Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found I wanted to include more and more of London within one frame . |
| 2 | She found she had torn most of the mourning band away from her sleeve and there was nothing for it but to pull it off entirely . |
| 3 | One knitter I know who found she 'd created this situation ( inadvertently , she admitted ) solved the problem by knitting epaulettes . |
| 4 | However , once the youngest had started school she found she wanted to do much more . |
| 5 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 6 | They found they had to aid each other to achieve coupling , or they would slip apart to achieve nothing . |
| 7 | And then I 'd I 'd had enough and then he started messing about and he started pushing the boxes down through my strapper then , course that messed the strapper up ! |
| 8 | Corbett noted she had lost some of her arrogance and was more watchful . |
| 9 | But er we did n't I did n't go back , we 'd already we 'd we 'd got some land and er and we 'd set up er pig breeding and er we 'd got about a hundred and twenty strong store pigs at that time . |
| 10 | Each person was given a blanket , but no food ; I suspect the soldiers assumed we had brought some with us . |
| 11 | All Nottingham was beautiful and along there 'd got great big flags and they 'd trimmed all Christmas they 'd they 'd sewed all Christmas things on them . |
| 12 | The children themselves appeared , and after a second summer spent playing at the M's farm , and becoming ‘ socialised ’ by contact with that family , it seemed they had made some progress . |
| 13 | I really believed he did love this suede . |
| 14 | Although self educated he had written many books and papers on science , philosophy and religion . |
| 15 | It seemed he had lost all interest in that too . |
| 16 | At a rural campaign stop in 1987 , she announced she wanted to address some distant onlookers . |
| 17 | Heather hit the headlines last week when we revealed she had dumped several pairs of her husband 's old socks , only to learn later he had hidden £500 in the sole of one . |
| 18 | And Dot had a sinking feeling because she realized she 'd known all along even though she had n't wanted to . |
| 19 | Suddenly she realized she had loved these last few months . |
| 20 | I had thought it all through ; I reckoned I had covered all possibilities . |
| 21 | Nurses claimed she had waited most of that time for an ambulance to take her to another hospital . |
| 22 | By the end of the year they reckoned they had released some 432 men , 180 wives , and 1,341 children . |
| 23 | Rain guessed what had caused such changes : the realization that her talent did not stretch very far ; the passing of a way of life which had been so thrilling ; impending old age with few friends , little money and no certainty of a roof over her head . |
| 24 | ‘ It was hell when I discovered you 'd left that morning without saying anything to me , not even an angry goodbye ! |
| 25 | Later we discovered she had hit some obstruction and lost an engine — hence her strange behaviour . |
| 26 | Anyway , they all sensed they had to make this work . |
| 27 | Swindon Crown Court heard they 'd consumed some 17 pints of beer . |
| 28 | Last year 's crop of court cases at the Old Bailey reported in national newspapers included : a French master who had a store of pornographic photos of teenage pupils dating back ten years ; a religious education master who simulated sexual intercourse in front of his pupils ( the Old Bailey heard he had done this little party trick dozens of times at different schools ) ; a primary school teacher who was allowed to go on teaching after being found guilty of ‘ lewd , indecent and libidinous practices ’ against ten- and 11-year old boys ; and a music teacher in Sussex who had raped , attempted to rape and indecently assaulted hundreds of girls over many years . |
| 29 | PENSIONER Charlie Hill was celebrating a £180 fruit-machine win yesterday when he heard he had scooped another £2 million-plus on the pools . |
| 30 | But when he heard what had happened that morning his face darkened and he turned angrily on Sam . |