Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I experienced my hands being numb and slightly swollen , then being pressed or clasped by an unseen force . |
| 2 | I there soon experienced my first dealings with corporal punishment . |
| 3 | When we made love that day in your room , and I experienced my own frailty , it shook me . |
| 4 | It was much later that I realized my subconscious tendency towards preferring complicated solutions , merely to demonstrate my clever mental logic . |
| 5 | I thought it was the other church , the one near the market , and I waited there till a quarter to twelve , and then I realized my mistake . |
| 6 | Certainly , when you realized my connection with the case at Bloomwater , they were the bully-boys you turned on to me . |
| 7 | I realized my mistake ; he 'd remember such generosity , and his boy would be able to describe me . |
| 8 | And er but it was only about half past five I did n't I never stopped till the I just kept going now tha well about half past four , I started to pack up and I realized my sandwiches were still in my snack box so I I 'd I 'd had one one earlier on whilst I was still working but yes the lady there she made us a couple of cups in the morning , er cu cup of coffee , I think about what yeah about half ten time but the time I painted a little bit and I thought oh I 'll stop and have a fag , with my coffee and I had a cup of tea later on in the afternoon but er I did n't stop , I kept going , you know and then course by time I got to my drink , it was cold it was cool , so you drink it straight down |
| 9 | I was gardening and he said er er I bent over to do something and he said I just went dizzy , he said , and I fell over he said and then I realized my right side was paralysed . |
| 10 | People of all shapes and sizes became my biggest threat and a vital potential source of assistance . |
| 11 | We had a large factory at Bournville employing about ten thousand people and there were a great many incentive payment schemes , so that became my job . |
| 12 | Tony was one of the undoubted stars of the review and became my invaluable right-hand man . |
| 13 | ‘ I did , and photography became my paint brushes . ’ |
| 14 | Himself became my warning by his fall . ’ |
| 15 | After Corrections I joined Picture Group in 1981 and for some reason I ended up doing a lot of work for them in the ghettos , guns , drugs and things like that ; it became my forte and I came to feel at ease in this kind of environment . |
| 16 | John Newsom , who later became my friend , endeared himself to headmasters by asserting the principle that as much freedom as possible in the running of schools should be delegated to heads — even although , or perhaps because , he well knew that many of them were rogues . |
| 17 | Our local library , Macdonald Road , Edinburgh , produced a book on fishing that became my firm favourite . |
| 18 | And so , from 1958 onwards , these characters became my dolls , and their way , of life and the houses they inhabited became so real to me that it was quite a shock when I occasionally returned to the place which had started it all , Wood Green , near Witney . |
| 19 | I saw the surgeon who became my surgeon . |
| 20 | The Boat-house became my roosting-place while under the shadow of the mighty mountain of the wind , ‘ Goat Fell . ’ |
| 21 | Turned upside down on the floor , it became my boat , my cart , a railway engine — it 's amazing what a child can make of a simple object in imagination . |
| 22 | Lincoln rapidly became my second favourite town , largely because of its fabulous cathedral . |
| 23 | He later became my protector , my minder , the brother who claimed that I , and I alone , was from the same mould . |
| 24 | Her brother was William Tallentire and he became my mother 's grandfather , which meant that my mother and father were akin . |
| 25 | A pro rack in a briefcase became my target . |
| 26 | I felt my parents ' anxieties about both their own and their children 's lives so keenly that they became my own , quite against my will , and I had to fight to reject them . |
| 27 | Writer Brian Clark gave me the persona of a middle-class , middle-aged professional with a wife problem and for a time it became my trademark . |
| 28 | Within the first month of my being involved with the gay movement I met Angus , who became my lover then and remained my lover for ten years . |
| 29 | She became my legal guardian . |
| 30 | At this point , and I 'm not sure how it happened , it became my turn to hold her up . |