Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I asked to go straight back . |
| 2 | I applied to do Voluntary Services Overseas ( VSO ) . |
| 3 | 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 … " |
| 4 | ‘ When I took over the club from Connelly I agreed to give old Giuseppe there a job , ’ he explained . |
| 5 | I got to tell bleeding lies cos I mean to say |
| 6 | I tried to leave certain areas vague so they could use their own creativity rather than just copying my cartoon . |
| 7 | My multiple personality required multiple scripts , and from my study of graphology I tried to create individual scripts that conformed to the analyses of heavy down-strokes , ‘ pasty ’ loops and uncrossed ‘ ts ’ : I was especially interested in ‘ pasty ’ strokes , which are supposed to indicate a rich sexuality , and disconnected letters , indicative of ‘ inspiration ’ . |
| 8 | With the help of Tony Wedd and Egerton Sykes I tried to contact surviving members of the Straight Track Club . |
| 9 | There were n't many people sitting near us , so I tried to make polite conversation , but he was n't having any . |
| 10 | ‘ After I stopped eating factory-farmed meat I now can not stand the feeling of eating flesh . |
| 11 | But I learnt to respect other religions . " |
| 12 | I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals . |
| 13 | I think Mrs Stove was a little worried about trusting her daughter to me that particular summer , as it was the one after I 'd struck young Paul down in his prime , but at nine years of age I was an obviously happy and well-adjusted child , responsible and well-spoken and , when it was mentioned , demonstrably sad about my younger brother 's demise . |
| 14 | He made me play cards , I 'd played ordinary auction bridge at that time . |
| 15 | I 'd seen other men in other companies , as innocent as I believed myself to be , hounded out because wrongdoers require a scapegoat where the wrongdoing concerns money . |
| 16 | I 'd seen premature babies but never a baby that small . |
| 17 | I mean to tell you that I 'd seen old Ken |
| 18 | I was wearing mostly stuff that I 'd pinched from films I 'd done mod gear from Quadropehnia and Take 6-cum-Paul Smith from Breaking Glass . |
| 19 | I 'd ensured generous media coverage . |
| 20 | No we did n't because I had bought various things , I like antiques so does my husband , I 'd bought various things while he was away in this erm , the card table and er , I had a new place of stuff , er but since we 've been , but we had odd chairs did n't we ? |
| 21 | They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet , and I 'd got tremendous scarring of the gut . |
| 22 | So I fell for it and I volunteered for the Guards , but after a week , they decided I , I 'd got flat feet which was n't very good for slamming your foot down as the guards demanded in those days . |
| 23 | First of all Mum thought I was anorexic and then she thought I 'd got thyroid trouble . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd started classical guitar lessons , too , as that was the proviso for getting my original guitar . |
| 25 | Ever since the journey to this place seventeen months ago I 'd had occasional panic attacks at the thought of being ‘ mummified ’ and stuck in the base of a truck again . |
| 26 | ‘ No , ’ she replied , ‘ if I 'd had black parents to go home to , they would have been on the receiving end of aggro all day long as well . ’ |
| 27 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 28 | So when my cousin rang to ask ‘ which machine ’ , I said I 'd had good results and so on . |
| 29 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
| 30 | Out popped a very strange gentleman from this aircraft that I noticed had American markings , but I still did not know what the aircraft was , I had a vague idea but I was not sure . |