Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I passed this on to the assembled crowd — Lisabeth in her dressing-gown constituted a crowd by herself — and held up my hands to silence the chorus of ‘ what'll-we-do-now ? ’
2 And they come back and they say , I had a test today , I got five out of twenty .
3 I got eighteen out of twenty .
4 I got nineteen out of twenty-five
5 I got twenty out of twenty
6 I got twenty out of twenty
7 I got this out of mother 's catalogue .
8 Like this is my opening routine , I got this out of a book actually , you come , okay ?
9 I tried this on from various directions , but it still did n't make sense .
10 I tried this out on Matt who said , ‘ Hey man I did n't know you had hippie blood . ’
11 I found that out in the pleasure garden .
12 I found this out at Dagenham , when I worked at Fords , the supply lorries used to come through the day and through the night with articles made in other factories , including bodies and wheels and these were put on the assembly line and routed through Fords to be assembled .
13 I helped this along by taking some Flocor from an established filter and placing it in the vat filter .
14 I drew this up as a sketch showing , in essence , a section of the city .
15 It has its disadvantages in one 's daily life , and I remember now that I described this in At Mrs L 's — how Julia was like that and her family found it tiring and annoying , because she came to everything freshly and without preconceived opinions , and wasted time and came to odd conclusions because nothing was taken for granted .
16 Then , about halfway to Black Point , I 'd snug down in the anchorage of Bridgemarsh on the north bank .
17 Although I came third out of fifty folk competing for established status by examination , it was no good , only one candidate was accepted .
18 I handed these in to the Midland Bank , Cockerton , Darlington .
19 All things considered , I reckoned two out of three was n't bad .
20 I said well do n't worry about it I said I locked all off from under my windows I says .
21 Well er anyway as it , as it worked out , although I did a lot of s sloshing about , erm when I actually got to erm on to the four one four and I followed that through to the M one and straight up and I was running parallel with the M twenty five , virtually
22 Six months later , in September , I followed this up with a circular to health authorities requiring them to put their services out to tender .
23 ‘ You managed that well , ’ ‘ I 'm glad I talked that through with you . ’
24 I knew all along of course that Pahdra Singh was only interested in the club for his own profit .
25 Picking it up , I rolled that up with the bundle too .
26 I brought some back with us .
27 I looked all around for the fandango dancer to appear but she kept well clear .
28 ‘ It was a good match and because I always felt I had a chance to break Byron I was not too unhappy when I went 3–0 down in the last set .
29 I took this down to the town hall the following day and then set myself to the most urgent task in hand : trying to find another job .
30 ‘ No , I gave that up as a bad job years ago . ’
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