Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it arrogant to compare New York and Cologne ; it 's true nothing became so inflated here , but also things were not so colourful , so deep . |
| 2 | Everyone got happily drunk together and a good time was had by all ; so long as the band kept the beat , what they played was immaterial . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm relieved to see slow-dancing with me has n't turned out to be the traumatic experience you obviously feared . ’ |
| 4 | Diving to me has never seemed particularly energetic , and certainly one does n't swim at speed when sports diving . |
| 5 | And another of them has just come out after doing time for burglary . ’ |
| 6 | Nothing has ever looked less inspired or more unready for action . |
| 7 | Despite a massive PR job by Buckingham Palace , it looks like nothing has really changed as far as Charles and Di are concerned ! |
| 8 | I du n no I 'd I 'd probably listen to it but I 'd I 've never gone out and bought any of them . |
| 9 | I mean just read round for fun yo and see if there 's anything that sticks and if you get chance to use it in an exam , do Okay , then it says develop a stock of gems . |
| 10 | You know I mean always looked forward to champagne but er there we are . |
| 11 | And I got rather fed up with work last night actually cos there 's a load of drunken idiots and chatting me up . |
| 12 | I got really fed up hearing it and thought that one more repetition would send me screaming down the street ! |
| 13 | Anyway I got so carried away that I ca n't remember the game in detail so this report is crap , all I can remember is the Elland Road wall of noise and the fury of the Leeds attack once Batty was on the pitch . |
| 14 | He could have written , ‘ Every time I walk through London I realise how chained down everybody is , how people make one another suffer , how no one is free from corruption ’ — and he would have been greeted with our ‘ Yes , so you think that . |
| 15 | I do n't agree with the theory that my becoming emotionally charged up by the relay affair affected my running in the 100 metres . |
| 16 | He wrote : ‘ If someone has just stepped out of your life you 'll be better reaching for this single than a bottle , razor blade or handkerchief . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You know someone has just come in downstairs . ’ |
| 18 | . I 'm surprised yours has n't dented yet . |
| 19 | I 'd just turned right off the B1 150 at Fairstead when I nearly crashed into the back of this unlit car skewed across the road . |
| 20 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 21 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
| 22 | I 'd just made rather a good job of denting his back bumper . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I think I 'd just made quite a good speech but I thought they were joking , ’ he says . |
| 24 | In the past I 'd just resented how long he spent in the office . |
| 25 | Apparently he was a bit worried , so I said — oh , it sounds silly — that we 'd only just got back , that I 'd just sat down … . ’ |
| 26 | Well I 'd just got there , it was just between quarter past and ten past and twelve were there . |
| 27 | Well I c I I 've seen so many things over the year I just do n't believe it until I actually see it and th literally four weeks ago , I 'd just got back from Germany , went on a meeting the following morning and it 's that gentleman there , Steve , and h he 's got some pictures in his pocket which will prove exactly what we 're talking about . |
| 28 | That was er I 'd just got back from work . |
| 29 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 30 | Brilliant , I said , pretending that I 'd just got in . |