Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became intimately acquainted with some of those I met , and the lives and habits of many others naturally came under observation . |
| 2 | But as I became more acquainted with this set and stopped rushing from impossible passage to impossible passage , hoping against hope that at some point he would lose his balance and tumble like a second-rate trapeze artist off his swing , I was unwittingly dragged in to a more sinister , melancholic side to his playing . |
| 3 | Although I remain strongly opposed to any closer political or economic union with Europe , will my right hon. Friend accept that the leadership that he has shown at the Maastricht conference and his toughness in the negotiations clearly display that he is the only party leader competent to govern this country during the next few years ? |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I 'd just got opposite that poor woman 's house , and I glanced up at it . |
| 5 | I 'd rather taken against this woman — she was frightfully solid and know-it-all and not funny , you know — and to be difficult I asked her how she knew this , thinking that she would quote out of some boring manual or other . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd completely forgotten about that . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd already thought of that , ’ Laura told her gloomily . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd never suffered like that , not to the extent where tears were pouring down my face for no apparent reason . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd never thought of that , ’ replied Mcduff . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've got to hand it to you , Angel , I 'd never thought of that technique , ’ said Bunny with genuine admiration . |
| 11 | I 'd never thought like that before . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd only gone to that debate because my wife was a steward . ’ |
| 13 | I was only on the drug for seven days and by the seventh day , I 'd suddenly turned into some sort of maniac . |
| 14 | Wondering what on earth I 'd ever seen in that … that — for a moment the description failed her — that ruthless , dangerous stranger . |
| 15 | I felt somewhat thrown by this information , having assumed Sergei had simply made a mistake in the Christian name . |
| 16 | If finally I become wholly submerged in this solipsism there could be no other rational ethic for me than egoism . |
| 17 | I did n't thought of that |
| 18 | The meeting had been arranged with intense , frantic planning as to detail , with letters despatched by lawyers through couriers , paragraphs changed bo mutual request , assurances as to what I could say or not and , indeed , whether I could admit that I had even appeared on this day at the august offices of Olympia & York . |
| 19 | After a while I did something else I had n't done for several months : I began to rough out a poem . |
| 20 | At any rate the effect was the same as if I had n't written at all . |
| 21 | I just , I just honest to God I had n't realized at all the guy was sort of and says er oh it 's probably I said no I 'm sure I was really cheesed . |
| 22 | I had n't heard of that before . |
| 23 | I had n't heard of this ‘ tide of concern ’ that governments might over-react to the threat of global warming . |
| 24 | I had n't felt like this when I 'd seen him firing the shotgun . |
| 25 | Despite Schlesinger 's claims that ‘ there was n't anything in the movie that I had n't seen in some way somewhere ’ and ‘ one was always confronted by something worse on the streets than one was putting into the film ’ , they were attention-getting elements , unabsorbed into the texture of the film . |
| 26 | ‘ I must confess I had n't participated in any giant financial coups . |
| 27 | I had n't participated in any organization , but the experience of being a political prisoner soon changes your mind . |
| 28 | But I had n't looked at many other places . |
| 29 | And I , when I read it , I had n't looked at this , but I never thought it was really , I did n't sit there going |
| 30 | " I had n't thought about that , " said Agatha pensively . |