Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I suddenly found I had quite a lot of projects going on , working for Kenny Rogers and Jimmy Ruffin … |
| 2 | It might , but if say we said over a year , and we said there 're a total number of fifteen members of staff , |
| 3 | ‘ I would have said we had quite a number of things to discuss , my darling , ’ Luke contradicted her , the endearment a taunt and a challenge as always , never meant . |
| 4 | Twenty-six-year-old Yasmin says it took about a year and a great deal of hard work to get her figure back into shape , so she knows she 'll have a hard task in front of her after the birth of her second baby . |
| 5 | I know I went quite a way down . |
| 6 | No I was n't there I was in Switzerland but it was quite nice because they had carte blanche they have some preview of it you know you had like a band playing |
| 7 | ‘ I heard she got quite a reaction , did n't she ? ’ he wheezes and chuckles slyly , disingenuously , before getting serious . |
| 8 | Aye well this man that I ke know he had quite a lot of money and he just gave a six pence to the kirk , and he had always plenty of money when he died . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ said the young man modestly , ‘ I suppose I had quite a reputation . |
| 10 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , ’ she said carefully , ‘ as I believe I intimated just a moment ago , I 'm just about to leave . ’ |
| 11 | Erm but I mean they went away a couple of weeks ago down to where Dave 's brother was buried in Isle of Wight |
| 12 | I did water-colours mostly but I 'd just started painting in oils and felt I had quite a talent for it , but they were n't very encouraging … |
| 13 | she 'd never seen anything like it , but I think we had quite a lot of new furniture did n't we ? |
| 14 | And I think it sort of paid off in making people feel in the town during the year that they had a mayor , that the ceremonial actually meant something and related to them , and certainly I still find tremendous numbers of people who sort of come along and invite you to things — people who before would have probably said ‘ Oh it 's a waste of money ’ , and I think we did quite a lot to change that attitude . |
| 15 | And certainly I still find tremendous numbers of people who sort of come along and invite you to things , people who before would have probably said , ‘ Oh , it 's a waste of money , ’ and I think we did quite a lot to , to change that attitude . |
| 16 | People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in . |
| 17 | Actually , I think he did quite a lot for gay understanding , to not wrap up those characters he played at all . |
| 18 | Finding it caused quite a stir in the brass band world . |
| 19 | Police who put her on a train said she got home a day after her husband … and ‘ in a foul mood . ’ |