Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked both bodies to get together if they needed further information from British Coal they should secure it . |
| 2 | As a child I overheard two women talking . |
| 3 | Any more than that I wasted five minutes reading his articles ? |
| 4 | Planning for the fateful flight started several weeks earlier when I made tentative arrangements to visit a microlight manufacturer at Membury airfield in Berkshire for the review of the Chevron which appears in this issue . |
| 5 | My son spent a year at Liphook Junior School , during which time my husband and I made frequent visits to discuss our concerns regarding this apparent lack of progress . |
| 6 | I made violent splashes to attract his attention ; he circled until a rescue launch picked me up , some 30 to 45 minutes later . |
| 7 | Back that the al-Rasheed hotel , where I was staying , I made sporadic efforts to escape this undercurrent of hysteria . |
| 8 | Loving in truth , and fain in verse my love to show , That she ( dear she ) might take some pleasure of my pain ; Pleasure might cause her read , reading might make her know ; Knowledge might pity win , and pity grace obtain ; I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe , Studying investions fine , her wits to entertain ; Oft turning others ' leaves , to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburnt brain . |
| 9 | So er I 've got some , I got them curtains , I got blue curtains to go out |
| 10 | Well I rang them up yesterday because I got two cheques left . |
| 11 | ‘ We had some players on expensive long-term contracts that we could n't afford , while I got some players to agree to wage cuts , ’ he explained . |
| 12 | I got those buttons did you this morning ? |
| 13 | I tried three times to get in but was beaten back by flames . ’ |
| 14 | Back at The Milebrook I found two letters waiting for me . |
| 15 | On the other hand , I found some feminists justified this style as something that ‘ suits women better ’ or ‘ gets away from male ways of speaking ’ . |
| 16 | The game was all ticket but I found little problems obtaining a ticket , going down Friday lunchtime and obtaining a spare ticket from a Southampton supporter . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I helped those men to kill Riccio , and now the Earl of Moray is back here with them ! |
| 19 | Blair crept down to the bank whilst I rehearsed various reasons to explain why he had not caught the trout : lack of experience , bad casting technique . |
| 20 | I used many things to make them cane and dowling and metal coathangers and aluminium tent-poles , and paper and plastic sheeting and dustbin bags and sheets and string and nylon rope and twine and all sorts of little straps and buckles and bits of cord and elastic bands and strips of wire and pins and screws and nails and pieces cannibalised from model yachts and various toys . |
| 21 | I used little shells to represent the people in the town , as usual . |
| 22 | Then I used to go dancing down at down the and I 'd strict orders to get in on a Saturday night early , but it was always eleven o'clock walking on my own back . |
| 23 | Walking along with a friend one evening , near Leicester Square , I noticed two men arguing with each other . |
| 24 | In Athens , where I was competing alongside Nigel Walker and Lesley-Ann Skeet , two of our best hurdlers , I noticed some spots appearing here and there on my body , but as they did n't bother me , I ignored them . |
| 25 | At first , I thought it was spilt wine but then it spread and I noticed little splashes coming down from the ceiling above . |
| 26 | The Danakil guide we had acquired at Bilen had tried to bolt on the march , so I detailed two soldiers to guard him till dawn . |
| 27 | My cynicism about the event burgeoned as I walked past stalls displaying rustic-effect patio furniture , cushion covers embroidered with pheasants , and the kind of waxed country overwear that is increasingly seen sported by commuters on the tube these days . |
| 28 | Keith , accordingly , had a commission made out , but , as the admiral complained , ‘ behold he had not passed , I ordered three captains to examine him , he declined to go , consequently I was obliged to tear the-commission ’ . |
| 29 | Linda and I spent two hours riding around Villa Maura later in the week trying to find the site . |
| 30 | I spent two hours responding to questions put to me by the Select Committee only a fortnight or so ago . |