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 . ’ |