Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After I became involved we came up with denim products , which had great success for ladies ’ fashions . |
| 2 | The youth hostel was closed , the only shop was disguised as a garage and had no window , a local quaker family had helped to close the only pub in the village in the 1950s , and a farmer I asked said he had none . |
| 3 | I failed to get myself introduced the other night . |
| 4 | When I got elected I got elected because the erm roads in this county were in a six hundred year repair cycle . |
| 5 | When and I got married I had to wear a size 16 wedding dress . |
| 6 | Well before I got married I had this I had this fucking dream that we could n't get our hairs done , all the girls could n't their hairs done because nowhere was open . |
| 7 | Before I got married I led a pretty lively existence where women were concerned , and enjoyed it to the full . |
| 8 | and that cos when I got married I took it with me did n't I ? |
| 9 | I got to admit I did n't pop over just to offer yer some neighbourly 'elp , it was on me mind while I was there to touch you for the loan of a bob . |
| 10 | Well that time that I got cayleyed I did n't realise I |
| 11 | I 'd be a liar if I tried to pretend I knew the answer to that one . |
| 12 | I seemed to remember he had one and put it at the back of one of his chairs , and |
| 13 | ‘ But the truth is , there was never anything between us — not after I 'd discovered she cared more for her mirror than for anything or anyone else . ’ |
| 14 | Before I 'd joined they 'd called themselves Strand — after the Roxy Music song ‘ Do The Strand — and The Swankers but both these names were well past their sell-by date by the time I arrived . |
| 15 | What if I 'd said we killed them all ? |
| 16 | but when it come out me mouth , as soon as I said it I thought you should n't speak to people to people like that but I 'd said it had n't I ? |
| 17 | It was she who told me that Doogie was a commis chef at one of the better Park Lane hotels ( and I 'd said I had n't realized his politics were important and she 'd just looked at me ) and she was a journalist with one of the North London suburban weeklies . |
| 18 | I 'd said I wanted him back , but I was frightened and I felt I could n't face telling the social workers . |
| 19 | I 'd heard they 'd started taking people on . |
| 20 | Well , I 'd heard someone had told the police where I was hanging out . |
| 21 | I 'd heard it said that th the development of this site has been in the development plan for twenty years |
| 22 | I I 'd heard he wrote a few things . |
| 23 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 24 | I was that content with being a mother I 'd decided I did n't want a job until my daughter went to secondary school . |
| 25 | I phoned Shirley , a friend I 'd made who ran a travel agency , and asked her to book me on the mid-day Concorde . |
| 26 | Not easy for her to deny me , I 'd assumed she meant , not easy to continue denying herself . |
| 27 | With the money I 'd saved I went over to France , going straight to where she was staying in Tours . |
| 28 | And me being a silly idiot , see if I 'd realized I did n't think you do n't think that there 's three parts of the tank , you think it 's a tank and you just turn your tap on and the water comes out or |
| 29 | Nineteen years later , in an angry letter from Italy about some review I 'd written which began : ‘ Jesus Gawd Aiken , you poor blithering ass ’ he concluded by saying : ‘ I 've never forgotten that you would n't go to the Blast dinner . ’ |
| 30 | I only took out the palace because I knew I 'd given I 'd written a cheque for forty |