Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father 's regime , illegal fortunes , I hasten to add . |
| 2 | He told her to fetch a pencil and paper and when she brought them scribbled down several sentences in capital letters . |
| 3 | I am pleased to say that later in life , Ralph and I became very close friends . |
| 4 | But the problem I became very angry years ago with that because , I mean Irish Close and we had the three of you we found that she 'd , she just kept on telling us off . |
| 5 | And I expended so much energy making it beautiful for you ! ’ |
| 6 | So when we were there in London I asked around several centers for rehabilitating women and I struck lucky . |
| 7 | He appeared to be completely at sea again when I asked why primary schools in Scotland were excluded from the Bill , and did not seem to know that Scottish primary schools had been excluded . |
| 8 | The other day , when a new silver dinner service was commissioned for 10 Downing Street , I asked how much silver could be bought for a million pounds , which seemed a suitably round number . |
| 9 | I asked how many responses had been received because we knew , from the responses that we had received , that the vast majority of the people of Ayrshire are totally opposed to the opting out of Ayrshire South hospital . |
| 10 | At the Tour 's A.G.M. last year , I asked how many players had been fined that season for slow play . |
| 11 | Through the Second Son I asked as many questions as I thought sensible and it did n't sound like any malaria I had ever heard of . |
| 12 | Of course , I avoided so much work , going out to the bloody square on Tower Hill to gawk at the gore-drenched platform where the Great Ones of the land had their heads cut off . |
| 13 | Yes , and I , and I wiped down one side |
| 14 | I read only last week , for instance , that the N S P C C is suffering severely from the recession and higher running costs , and I 'm sure they 're not alone . |
| 15 | I mean I tried , tried to er er done it in my book about my again and I read about two pages and I fell asleep . |
| 16 | I did n't have any more whiskey as I needed to think , so I made even more tea and settled on the chair again by the fire , lit a cigarette and started to work my way through the file again . |
| 17 | During that time I made over 45 phone calls to vets , zoos , aquariums , fishkeepers , garden centres , and local authorities — all to no avail . |
| 18 | I made so much money , he went home grumblin' about someone fiddlin' his profits . |
| 19 | I made so many errors on my backhand trying to put too much into every shot , ’ she said . |
| 20 | I made so many mistakes about you . |
| 21 | the er children 's television show they they occasionally show a Newfoundland pulling a boat , well now that 's the film that I made about ten years ago and this Newfoundland pulled in the boat . |
| 22 | Living , as I did then , in the country seldom coming into London , I made only rare visits to the crammed and cramped little shop , and sought , as always , something that was out of print , lost , or printed the year before , . |
| 23 | I made very little money , just enough to run my car . |
| 24 | " So I made this little bite for you myself . " |
| 25 | Consider in this connection the point I made earlier that comprehension is necessarily incomplete and dependent on purpose . |
| 26 | ‘ I averaged about five queers a day . |
| 27 | If we have the same amount of cold weather this winter as we had last winter , we will more or less double the coverage of the benefit as a result of the changes that I announced earlier this year . |
| 28 | It was only long after her death that I realized how much anger lay under my acceptance of that responsibility and how much energy I had used holding that down . |
| 29 | I realized then that nationalization , the great the great nationalization enterprise was simply state capitalism . |
| 30 | It was only when I was in secondary school and took notice of the relationship of children of my age were with their parents and families , that I realised how other people behaved . |