Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had an army , and on 15th June , Bothwell and I rode out to fight them . |
| 2 | As I got up to take it from him , there was a sharp rapping at the front door . |
| 3 | There was an embarrassing moment when I thought he was walking over to me to begin the programme and I got up to greet him . |
| 4 | Edward came back struggling with a load of planks , and I got up to help him . |
| 5 | I did n't have much choice , I was n't listening to it anyway so then I got quite to like it then . |
| 6 | K. R. I saw a fellow having an epileptic fit and I got down to hold him while he kicked out . |
| 7 | After I got back to work I realised just how many people do n't give blood in the Institute ( which is what prompted me to write this article ) . |
| 8 | Even if I 've had doubt , I tried not to show it . |
| 9 | Being a methodical man , I tried laboriously to sew it on . |
| 10 | I bent down to do it and he always pokes me in the eye with it . |
| 11 | I bent down to pick them up . |
| 12 | So I bent down to clear it and gradually it crept up me legs to me knees , What 's the matter lad ? |
| 13 | I pretended not to notice it , and , as the students listened with bated breath , instructed them to turn to page thirty in Jespersen . |
| 14 | Even then Mr Pumblechook said , ‘ And fourteen ? ’ but I pretended not to hear him . |
| 15 | He sent me a number of his books , all suitably inscribed in his very Chinese style , and I stopped off to visit him and his wife at Brighton , south of Boston , in 1951 . |
| 16 | After his death , I learnt not to shut him out of my life and now I feel a comforting sense of continuity when I go through the boxes and find little notes by him which I have never seen before . |
| 17 | I must have fallen asleep , for I dreamed that a girl was kissing me open-mouthed , the touch of her tongue light as a butterfly , and her hand caressing , and I woke suddenly to find I was thoroughly roused . |
| 18 | ‘ Constable Aplin and I came here to ask you a few questions about a certain matter . |
| 19 | ‘ Funny , I came here to see her as well . ’ |
| 20 | " I came here to give her a present . |
| 21 | It was my first 6-day race and I came here to enjoy it with no plan or target , so I 'm very happy to have had such a successful run . ’ |
| 22 | Desperately she tried to unscramble the confusion in her brain , searching in vain for a way to handle the situation , and it was sheer impulse that made her say , ‘ I came here to meet you — the wild man of the wilderness . |
| 23 | That 's the only I came up to tell you . |
| 24 | The only reason I came in here was that I was on my way into town when your boys called and they said it would be quicker if I came in to see you . |
| 25 | I came in to see you but you were n't in so . |
| 26 | I came in to get it and found this same person using it . |
| 27 | Following Sunday I came down to wash it and polish it and now we 've got blue stickers in the bathroom the heater ! |
| 28 | You know quite well that 's why I came back to see you . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I came out to call him in and saw you pass . |
| 30 | I finally got one job offer , but when I turned up to work I found that it had been a mistake . |