Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] and [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About four months before , a friend of mine got pregnant and she had to have an abortion , and I was quite upset about that . |
| 2 | It became out-of-hand and I had to stop Rose , for after all Miss Ironside was my guest and she was getting very angry and upset . |
| 3 | He got busted and they got done as well . |
| 4 | The skills needed are mostly those which our schooling found useless and it has atrophied them without irreparably damaging them . |
| 5 | He seemed depressed and we wanted to cheer him up . |
| 6 | Now on two cans of food a day plus biscuits and marrowbones , her coat became shiny and she seemed to have grown taller . |
| 7 | Dana loved luxury and she seemed to manage to surround herself with things Claudia could n't even dream of buying . |
| 8 | ‘ The Welsh name for the bridge over there , ’ said Beuno , gesturing , ‘ means ‘ the place where the milk was spilt ’ because one year the nuns ' cow went dry and they had to go down to the village to beg for some , and they got this far and then one of them dropped it . ’ |
| 9 | Only it went wrong and I got caught by the Russians . |
| 10 | It looked enticing and we decided to follow it as far as we could . |
| 11 | ‘ The days grew warm and I began to hop around the cage and try to fly again . |
| 12 | He went on staring , too , until her cheeks grew crimson and she began to stammer . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , ’ he began hesitantly , ‘ it all began when Una took sick and we had to get the doctor … ’ |
| 14 | What happened to us in our seven years at the grammar school was that we felt safe and we felt encouraged . |
| 15 | I was there a couple of weeks and the record business went bust and she had to close down . |
| 16 | My toes went gangrenous and I had to have an arterial bypass . |
| 17 | After dark he grew restless and they had to tie him up to stop him following the jackals which howled around the village at night . |
| 18 | She spoke in this way until the girl 's hand went limp and she seemed to have fallen into a doze . |
| 19 | Benjamin fell silent and we sat watching the guttering flame of the candle . |
| 20 | In his ten years with Intelligence he rose to the rank of colonel , but his superiors ' prejudice against his British ancestry and education became unbearable and he resigned to take up the post offered to him with UNACO . |
| 21 | The others took it up , humming or singing , and walked in time to it until old Donald got breathless and they had to saunter for a while . |
| 22 | ‘ Just one more thing before we become part of a crowd , Maria , ’ said Luke as the door slid shut and they began to move smoothly upwards . |