Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Almost everyone I met had lost at least one relative , some had lost several , and families had been scattered hundreds of miles apart , ’ said Mr Thomas . |
| 2 | Yeah , well I I tried to get rid of it but it would n't go . |
| 3 | I seemed to have stumbled into a painting by Hogarth . |
| 4 | There was such a deep gulf between the stern , dutiful world of my aunt 's upbringing and my schooldays , and the kind of lotus-land I seemed to have fallen into during the last year , that I had sometimes felt , when I bathed my baby or sat giggling in the park with Sophie , that I was taking part , not in real life , but in some wildly unrelated dream . |
| 5 | We were by then in our fourth month of living with my mother in the house and , although the cooking was vastly improved , I seemed to have bitten through my cheeks , eleven of my ten fingers and was starting to bite through Jack 's . |
| 6 | At this point I had one of those Proustian flashbacks about just such a place which I seemed to have known in childhood . |
| 7 | That 's a habit I seemed to have got into during the pregnancy . |
| 8 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 9 | I thought I 'd got rid of that wretched reservation form . |
| 10 | After I 'd got rid of about half the beer I 'd drunk in the Arms , I went to have another look at the Factory . |
| 11 | I thought I 'd got rid of them all but I had n't , right ? |
| 12 | I 'd got nicked for burglary and , so , the only way to get out of it was by trying the hospital . |
| 13 | White cotton sheets that I 'd had bought as a wedding present . |
| 14 | ‘ I fancied getting married in black because it seemed to throw tradition to the winds , and looked very dramatic . |
| 15 | Then I found out that Jim was making all the original pedals as well , so I decided to get rid of all the stuff I 'd been trying to make all these sounds with and just use the original things . |
| 16 | You know I pl I I started this album really I started writing it while I was doing Love Hurts in Israel and Zoe would s sort of catch in the caravan , what the hell are you doing now , you know I was writing lyrics and thi , and I started to get keyed into this album just before I finished Love Hurts . |
| 17 | Some girls I knew had arranged for their two penfriends to meet me at the Gare du Nord and , somehow , we recognised one another . |
| 18 | I managed to get rid of about eighty and if we do sell these extra what twenty or thirty that 's going to be between a hundred and a hundred and fifty pounds profit . |
| 19 | Yeah , but that goes , that goes in the lit file , so I got rid of my er with the thirty five I managed to get rid of erm |
| 20 | ‘ Oh dear — I kept getting caught by people . |
| 21 | It did n't need much concentration , and all through the morning I kept getting interrupted by the thought of Oliver standing there not being able to say anything , and then practically shouting what he did . |
| 22 | Macaulay Culkin is wonderful — I like him a lot — but I did get frightened at the bit when he slipped over on the ice and the bad men caught up with him . |
| 23 | There were moments when I did get upset by it , but I never let her see it . |
| 24 | Kinloss was a pleasant environment and the locals were extremely kind to the alien invasion , but one felt so very much out of the hurly burly of wartime England , this was made particularly clear when pupils I had trained returned for their rest period , and one did get the message that my operational background was no longer valid or right to pass on to the crews coming forward for conversion to twin-engined aircraft . |
| 25 | Now , she says : ‘ I wish I had gotten rid of him back then instead . ’ |
| 26 | I had grown used to these meal gatherings , to the formal greetings . |
| 27 | I had become engaged to Leading Seaman Arthur Saunders RNVR who was serving in HMS Reading , a fourstacker loaned to us under the lease-lend arrangements . |
| 28 | The reason why I joined the original class was that I had become intrigued by what I had heard and read about the Technique and I thought it might help prevent a second hip operation . |
| 29 | The solicitor I had consulted talked of power of attorney . |
| 30 | Perhaps the two men I had met worked from there , harvesting stones ! |