Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a systematic study of his own dream life Freud tried to relate all his dreams to feelings and thoughts experienced the previous day . |
| 2 | A new version of another old favourite was : ‘ Rudolph the red-faced banker , /Made a very big mistake , / Tried to screw all his clients , /Something they refused to take . ’ |
| 3 | Huge queues formed outside shops as people tried to spend all their savings before they were devalued . |
| 4 | I knew I needed some place to go inside myself — frighten people off — so I shoved three tapes and my Walkman in the middle of the bag beside the big fat envelope where I 'd squeezed all my dreams . |
| 5 | But in any case I 'd chucked all me things in the cemetery , you know , and that 's so when they caught up with me I had n't got any newspapers . |
| 6 | By that time she 'd absorbed all her allowances , therefore it did n't matter whether she 'd |
| 7 | . I thought you 'd written all your cards Arf ? |
| 8 | people this year , if they 'd done all their Christmas shopping mail order . |
| 9 | See th this is what I 'm saying , you 'd done all them hours and then you was at it again on the weekend . |
| 10 | The Irishmen , if they had any cattle left , used to drive them into the street ; and they 'd carry on bargaining with the farmers under a street lamp ; and when the police came along they 'd move further on to another lamp until they 'd sold all their cattle . ’ |
| 11 | She 'd needed all her courage then , to stand over him and introduce herself ; to refuse to be sent away , to admit that she had come to Geneva in vain . |
| 12 | Whatever it was , it seemed to require all your attention and I understood that I was to go . |
| 13 | Also when we was giving this demonstration for the people in Bloxwich for the , our unit in King George 's playing fields , we 'd got all our weaponry on , on , on show what we 'd got Vickers machine gun , the Brownings rifles this anti-tank bomb anti-tank tube , whatever you li gun , whatever you like to call it , but also we 'd got what , what was termed a bucket bomb . |
| 14 | And I 'd got all me bits , different books out preparing for the crucifixion . |
| 15 | unless you have a base to work off of started to do , once we started doing the er , the walls take the scaffold down out of the way and to release some area off our stock pile we decided to back build so that by the time that we 'd done six tanks we 'd got half our area taken up by all that material excavated and just flip back to the drawing here what 's going to happen is that stockpile here . |
| 16 | Suddenly Graham , whom I 'd known all my life , was different . |
| 17 | Especially not someone he 'd known all his life . |
| 18 | In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad . |
| 19 | ‘ The highlanders , ’ testified one Jacobite present , ‘ though faint with hunger and ready to drop down with fatigue and want of sleep , seemed to forget all their hardships at the approach of the enemy . |
| 20 | Bruno felt perfectly happy in that bed ; he seemed to forget all his worries . |
| 21 | Shocked at her lack of morals and the ease with which he 'd reduced all her defences to nothing , Meredith moaned and tried to push him away . |
| 22 | The concept of narcissism had been developed , in part , through work with patients who seemed to withdraw all their libido into themselves , and had no interest in any things or people in the external world . |
| 23 | Robson was ruled out after a week-long struggle to overcome a niggling calf injury in the hope of helping United put right their Wembley disappointment in last year 's final , when they surprisingly succumbed to Second Division Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 24 | As he said himself , with something of a mixed metaphor : ‘ The baby seemed to have all its parts but was liable to fall to pieces in the hand . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ She seemed to have sleep-walked her way up to the Monument . ’ |
| 26 | Carrie said , thinking of the things Hepzibah had told her , how he 'd worked all his life and had no help from anyone , and he looked at her with surprise . |
| 27 | I 'd taken all my clothes off |
| 28 | Ruth and Naomi , they 'd lost all their possessions and the most prominent member of the family was a man called Boaz |
| 29 | She 'd lived all her life with this dreadful illness . |
| 30 | The love of Leonora 's life was sailing , and during the summer months she spent her Sundays on the water at the local reservoir , weeknights at the tennis club or the cinema , and in the winter she took part in as many activities as possible in the small town where she 'd lived all her life . |