Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I expended so much energy making it beautiful for you ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yes , and I , and I wiped down one side |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | During that time I made over 45 phone calls to vets , zoos , aquariums , fishkeepers , garden centres , and local authorities — all to no avail . |
| 8 | I made so much money , he went home grumblin' about someone fiddlin' his profits . |
| 9 | I made very little money , just enough to run my car . |
| 10 | " So I made this little bite for you myself . " |
| 11 | Consider in this connection the point I made earlier that comprehension is necessarily incomplete and dependent on purpose . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I realized then that nationalization , the great the great nationalization enterprise was simply state capitalism . |
| 15 | ‘ Out of the question or not , lad , I checked up first thing . |
| 16 | Eventually I checked out other guitar ads in the October issue . |
| 17 | We built a simple little device which could administer a mild shock to a chick held briefly in my hand — tested on my finger , the shock is no more than a brief tingle , and the chicks seemed scarcely to notice it — ; and I checked out Benowitz' finding . |
| 18 | Oh I got best bloody hand around ! |
| 19 | No , I got over this problem by collecting data on a large series of babies to whom I had access during the preliminary work on this project . |
| 20 | Erm indeed I saw him , I saw Ronnie once in a hotel in er in Washington , this was the time it was n't actually the time he was shot cos I got away that time but the |
| 21 | When I got up that morning I had no father . |
| 22 | Dear old Joe seemed just the same , but as I got better , he began to remember I was a gentleman , and call me sir again , and when I got up one morning , I discovered he had gone . |
| 23 | When I got up next morning , I said to her , ‘ Are you still proud of me ? ’ |
| 24 | She often opens conversations by telling people brightly : ‘ I got up this morning ’ , which seems to reflect her talent for being delighted by what is deeply ordinary . |
| 25 | ‘ I know who I was when I got up this morning , but I have changed so often since then . |
| 26 | I must say when I got up this morning I did n't feel much better than when I went to bed last night but there we are . |
| 27 | When I got up this morning , I nearly died ! |
| 28 | When I explained , I got even less sympathy : ‘ Of all the stupid things . |
| 29 | I got home that night full of excitement , a state which was quickly changed when my mother discovered that I was well and truly inundated with horse fleas . |
| 30 | Finally , speaking in a low voice , the boy said : ‘ There 's something you do n't know : dad told me this morning that he was in bed when I got home last night . ’ |