Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle . |
| 2 | I agreed to pass on the message as I was on my way to Make-up . ’ |
| 3 | When I got sent down the judge said , ‘ You should be out for the baby 's birth ’ , but I was n't . |
| 4 | I went to Grosvenor Square and abused ‘ American Imperialists ’ , I got thumped about a bit on Troops Out demos , and I dutifully handed out time and money in support of ‘ the miners ' wives ’ . |
| 5 | I got to work up a good sweat . |
| 6 | I tried to tidy up a bit when I first came to work here , but I soon found out I was wasting my time . |
| 7 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 8 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 9 | I tried to crush up a salt tablet in a cup and dissolve it in the water but she moaned when I held the cup to her lips and tried to turn her head away . |
| 10 | I tried to separate out the harmonies in the snoring . |
| 11 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 12 | In the pauses , I tried totting up the words Vern had spoken since we 'd arrived . |
| 13 | The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception . |
| 14 | As well as observing the score 's incredible organization of its thematic riches — ‘ I tried to work out a little table of leitmotifs and I got past 70 , which is amazing in an opera ’ — Maazel discovered in rehearsal just how well thought out Puccini 's orchestration actually is . |
| 15 | I tried to work out an obvious connection between scholarship and cocaine and could not , but knew better than to ask . |
| 16 | As I lay back on my bed I tried to work out the connection between him and the British Empire and Fresnes gaol , but could make nothing of it . |
| 17 | Playing with the selectors challenged my mathematics as I tried to work out the exact number of available tones , but let's just say there should be something here for virtually every style of player . |
| 18 | Is n't it true that someone tried to burn down the barn your Sparrowgrass was stabled in a month ago ? |
| 19 | At Benjamin 's urging I helped pick up a wooden chest . |
| 20 | ‘ I promised to ask around a bit , and it occurred to me that the book might contain a clue . ’ |
| 21 | Though we no longer went out together in the evenings , I promised to keep up the pretence that we did . |
| 22 | I wandered ail over the city , getting lost then finding myself again where I had started . |
| 23 | comment , and another time I 'd lit up a cigarette you know |
| 24 | I 'd grappled up the slope on foot just before and knew how steep and icy its surface was and which of the bigger rocks had to be dodged because they would foul the car 's underside . |
| 25 | I 'd built up a picture of you , like the one my father cut out and gave me , but it 's nothing like you , Dimitri . |
| 26 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 27 | My mother could n't believe I 'd turned down the highest single accolade known to show business aside from This Is Your Life ( which I 've also managed to avoid by dint of a pact with the reclusive man with whom I share my digs ) . |
| 28 | I did n't have to think — I was leaping downhill like a goddamned goat before I 'd summed up the situation : which was they intended to rob me . |
| 29 | I rang the School of Tropical Medicine in London and told them I 'd picked up a botfly , and they said ‘ very exciting ’ and quoted me some home cures : ‘ Keep a raw steak over the hole for a couple of hours and the larva will burrow to the surface to breathe and then you can take the steak away … ‘ |
| 30 | Twenty-odd years earlier , I 'd picked up an idea from the marvellously creative Bill Brown who was Director of Billy Graham 's Crusades in 1966–7 . |