Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got this press release the other day , cheaply produced and photocopied , for a new video release . |
| 2 | Oh , I built whole fantasies round you , I imagined what it would be like to have a child , to have had you as my son . |
| 3 | In November 1976 , I watched Syrian tanks drive through the suburb of Hazmiyeh , a crewman on the first tank playing a flute . |
| 4 | ‘ During 17 months I watched 180 people die of starvation and disease , ’ he added . |
| 5 | The cellular and biochemical changes which must be translated into behavioural processes such as memory formation must be precisely located in space and time , as the criteria with which I started this chapter have emphasized . |
| 6 | ‘ I rang that night shelter you were at this morning and the girl I spoke to told me you were on your way . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw two holes appear in the windscreen in front of me and I felt pain in my chest . |
| 8 | I saw one player push fans out of the way at the Australian Open this year . |
| 9 | I saw three men fall to the ground . |
| 10 | I was in the supermarket the other day and then this bloke , I saw this bloke pick up this massive bottle of er vinegar right , and he took the top off there was some old woman just going down the aisle and he just started pouring it all over her |
| 11 | Well I thought those fires get red hot . |
| 12 | " Then March came and I thought I cant tell her now , I 'm too far gone , she 'll go mad . " |
| 13 | ‘ I found our colonel in the phone book ; I remembered old Marks say he thought they might be a Cornish family . |
| 14 | no , we 're just talking about when I did last week remember when I went teaching last week and you went to Ian 's house did n't you ? |
| 15 | ‘ When I was his age I said contentious things like he did last week , but I did not speak English very well so I did not get into trouble . ’ |
| 16 | I said bloody hell do n't you dare bring him in ! |
| 17 | I had six I had five advertisers go in . |
| 18 | So I thought , in my wisdom I thought , there was easier way than that , wh at one bar and I had one rope come under the draw bar with a tow bar , so I said right one bit of rope , one bar , so all the docker got ta do now is take the bar out , take the rope off , that was alright and you could stow 'em on the , on the deck . |
| 19 | ( 9 ) I had two dogs die of snake bite . |
| 20 | The minimal pair in ( 5a ) and ( 5b ) provides further evidence of the meaning distinction : ( 5a ) I had nine people call . |
| 21 | ( 1b ) I had nine people call . |
| 22 | Er and I had three shillings change . |
| 23 | I had some guys come up , and they were , they were really pissed off with me because , my mum sort of like , this guy just done this with th th the stall next door , but he left some stuff that he obviously already had things of , which he did n't think it was worth him buying , and this guy came round , and they were obviously from one of these , you know how you get erm , secondhand erm record stores |
| 24 | I named a duck I had this letter come no no no no , I had this letter come , right , and it said now they 've got this duck and they did n't know what to call it and so Gemma said well I think erm Eileen , Auntie Eileen ought to name it so I , I was asked to name this duck . |
| 25 | I named a duck I had this letter come no no no no , I had this letter come , right , and it said now they 've got this duck and they did n't know what to call it and so Gemma said well I think erm Eileen , Auntie Eileen ought to name it so I , I was asked to name this duck . |
| 26 | You got some change have you ? |
| 27 | You know , say if they wanted to get you three C's and you got three A's shut up Sam ! |
| 28 | Well presumably would go back in the village and if you asked other villagers look how much has X grown on that bit of land they will tell you . |
| 29 | Many London families went ‘ hopping ’ in the summer months ; Margaret Wynne Nevinson recalled that when working as a rent collector ( with Beatrice Webb ) for the Dwellings Improvement Company in the East End , she found many flats empty in August and September for this reason . |
| 30 | She found two seats free not far from the Lorrimores and , putting herself on one chair and her handbag on the other , said with bonhomie to the elderly couple already occupying the table , ‘ I 'm Daffodil Quentin . |