She decided to wait until eleven o'clock , when the medical rounds were usually done . |
| 27 | She learned to pray at two or three , and felt chosen to preach the gospel to the heathen from eleven . |
| 28 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |
| 29 | After the concert she had to wait for four minutes before McCartney could rejoin her … while he accepted a standing ovation . |
| 30 | Because of the extensions of the life of that Parliament as a consequence of the war , she had to wait until 1945 to fight an election , which she won with a majority of 665 . |