Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |
| 2 | The references that I made were not to Labour party documents but to papers published by the chambers of commerce . |
| 3 | I think that as professional drivers we would all w look at that and s and see that Er I mean been out with very many lorry drivers and er that is the way that I 've sort of been with the majority of the guys that I 've been in . |
| 4 | Just got erm , I mean was out in the stick I like to just half a dozen little flight of stairs perhaps with a dozen steps |
| 5 | if one 's like it the other 's like it as long as that 's hanging there untouched there 's quite , quite safe , I mean were n't worth it |
| 6 | The very ecosystem I inhabited was also to be one of products , striving against built-in obsolescence to individuate themselves , using whatever human means were at their disposal to advance their branded species . |
| 7 | The last one I got is not in there . |
| 8 | I hate being here with on my own on a Saturday . |
| 9 | I tend to favour the idea that people who have not been out of business too long could probably play a valuable role , although I accept that , if someone has been out of active business life for two or three years , his contacts and awareness of up-to-date affairs may have changed . |
| 10 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 11 | I 'd been right about the biological cleaners . |
| 12 | I 'd been right about Lloyd 's two-tone shoes though I had expected him to put socks on , and I was wrong about the hat — it was a white Panama . |
| 13 | I 'd been right in thinking that he was n't seriously hurt , and they soon had him well again . |
| 14 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 15 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 16 | Within an hour of sitting down at my old desk , reading through my old files and shouting at my not so old secretary I felt as if I 'd been away from work for maybe just a week 's holiday . |
| 17 | But when we moved in here , because I 'd been away from him for five months and I 'd learned to cope for myself , I started standing up for myself and he did n't like it . |
| 18 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 19 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 20 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 21 | You had to appear in front of them , well this , I 'd been off for a week and the old Harbourmaster old he sent for me and he said erm , you can start work tomorrow as I . |
| 22 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 23 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 24 | no , I forgot well see I forgotten and I 'd been down to Boots an all I , aunty Mary had them once , one time and said |
| 25 | Yeah , well I 'd been out to the bin and er , he was just sort of erm by the ground by the bin bags the wood round the corner and er then he was sort of coming and he was like dying to come and have a stroke but |
| 26 | I 'll tell you a lovely story when we had the Queen at the day before when we had had the dress rehearsal I 'd been out to erm London to pick erm up an old lady who 's now dead , who very seldom got out and was pretty well house-bound to come and see the rehearsal as a little Sunday treat |
| 27 | After all , I 'd been out of the Army a full six weeks by then . |
| 28 | It was the first time I 'd been out of the cell since 15 May . |
| 29 | But you had to have qualified for it by working , see ? end of the week and the only place I ever had one was at and because the foreman approached me , I 'd been out of work and got the job by writing to it , going to the library and it was in one of the London papers , they wanted men for the tool rooms . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd been out of town . |