Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 2 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 3 | Then I asked to go straight back . |
| 4 | Quite early on " I ceased to consider representative democracy as an absolute principle " , he wrote later , " and regarded it as a question of time , place , and circumstance … " |
| 5 | Yeah his got to do another stress test and have more level . |
| 6 | ‘ When I took over the club from Connelly I agreed to give old Giuseppe there a job , ’ he explained . |
| 7 | That is the only reason I agreed to write this message to you . |
| 8 | ‘ I was in charge of ‘ Fluon ’ for a couple of years and I failed to make any impact whatsoever on that particular problem . |
| 9 | My coach and I planned to use this meeting as training and it just turned out to be bad training . ’ |
| 10 | I planned to amplify this change of mood by having different colour schemes . |
| 11 | I planned to make one chair as a trial piece , and , if it looked right , to do a real run of six , using the trial pieces as ‘ templates ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I come originally from Forfar and I got jumped one night there by a lot of casuals . |
| 13 | I got caught last week because I got fed the wrong line . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | While he was at Arista , Charles and I got to know each other well . |
| 16 | Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments . |
| 17 | ‘ I got to know one girl at the local teacher training college , and now if she is n't available she puts me in touch with one of her friends . |
| 18 | And I got to get some toilet roll . |
| 19 | I got to have some beef in that role . |
| 20 | Well I got to work all day and I 'm still oh do you think , want me I can get you two I 'll write you a list , . |
| 21 | I got told last night . |
| 22 | Cos I got told this afternoon he have n't made a very good job of this cleaning up ! |
| 23 | Soon as I got paid last month . |
| 24 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 25 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 26 | Although I tried to do this visualization several times a day , I found it best and most rewarding first thing in the morning when I and my mind were fresh . |
| 27 | I tried to hold this woman up in a car park underneath the council offices . |
| 28 | " Please — " I tried to formulate some plea in the middle of a pain , but it came out as a whimper . |
| 29 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 30 | I tried using some spray furniture polish , rubbed well in , on the areas that were jamming . |