Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had only known , positively though without details , that there was no help and no comfort forthcoming from the source , and that being so I shied away from any mental flashbacks which could only make me more unhappy and ashamed . |
| 2 | I argued continually with another angler who swore by 11ft , 1½lb test-curve rods with a poker-like action . |
| 3 | That I lived here for many years as a child , that — " |
| 4 | I emptied there with all the erm |
| 5 | ‘ So I got away with that all right . |
| 6 | I am always in my very best spirits , for my heart has been as light as a feather ever since I got away from all that humbug ; and , what is more , I have become fatter . |
| 7 | I 'm sorry to report that I behaved rudely at this point . |
| 8 | Luckily I learnt early on that whereas I might see there are all sorts of emotional issues that the person grieving could work on , they may well choose not to . |
| 9 | ‘ I came here for some answers . |
| 10 | ’ If you have been attending to it for twenty four years , I came here into this church as a choir boy . ’ |
| 11 | I came here by many paths . |
| 12 | So I came away with this sort of inside information |
| 13 | ‘ I came away in such a hurry — I 've forgotten . ’ |
| 14 | This lady was typical of the many I came across at these events . |
| 15 | I came across on this trip . |
| 16 | Crawford was the first person I came across in all the rambles who immediately saw the historical value of JTR 's records . |
| 17 | No I came home at half two today . |
| 18 | I speculated endlessly about that welt . |
| 19 | I touched earlier on some of the reasons why we find open behaviour in this country so difficult and I believe it is partly to do with emotion . |
| 20 | And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there . |
| 21 | I walked slowly round each vehicle , then peered underneath it , coming out and round and on to the next one . |
| 22 | I walked right through that fantastic min . |
| 23 | I walked right into that one , I suppose . |
| 24 | Livingstone , a 34-year-old PE teacher said : ‘ Kevin and I broke away from another four runners around the halfway mark and I got the measure of him with 200 metres remaining he did n't seem to have anything left . |
| 25 | Actually , I talked mostly about that . |
| 26 | And when Reggie sent a picture , hand-painted by Joyce , I felt best of all . |
| 27 | I tell you ; I felt exactly like that other brilliant fellow must have felt when he discovered penicillin . |
| 28 | What had happened to us could not , I thought , have been due entirely to education — not even to the idea that girls develop more quickly than boys to a certain point and then slow down ; but as I still clung loyally to my little world where all clergymen were good , all solicitors honest , and all philosophers and experts different from ordinary people and unquestionably right , I struggled hard against any idea that I might still be wiser than Bertrand Russell in some respects . |
| 29 | When it was rephrased , ‘ Do you ever find yourself saying , I wish 1 could do this better or I wish I knew more about that ? ’ it was more easily understood . |
| 30 | In future farmers should be encouraged to consider training every time they say to themselves , ‘ I wish I knew more about this ’ or ‘ I wish I could do this better ’ . |