Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I lived here for three years , if you want to be precise . ’ |
| 2 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 3 | I lived there for eighteen months with someone I thought I loved , indeed who I did , do , no , did love . ’ |
| 4 | At my first important debate , I paired up with five of the Tory buggers and then I turned up . |
| 5 | trying to get through the , he says oh them people have left here , now you 'll have to , and he gives us another two numbers and that , I got through on one of the numbers and then er , I asked I says oh I says I did n't get me photograph and me plastic wallet , he says well you do n't really need them you know when you retired , but I says how can you go on the train , you sure of that ? |
| 6 | The next morning I got up at 7.30 am and had breakfast , got changed and got into the car to wait for Rachel , Betty , Paul and David . |
| 7 | I got up at eight this morning |
| 8 | I got up at eight this morning when Rudy went and put all them towels out and erm , when I got up at ten it , they were all dry |
| 9 | ‘ I got up at four in the morning to wash ’ , complained a Geordie . |
| 10 | I got up at six , spent all day cleaning other people 's houses , from 8.30 a.m. until 4.30 , with half an hour for dinner , for £25 . |
| 11 | I got up at eight this morning when Rudy went and put all them towels out and erm , when I got up at ten it , they were all dry |
| 12 | I 'd had about as soon as he come to bed I cuddled up to him and I got up at ten to eleven . |
| 13 | I got up at ten past eight . |
| 14 | I got up at seven which is late for me |
| 15 | Which meant I probably was like awake to start with , because I , although I got up at seven , I still was n't ready to go to bed at eleven , cos it was still too early , and usually I go to bed about two . |
| 16 | I was getting forty and I got up to ninety four . |
| 17 | And but the reason that I got up to ten stone is because christmas . |
| 18 | And I got on at 50-1 immediately after that race , and had a fair bet . |
| 19 | One afternoon , a week later , I decided the time had come to stop dithering like a Victorian maiden and to write to Bill , when I got off at ten that night , asking if no news was good news . |
| 20 | ‘ I got there on one A-level and kept thinking I should n't really be here . |
| 21 | I was once put on a discipline charge because I had to cycle from here to Lark Lane police station on a very windy day and I got there at eleven |
| 22 | ‘ I got there at ten a.m. and was done by one p. m . |
| 23 | The Plaza cinema had columns outside it , so I got there at ten to six , got behind the pillar and thought , ‘ If I do n't fancy her when I see her , I wo n't come out . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I got out in one shot . ’ |
| 25 | I got down to eleven stone and then I stuck |
| 26 | I got down to ten stone . |
| 27 | But I got down to ten stone . |
| 28 | I got down to ten |
| 29 | No do n't , I shall , if I 'm home by , only if I got back by five , I , I better |
| 30 | Some British armoured cars came and began shooting from a distance , and in the chaos I shouted out to four or five brother officers and we drove off in a truck . |