Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , personally , always tried to avoid being drawn into any kind of union or political affairs , but in the case of the Association I made a slight concession in that I agreed to become Editor of our newsletter , which started out as a news-sheet and eventually grew into a magazine called " Coastlines " , featuring articles , reports from the cutters , poems and competitions . |
| 2 | I agreed to get photos of the fuel rods for the Union in Washington . |
| 3 | I got to take care of this too . |
| 4 | Then I commenced a tremulous search through its pages , almost as if I expected to find details of a timeslip between Geneva and where I now was . |
| 5 | Then she spoke to the mirror , ‘ There were times when he was drunk , when I tried to take advantage of him , thinking he might forget to use one of those … things ! ’ |
| 6 | I tried to take pictures of demonstrations in front of the American Embassy and the Americans were pushing me around worse than the Iraqis . |
| 7 | I tried to recall details of Frankenstein 's ghastly history . |
| 8 | ‘ I tried to get hold of you last night , but the phone was n't working . |
| 9 | But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd heard stories of women being in labour for twelve or fifteen hours with their first child so I was quite pleased . |
| 11 | I seemed to think that I 'd seen scores of other holy pictures just like it ; God with his fingers held funny and always with one pointing upwards . |
| 12 | After all , I 'd seen pictures of the Queen riding in a carriage , the royal bride and groom rode in a carriage . |
| 13 | After all , I 'd seen pictures of the Queen riding in a carriage , the royal bride and groom rode in a carriage . |
| 14 | I 'd seen pictures of you … a home movie ; you were a beautiful young woman — why should n't I agree to look you up ? |
| 15 | Stuart Balmforth , with whom I 'd done part of my National Service in the Canal Zone , was now the co-owner and a director of British Midland . |
| 16 | Knitting was a painful business for me , but it was absorbing , and I 'd lost track of the time when I heard crashing footsteps approaching and a determined bang on the door . |
| 17 | Yeah I 'm like that but we had a erm conifer type tree it was only so big but and then I and when we we was unloading off the van , this come off and I dug a hole and stuck it in the garden , in the front garden just by the pathways right that 's that but I was washing the car one day , a nice hot day got my shirt off when I come in course I 'd brushed past it I 'd got patterns of the leaves on my on my back . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I suppose I 'd expected expressions of grief , probably pages and pages of it . |
| 19 | To begin with , I 'd spent part of the night dreaming about Father — one of those long , tangled dreams with occasional moments of such lucid clarity that you can remember them in detail for years afterwards . |
| 20 | I 'd had visions of various Uulaan delights that I hoped she might join me in , above all the free-fall Orgitunnel , among whose heaving tangle of bodies in simulated zerograv I 've had many memorable experience . |
| 21 | I 'd caught sight of him in the distance from time to time all afternoon , but now when I wanted him his red hair was n't anywhere around . |
| 22 | ‘ As a matter of fact it was while I was crossing one of the canals on my way back here that I happened to catch sight of you and your friend . |
| 23 | I began to take notice of her when she was hardly thirteen years old . |
| 24 | I was so relieved that I began to weep tears of joy but Liza was not similarly affected . |
| 25 | In the weeks following I began to write reviews of local stage plays and the bigger and better films that my friend E.P . |
| 26 | I do n't know whether it affects anyone else but what happened to me was that for the first time in my adult life I began to feel part of a community . |
| 27 | Their laughter so infuriated me that I began to have thoughts of revenge . |
| 28 | I decided to put sections of the lake and river systems in the background , allowing an impression of the vegetation on the banks and in the distance to give a general idea of which part of a river or what type of lake was shown . |
| 29 | I usually make my own curtains but a few years ago I decided to make use of a free making-up service offered by a large department store . |
| 30 | Now that I 'd seen them together like that I started to have fantasies of being invited to watch them together , or to take photographs of them . |