Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it flowed , it incorporated into itself masses of loose debris , mud , rubble and boulders , some of them reported to weigh fifty tons . |
| 2 | I 'ad to pay three bob for a decent one . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I come originally from Forfar and I got jumped one night there by a lot of casuals . |
| 5 | Was moaning about she had to buy three Christmas presents and she only got two kids So Ann turned round and said oh you 're fucking well mad I got to buy five presents and I 've only got two kids . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | I got fined two classes [ a class was half a crown ] a week for twelve months , so it mounted up . |
| 9 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 10 | But I tried to keep one thing — the foot — in focus throughout , because it seemed to be moving slowest . ’ |
| 11 | Kenny Everett said : ‘ I stopped watching 10 years ago because it was hideously irritating . |
| 12 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 13 | I seemed to live two inches behind the front of my skin , that part of me created wilfully by my lovers . |
| 14 | ‘ Even though I looked as though I 'd gone ten rounds with Mike Tyson ? ’ |
| 15 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 16 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 17 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |
| 18 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 19 | And I looked , I wrote the first one , first class answer and I thought , this is a doddle , and I 'd done three days then or two nights without kip , and I sort of and erm suddenly I f and I went Smith nineteen forty ? |
| 20 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 21 | I wish I 'd cycled six miles home ! |
| 22 | It was such an odd feeling , as if I 'd lost twenty years somewhere . |
| 23 | Looking at me , you 'd never guess I 'd killed three people . |
| 24 | I 'd bought two bottles of cider and I went down my friend 's house and I had two neat vodkas and two vodka-and-limes and I got drunk . |
| 25 | Imagine if he found out that the frock I claimed I 'd bought two years ago in a closing-down sale had , in fact , arrived in my wardrobe a little over two weeks ago , having been purchased from a smart department store ? |
| 26 | I was carrying wall units and I 'd taken fourteen wall units one after another up two flights of stairs . |
| 27 | But , carrying baskets of buffalo dung from the pit by the cattle shed , along the road and down towards the mango tree to put it on the furthest field , my nose was burnt before I 'd walked twenty yards . |
| 28 | Yeah , and she did see rather surprised that I 'd finished one wall ! |
| 29 | I 'd got two pals that tried to get rid , they did get rid eventually , yeah . |
| 30 | And so I said , saying to my wife , Well , I said er , I 've got , I 'm going to get involved in bus fares to and from office , and I 'd got two kids at that time and I said er , I do n't know when Anne said , Well no good , cos she was a good socialist and all , and says , Right , no good letting money stand in the road as it will get by . |