Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told her to fetch a pencil and paper and when she brought them scribbled down several sentences in capital letters . |
| 2 | So when we were there in London I asked around several centers for rehabilitating women and I struck lucky . |
| 3 | mum , I read out all these school names , see if you know what they are , |
| 4 | After I 'd done that I made up some new bombs to replace the ones I 'd used the day before , and a few extra besides . |
| 5 | The forecast from Livorno has spoken of increasing winds and I laid out all the chain before we rowed ashore ( feeling curiously British and eccentric using oars among so many outboards ) for the pasta and wine we had been promising ourselves since mid-morning . |
| 6 | The ways in which I lived out this my own appropriate identity within this vocation were diverse . |
| 7 | So I lent out some of his books , and they straight away came back and said , ‘ He 's not Irish , he 's Scottish . ’ |
| 8 | Each morning started off with me trying to find enough small change to get something to eat , and gradually , I sold off all my army kit at government surplus stores to finance my drinking . |
| 9 | Actually I checked out all about |
| 10 | ‘ I checked out some files concerning Munro yesterday . |
| 11 | No , I got over this problem by collecting data on a large series of babies to whom I had access during the preliminary work on this project . |
| 12 | When I got up that morning I had no father . |
| 13 | so when I got up half past six and I got shaved now at last , gon na go and get ready and pull the curtains back , oh what a of rain , I says oh I says |
| 14 | She often opens conversations by telling people brightly : ‘ I got up this morning ’ , which seems to reflect her talent for being delighted by what is deeply ordinary . |
| 15 | ‘ I know who I was when I got up this morning , but I have changed so often since then . |
| 16 | I must say when I got up this morning I did n't feel much better than when I went to bed last night but there we are . |
| 17 | When I got up this morning , I nearly died ! |
| 18 | I got round this potential danger of tonal contrasts by ensuring that I was near enough to the boat to see it mainly in its own shadows ( figure XX ) , thus reducing the glare of white , and thereby allowing a less contrasting tonal interplay between boat and background . |
| 19 | Without any apparent break in the text and without any change of tone in my voice I got out some of the things I so badly needed to tell you . |
| 20 | I honked up this morning . |
| 21 | I honked up this morning . |
| 22 | Cos I found out that the hard way . |
| 23 | I found out all about it . |
| 24 | ‘ But then I found out all the others were too — Barbra Streisand and Gene Kelly , the director , ’ he said . |
| 25 | I found out all I could about the various parties including the Fascist party . |
| 26 | I found out some erm some gossip on what da , Sunday do you remember Kate ? |
| 27 | Some arsehole right is going to pick up and say oh well I phoned up this and y'know and then phoned the bloody managing director |
| 28 | I phoned up this week just to say I 'm getting on with it and they sort of like she said she 'd |
| 29 | I phoned up some more umm schools . |
| 30 | And then : ‘ I possess a stone head by Modigliani which I would not part with for a hundred pounds even at this crisis : and I routed out this head from a corner sacred to the rubbish of centuries and was called stupid for my pains in taking it away . |