Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 2 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
| 3 | ‘ It was n't because I saw some guy and said , ‘ Hey , he gets a lot of girls , ’ or I saw some guy and said , ‘ Man , I want to be that guy , ’ because there 's no-one on earth I want to be . |
| 4 | Jerry looked up to me as his hero ; the rapport and affinity between him and me transcended all things ; with us it was true brotherly love , which exists to this day , with no ulterior motives … no payments … no conditions . |
| 5 | Father-in-law and me soldiered six weeks to restore it looks now . |
| 6 | Then I used to go dancing down at down the and I 'd strict orders to get in on a Saturday night early , but it was always eleven o'clock walking on my own back . |
| 7 | He moved away and I popped another frame and he punched me — ‘ No , you do n't take it . ’ |
| 8 | As Mr Charles , our chief male nurse and I passed each other on our way to and from the admission ward and our offices we had first one and then another sorry tale to tell . |
| 9 | Loud bangs started upstairs and I imagined all kinds of things were happening . |
| 10 | I was the criminal , in and out of prison all my life , and I got fourteen years on the prison-ship . |
| 11 | Yeah , downstairs , Clara and erm and one just carried on going straight and I got seventeen things that I can eat |
| 12 | I put two pounds in the machine up there and I got fifteen pounds , I got the three bars , er , not the three , two bars and some nudges and I nudged it |
| 13 | And I got thirty pound twenty five for it . |
| 14 | Yeah , and I got four Rottweilers . |
| 15 | I put a couple of quid in and I got four pounds something cos er went and bought some fags out of the machine and then I got the er the brown note flashing , from ten P so I stopped I have stopped . |
| 16 | I have to record loads of tapes , no no not just these ones and I got other ones at home , I 've got have a bath , I 've got clean up my bedroom and you know . |
| 17 | And I got new trainers . |
| 18 | And I got two polo necks one with slight ribs in . |
| 19 | I I saw it somewhere and I got lost track of it . |
| 20 | Well , I went home and I got another job and it , then I went back , I says can I have me card ? |
| 21 | and I got some fruit up the market on Friday . |
| 22 | there was this er butchers , and I went in there and I got some sausages , oh , er nobody said anything about these sausages I just thought well I 'd better take something back for Fred 's dinner so I went in and got these sausages , well they were the nicest sausages I 've ever tasted in my life |
| 23 | I set fire to a barn , not realising that there was a sick cow in there that perished , and I got three years ’ approved school . |
| 24 | When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre . |
| 25 | pullover and I got those socks for Tony . |
| 26 | I said I 'll ha take one pair and er the lady 's called Irene , she 's had the shop for years and years mum always gets and I got those stockings for you |
| 27 | My flat had a sitting room , bedroom , bathroom and kitchen , looking over a tree-lined courtyard , and I got 3 meals a day every day including Sunday . |
| 28 | Anyhow I went out and I got this baby nest shawl thing |
| 29 | And er when it come to the election of a shop steward about in ni nineteen er I think it were nineteen twenty seven , it were nineteen twenty seven er I there were two hundred in our shop and I got elected shop steward , mainly I think because a lot more , most did n't did n't want to be bothered you know but anyway I I and so that 's what I retained . |
| 30 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |