Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a child I kept an unending diary ; as a student in Louisiana I wrote some tv news scripts ( and damaged the teleprompt during a live transmission , which put an end to that little job ) ; back home I produced beautifully worded advertisements for a local free paper . |
| 2 | People I met never became friends , people never spoke in those days at all , in fact , I found that if you did try to speak they always ran away . |
| 3 | I got home to find Kenneth hunched over his desk engrossed in a pile of newly purchased books on the subject of lymphoma and a medical dictionary to help him understand the terminology . |
| 4 | A little awkwardly she explained , ‘ I was going to wait until I got home to tell Paul that our engagement was a mistake . |
| 5 | ‘ The letter I got back brought tears to my eyes , ’ he says . |
| 6 | The Pentland Firth and Scapa Flow , Lerwick and Sullom Voe were soon as familiar as the south coast and the Solent had become in the past , but familiarity would never make us treat these places with anything but respect and I tried never to take chances . |
| 7 | Then I moved BOTH point cam into position on the left side . |
| 8 | I phoned up put Maggie on t' phone , told her sa tell her what this bloke had said and , they said , just a minute , that they 'll get in touch wi insurance and phone us back . |
| 9 | I wandered off to find Jack Mason and my parents and saw Toby , who was obviously heading for the Press tent , the conference with the winner , and several post-tournament drinks . |
| 10 | ‘ The way I behaved certainly gave rise to a bit of drama , from time to time . |
| 11 | And I stopped up to watch snooker and it went on until after twelve |
| 12 | I learnt how to make shoes out of brown paper . |
| 13 | I agree that I have been reinforced ( although I 'm not sure that I learnt how to make coffee by operant conditioning — I suspect I copied someone , or was told how to do it — but that is a separate issue ) . |
| 14 | I learnt how to make fish , and fruit , and a piece of meat out of wood and coloured paper . |
| 15 | The artist had fussed around while the thing was being loaded on my ship , babbling about how important it was and how delicate it was and so on , until I 'd just stopped listening . |
| 16 | Coincidentally I 'd just told Malcolm that I was a bass player — although at this point I was only mucking around by myself at home — so Malcolm told them . |
| 17 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 18 | I 'd just left school . |
| 19 | At that point I 'd just left St Martin 's . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd just finished treatment for a drug problem and Paul was getting over valium addiction . |
| 21 | On that particular day I I was coming home from work and it were quarter to nine , I 'd just finished work . |
| 22 | I 'd just won Wimbledon and wanted a lot of action , but there was nothing and nobody . |
| 23 | I only stopped working frenziedly hour after hour after I met the English boy I 'd just thrown water over moments before . |
| 24 | Xanthe spread out the soft folds of her skirt and looked at them as Miranda quickly splashed water into her armpits , round her neck , on her face , muttering , ‘ I wish I 'd just had time to wash my hair . ’ |
| 25 | I 'd momentarily lost sight of what a fast worker you are . ’ |
| 26 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn . |
| 28 | But I was glad that I 'd finally had sex — it was a way of proving that my parents and Uncle Joe had n't destroyed my life . |
| 29 | I 'd also recorded Neil Kinnock 's speech after his count and I managed to freeze the frame on the exact moment when she almost cried as he paid tribute to his wife for her dignity under the onslaught of the tabloid press . |
| 30 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |