Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I checked out other guitar ads in the October issue . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Oh I got best bloody hand around ! |
| 4 | I got only wrong answer |
| 5 | Last time , a friend and I got extremely drunk waiting to hear Dukakis had lost , and when the final result came through , we must have misheard it ; certainly , we were quite surprised by the announcement that George Best had been elected president of the USA . |
| 6 | I used to take my daughter , Emma , to children 's parties and I wandered around Central Park quite a lot . |
| 7 | You will remember that I said that the general principles I proposed still left room for discretion and interpretation . |
| 8 | I used very dry elm . |
| 9 | So I could always go up there and I used there little drill for one thing and another in the first place and er built that premise for me there did and I did er |
| 10 | I described how previous experience gave me the skills needed for the post . |
| 11 | I ate off tiny silver plates , with silver knives and forks . |
| 12 | I woke up late afternoon sometime with a funny taste in my mouth . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought it would be good to be free to get on with my own affairs , ’ she said , ‘ but I suffered quite severe depression . |
| 14 | He was different from other men , I thought-a really good man ! |
| 15 | I walked up broad marble steps to a wide front porch screened by pre-cast fretted tiles . |
| 16 | I know it sounds crazy , but even as I watched this little boy , Jimbo , I thought I could actually see a muscle quiver . |
| 17 | To tackle the problem I needed more detailed information about the behaviour of the transformer-rectifier circuit , so I measured its d.c. output voltage at various currents and plotted the results on a graph ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 18 | I started off smoking hash ; from that I went to acid , LSD , speed , things like that . |
| 19 | I felt really hot mum this morning |
| 20 | I felt quite nervous undertaking this role in case I became ‘ out of my depth ’ and could n't provide the new mother with the support that she needed , either emotionally or physically , but on balance decided that the only way to find out was to give it a whirl ! |
| 21 | I wish I knew how reliable Pinder is … he 's so flaming emotional , with his fainting fits and his ‘ emanations of malevolence ’ . ' |
| 22 | I saw how strong electricity was . |
| 23 | I saw this little man who looked familiar : it was Chi Chi Rodriguez and he needed a caddie . |
| 24 | By the time 1972 was out I had found a Vets club in join , the VAC as it was called , and I began to pick up something about the scene — where to find the minor races , who to go to for training advice , the way to use blocks and how to seek out physios for repair purposes — and I took up steady training . |
| 25 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 26 | But I took very good care that we did n't . |
| 27 | Jerry Lee was a pill-eating , gun-slinging yahoo who shagged his boozed up 13-year-old cousin and made tangible all the horror and lawlessness that was implicit on the Elvis records . |
| 28 | ‘ I gave up front-line politics , yes . ’ |
| 29 | I replied rather coldly that I had not drunk alcohol since 1939 , and that it had been my hope that we should stop somewhere where I could wash up generally , relieve myself and have a little rest . |
| 30 | I had really long hair once , it was way past my bum and when I got my first record deal they wanted me to have it all cut off — it was a total disaster . |