Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did I get to model the clothes how I liked , I got to keep them all afterwards . |
| 2 | I tried to telephone her this morning at the flat but there was no reply . |
| 3 | ‘ I tried to telephone you this morning — ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to call you this morning , ’ she said , ‘ but you 'd already left . ’ |
| 5 | I tried to call you this week-end . |
| 6 | I tried phoning you this lunchtime to ask about the above proposal , but I do n't even know if I had the right number , though I got through to it twice ; about five different people spoke to me uncomprehendingly , and eventually a man came to the phone and said ‘ Bratislava ’ ; I did n't know whether that meant I 'd got a Bratislava number , or that you 'd gone to Bratislava . |
| 7 | I tried to catch him this morning , before we went to our appointments , but he would n't speak to me . |
| 8 | I tried to contact you this afternoon but was unable to get through . |
| 9 | ‘ I tried to tell her that , ’ he said . |
| 10 | she never , never could , and I said what I tried to tell you all |
| 11 | I promised to tell him all about my murder when I 'd written it . |
| 12 | I phoned to invite you this morning , Guido , but of course you were n't there . ’ |
| 13 | When he left I phoned to wish him all the best and he said , ‘ keep on picking people 's brains ’ . ’ |
| 14 | Hilda , he wrote , when I ventured to tell her all her troubles were her own fault : You are so cold . |
| 15 | He 's er he 's saying that er the shifting of the ground 's political but I 'd to remember him that er , th it 's the council that 's doing their job , he 's not doing his job . |
| 16 | I sorted through my frocks but could find none that fitted me ; I 'd outgrown them all and was waiting until I 'd grown into Liza 's castoffs . |
| 17 | Whether I 'd imagined it all . |
| 18 | I 'd had enough — I 'd seen it all . |
| 19 | So I wished I 'd done it all in the first place , now I 've got to do it . |
| 20 | I think that I was also over-confident when going into that river as if I 'd done it all before and was some sort of expert . |
| 21 | ‘ Tod Richardson , ’ I repeat , speaking flatly , nodding to Vinnie Dirkin as if I 'd guessed it all the while . |
| 22 | I thought that as I 'd involved you all , to some extent , in the enquiries that were launched yesterday , I ought to inform you of the results of our search for the boy , Gerry Boden … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You accused me of being little better than a thief , a cheat , as though I 'd masterminded it all just to hurt you . |
| 24 | I mean if if I 'd done that this morning and I 'd written it all up before you came in and then said well what we 've done is this and then we did that and then we did that but as as it was generated as we discussed then then you were with me I hope at the way it went |
| 25 | What we gave you is the time they come and the next weekend they were back again , and I 'd warned them several times and in the end I said look forget it , and I had it , you know , the works gone off , erm , and as far as I 'm concerned it 's Wednesday nights , I 've really got to , and the price I started to pay , is no longer worth it to me . |
| 26 | He was sure I was going to be sent to Siberia but I 'd given him all my film and all the pictures that I 'd taken already . |
| 27 | I 'd planned it all out , not the day , just got up one morning and thought , ‘ This is it , I 've had enough . |
| 28 | that 's why I really wanted to try all these other avenues cos I 'd watched them all and , and each one , no disrespect to any of them , but |
| 29 | I 'd got them all . |
| 30 | You asked if I 'd got it that 's how I got it , knew what it was |