Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pos pn] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know before I got my hair done . |
| 2 | We did all right until we got to the last bit and I got my foot caught in Otley 's pocket when he tried to bend down , he fell and flung me over his head knocking my wig skew-whiff . |
| 3 | ‘ But we were going tae South America : tae Brazil , when I got my leg bit off . |
| 4 | I got my burns scraped and that hurts quite a lot . |
| 5 | I got my nose pressed against the glass and it keeps steaming up with my huff , so I wipe it with my fingers . |
| 6 | I mean , my husband has even at one point had to come into the bathroom , when I got my mother stuck in the bath er , could n't get her out , it was , it was him or the fire brigade , tha that was the choice , basically ! |
| 7 | It were this greyish thing you know , if I got , as long as I got my car warmed up it took frost , i ice off of window . |
| 8 | And finally , when I scrutinised Master Southgate 's spur , I found its sharpness tinged with mercury . ’ |
| 9 | I found your article entitled ‘ Research Scientist ’ most interesting . |
| 10 | Rushing for the exit , I found my escape blocked as a chorus of sinister cackling closed in around me . |
| 11 | ‘ We talked about it , ’ said Jenny , ‘ because I told him frankly that I was in love with Jamie , and he looked at me as if I needed my head examined ! ’ |
| 12 | Glancing down , I saw our hands joined in a smooth lump of flesh . |
| 13 | I only found out about you when I saw his car parked outside that night . ’ |
| 14 | Over my own shoulder , I saw his face come out of the shadows . |
| 15 | ‘ But I saw your husband come into the tent while you were over at the tombola , ’ Mrs Doran said to Mrs Yardley . |
| 16 | ‘ I was very angry when I saw my name mentioned in connection with an incident that had absolutely nothing to do with me . ’ |
| 17 | I made acquaintances , I met partners — that special freemasonry of glances — and gradually I saw my features reflected in the iridescent circumstances of Rio . |
| 18 | I wanted to broach the matter with my master but he was lost in his own thoughts so I kept my fears hidden as we rode along the lee of the hill . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At least she did n't ask why I kept my curtains closed in the daytime . |
| 21 | In the shadow of the bus , a vulture wheeling overhead , I kept my eyes fixed on the bush behind us . |
| 22 | I kept my hand pressed to the bottom of the boat , my fingers freezing in the icy water swilling round us , but I noticed it grew no deeper . |
| 23 | I said what would I like to say , disgusted with the way he 's been treated , I said my father left intensive care at one o'clock on Friday , we was told he was gon na leave there at four o'clock to go home and have a meal and be with him when he went on the ward , when we came back , he 'd been moved , he 'd gone on the ward , he was plonked in the chair , his catheter was on his lap , it had leaked all over him , his dressing was hanging off and seeping with green stuff the wound on his leg was run all down over his foot , he 'd got no cover on his seat so he could see , Dave said they looked and they did n't look very bloody nice |
| 24 | Yes but the , the general ones we 've got in those flip you know when I was off , when I had my cartilage removed in my knee , well I was off for six weeks so I got all the photographs and put them in order , the children and us , you know ? |
| 25 | Luckily , old habits die hard , and I had my tape-memory stowed in the car , together with a stack of other junk . |
| 26 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 27 | For example I had my bottom wiped for me for six weeks . |
| 28 | That 's how I used to be until I had my brain overhaused last year . |
| 29 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 30 | Well when I had my boob done including consultation , his was about seven hundred pound . |