Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They reduced nausea and prevented vomiting , and many of them made people sleepy . |
| 2 | I asked Cal if it did n't make her feel like a baby . |
| 3 | I asked people if th if they would like a complimentary copy of the Saga magazine and all their brochures and they can do so by er , members like myself we 're asked from time to time , do we know any friends who would like a copy ? |
| 4 | I made £9 profit the first year ! |
| 5 | I made £700 from it . |
| 6 | But Pete , I may be a bit of a shit mysel' and not exactly a paragon of virtues , and mebbee I 'm not what I made people think I was , but that does n't mean that it is n't true — ; the greed of the bourgeoisie , the oppression , the need to show it up for what it is . |
| 7 | So I made £70 a week . |
| 8 | My wife and I met people of all ages and nationalities ; we particularly appreciated the enthusiastically-friendly and helpful staff . |
| 9 | I 'd left school in 1976 , I was unemployed and it all happened through a drama group at the Royal Court Theatre where I met people who were out . |
| 10 | But then I met people like André , people in that world who recognised my beauty and that kind of validated me . |
| 11 | I walked along , trembling with anger and misery , not through the London of beautiful houses and clean streets that I 'd dreamed of , where people wore only elegant , expensive clothes , nor between buildings that soared into the clouds , but in the darkness past trees planted at infrequent intervals and council houses with their unlit windows , all alike ; I passed people asleep , protected from the cold in cardboard boxes , and rubbish in untidy heaps or neatly tied up in black plastic bags and empty milk bottles with traces of sour milk lingering in them , and I marvelled once again that the dairies were trusting enough to leave them lying about . |
| 12 | I got £6.50 , or rather less than a fiver after deductions . |
| 13 | I got £28.30 altogether before from social security when I was seventeen . |
| 14 | Having made a collection myself in a depressed area , I got £2.30 in total . |
| 15 | We had Friday afternoons off and for that job I got £16 a week . " |
| 16 | Er in other words , er when I was fifteen I got sixpence a week extra and a little more from the man I worked with . |
| 17 | If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence . |
| 18 | I got people the wrong way ! |
| 19 | after Easter cos I got people have most go in work experience and I did n't get a place after Easter like . |
| 20 | I got people s stepping on my feet , I was , I was practically screaming . |
| 21 | When I was eighteen I got £33.70 . |
| 22 | ( I did not earn , as Leslie imagined , three times his pay : in fact I got £200 a year , out of which I paid a pound a week income tax , a guinea a week for billeting , five shillings for transport , and the cost of meals at the cafeteria at Bletchley . |
| 23 | And I listed Cal 's results , exactly . |
| 24 | I found wildfowl more fascinating than wildfowlers . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , I found people extremely concerned about their school , and almost — but not quite — unanimous in their assertion that school closure would damage the life of the community . |
| 26 | I found buddleia only once ; instead large amounts of crab apple and elder ( Sambucus nigra ) , and frequently hawthorn and bramble ( Rubus fruticosus ) , characterised the woody vegetation . |
| 27 | ‘ I promised Mach I 'd bring something back . |
| 28 | what I most often heard when I phoned people a couple of days in was that it 's been the worst two days of my life ! |
| 29 | I mean , I seen people |
| 30 | I weighed 8st 7lbs ( 54kg ) , when this picture was taken on holiday in 1985 . |