Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may represent a list of deities , a list of soldiers , or a discussion by a Hittite king of the building of the temple at Phaistos : all these suggestions have been put forward , though none of them has convinced even a quorum of scholars . |
| 2 | I see I 've got quite a lot to learn about them . |
| 3 | I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess . |
| 4 | Of course , if I 'd waited just a few months , I could have had anyone I liked . |
| 5 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 6 | if I 'd got here a minute quicker I 'd got you some chocolate biscuits you could of been having with that cup of tea |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd spent quite a bit of time then visiting district nurses and accident and emergency departments which gave me a real insight into the health service and an understanding of the commitment there was around , ’ Cruickshank said . |
| 8 | He smilingly proffered me a cup of watered wine in one of the goblets I had hidden away the previous evening . |
| 9 | One way or another , I had drunk quite a bit this evening , but I did n't need to powder my nose . |
| 10 | I had lost even the will to be a coward . |
| 11 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 12 | I had done all the cooking and was waiting for my husband to come home . |
| 13 | Mum followed them and I too decided to find Frankie to tell him the news after I had cleared away the crocks . |
| 14 | Everything of mine at that stage was still packed , but I had set aside a separate box for tea and coffee things so tea was easy to arrange . |
| 15 | One year I had worked nearly a month flat out , every day without a waking hour to myself . |
| 16 | I had come home a day early . |
| 17 | Suppose I had put aside a little , even a little , of that money , for myself , what would I have now ? |
| 18 | I read the rest of the story ; the gist of it was I had idled away a year on full pay and what was the Government going to do about it ? |
| 19 | I had had quite a grounding in this at the City Temple . |
| 20 | ‘ I wis lost for a while , because I had went there every day . |
| 21 | So the decision was made for me , you see , it was only afterwards that I saw I had taken quite a step — a leap in the dark , in fact . |
| 22 | selling and getting a result on that you see I 've covered a lot of stuff for you on that , I 've covered quite a bit with you on , er product knowledge , now would you say that you 're reasonably together there and where you want to be on product knowledge ? |
| 23 | Er well I think I 've said quite a bit about it . |
| 24 | But since we last met I 've visited both the States and Brazil , and had several long days of hard talking . ’ |
| 25 | Erm , so you would leave what I call this deadwood lying on your spreadsheet , cells that are using up memory , they 're not needed any more erm , on many people 's spreadsheets I 've discovered quite a lot of deadwood using up large amounts of memory , like in some people 's cases two-thirds of the memory used by the deadwood . |
| 26 | But it 's too late now , I 've frittered away the time , as usual . |
| 27 | The diabetes can sometimes disappear if you lose weight and maybe that will happen to me one of these days as I 've lost quite a lot recently . |
| 28 | He put me in at centre half and I 've played virtually every game since . |
| 29 | I 've printed only the successful child of each generation ( i.e. the parent of the next generation ) and one or two of its unsuccessful sisters . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've seen just the same in the police , ’ murmured Blanche . |