Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , I realized I needed evidence myself if I were to risk cals about their success . |
| 2 | Then we were walking back towards the carriage , and as we passed I heard Mr Jonesy say to the preacher , ‘ I 'll give 'im the devil when I get 'im 'ome . ’ |
| 3 | So I got I got Friday to pay and that 's ten months . |
| 4 | I got I got carbon dioxide given off |
| 5 | I Children 's World and I got I got books . |
| 6 | Yeah , but sometimes you , I go , got I told dad about this lad , got this this lad , he 's crazy and that keeps , keeps erm joking and everything , running around acting a right fool like yo , and that ! |
| 7 | A spokesman explained yesterday : ‘ Whoever designed them had knowledge of classical architecture . |
| 8 | Only as the car approached them did Ludens think he glimpsed a figure standing in the shade under a tree . |
| 9 | The earnings of those who provided them pushed things a step further . |
| 10 | I mean when I moved I had stuff in here before the upstairs was used , I had it for about a year or so , before I opened it up . |
| 11 | As I approached I heard shop shutters shooting up , greetings being exchanged , children and dogs being admonished . |
| 12 | ‘ I was heartbroken when I found I had MS : it seemed the end of all my hopes and dreams , of my career and possibly of marrying and having children . ’ |
| 13 | or I found I preferred men instead . ’ |
| 14 | And er he er he used I used Mother used to send me with the tea to the to the church to the churchyard to father . |
| 15 | There was an urgency about the way he moved which caught Alice 's attention , but it was her husband who spoke first . |
| 16 | It was in 1763 that an event occurred which led Watt radically to improve the efficiency of Newcomen type steam engines . |
| 17 | She took the lift up to the sixth floor and came to the room one O nine , which was her room , as she entered she noticed cobwebs and dampness on the walls , she flung her bed , bags on the bed and went downstairs to supper , after her supper she went to report , she went to the reception desk to report the cobwebs and dampness , she rang the bell a few times but no one answered , she was just about to go back to her room when she heard Mr Sandy the receptionist in the back room talking to her assistant , I put the body in Miss Hall 's wardrobe , Jane ran upstairs and sure enough there was a body , Jane rang the police then straight away , please could you come to the Riverside Hotel , there 's something I think you should see , there was a knock at the door and Mr Sandy answered it , hello , oh hello we 've just had phone call from here , are you sure this is the right hotel ? |
| 18 | Unfortunately , when the time came to devour the cakes , she found she had difficulty in eating hers because of its hardness . |
| 19 | All at once she had to notch her belt tighter , found she had hipbones , cheekbones , found her breasts were round and firm . |
| 20 | She screwed her eyes up and pretended she saw evening coming on . |
| 21 | ‘ With the previous pans we used you had 22lbs of chips ready at one time and about half way through you tended to lose the quality because some of the chips would get sweaty . |
| 22 | The fact that the people involved who killed Chai in the snackbar fight were mostly ‘ unemployed youths ’ , seemed to emphasise for the young intellectuals the disrespect for knowledge prevalent in a money-orientated society . |
| 23 | Cos the mortgages and that but there 's a lot of them , and kids causing it , and Christmas was coming well you know we just , that 's when they helped us at Christmas was really fantastic yes , true I never thought anything really out of this world how the how the people helped We got toys and everything for the kids ' Christmas , everything you could think of . |
| 24 | Then he dedicated his life to music and the pursuit of women , and we found we had things in common . |
| 25 | In this study only 1 in 5 of the farms visited maintained they liked evening courses and received as much benefit from them as from day courses . |
| 26 | ‘ It is n't a silly little thing to me , ’ almost shouted her incensed husband . |
| 27 | And these were the positive ones and , remember , they come from within the ‘ old age ’ field itself where , incidentally , two groups reported they had retirement ages for their own committees . |
| 28 | ‘ The whole nature of that part of the market is that as soon as the insurers found they had claims , they stopped the product rather than trying to build the book sensibly , ’ says Caroline Blackman . |
| 29 | As he made for the door he heard the phone ringing in the hall and when he entered he saw Joe turn from the telephone table towards him , saying , ‘ It 's for you , Martin . |
| 30 | As it turned out , Kurt Stengel who designed it worked day and night to get the image just right . |