Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of them became quite well known . |
| 2 | One or both of them got up early to make break&st in good time . |
| 3 | Beginning by a fantastic attempt to construct pedigrees where sons were their own fathers , I became gradually so involved that I remember wondering if God the Father were in truth only the child that grew up into Jesus Christ . |
| 4 | ‘ I think what I am trying to explain to you , ’ she said , ‘ is that over the years I became so completely cowed and dominated by this monster of an aunt that when she gave me an order , no matter what it was , I obeyed it instantly . |
| 5 | He did , and I heard him say , ‘ Well , at least I lived long enough to meet you , love . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I got pretty badly worked . |
| 7 | I got up early to say goodbye to him . ’ |
| 8 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 9 | Well I got up there started fucking going for it . |
| 10 | I I got really really fed up . |
| 11 | ‘ And I got close enough to count them as they rode past . |
| 12 | Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went . |
| 13 | There was a harshness to Inspector Drew 's questions , despite their quiet , almost conversational delivery , and I tried hard not to become uncomfortable under his eye . |
| 14 | I tried hard not to smile . |
| 15 | A pleasant change from the heat of Mespot , but with a deal of other diversions that I found easy enough to take . |
| 16 | I stopped long enough to recharge , then pedalled up the Arrow Valley , crossed a ridge of hills and then freewheeled all the way down to the largest second hand bookshop in the world at Hay-on-Wye . |
| 17 | I stopped there only to change trains . |
| 18 | I woke up suddenly feeling something cold and smooth pressing into my side . |
| 19 | I sauntered along attractively named Wine Street , then came to a bridge over the rushing River Garavogue . |
| 20 | the dining chairs , I 've had everything out at least I have n't cleaned the windows but , I was half way through , well I was almost finished , I 'd just just done the stairs though and Bernie came ! |
| 21 | And I 'd just about begun to believe him . |
| 22 | I 'd just about got a speech arranged when you announced that the afternoon had been no big deal ! ’ |
| 23 | I 'm expecting like a lights or something are flashing so I got the off the jet wash and I 'd just about got to the where I started again it 's gone bib bib bib bib bib is that it ? |
| 24 | My downhill skiing was a little rusty to say the least , but a few too many moons ago I 'd just about cracked parallel turns , and I felt in need of a brush up . |
| 25 | A sort of chess-game with death I 'd rather unexpectedly won . |
| 26 | I 'd pretty much made up my mind that they had to be forced into action , but it was such a difficult decision . |
| 27 | My understanding of the case was that I 'd not yet found a remedy to cover the fibroid as well as everything else so I chose Phosphorus LM1 from the rubric bleeding fibroids since it covered her fears and complemented the Arsenicum . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd not even seen Leanne for about four months and then she was with him , but I got half my arm blown away . ’ |
| 29 | I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's . |
| 30 | No , I 'd definitely not seen the man coming out of the lift before . |