Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However I applied and then sought the advice and prayers of Christian friends and we prayed that if it was n't from the Lord I would n't get accepted . |
| 2 | That was where I met and still meet the only person I 'd call a friend ; Jamie the dwarf , whom I let sit on my shoulders so he can see the bands . |
| 3 | I agreed but then thought , yes I do , what else have I got going for me ? |
| 4 | I agreed and really enjoyed it . |
| 5 | I checked and then rechecked our position before slumping down in despair . |
| 6 | And it would n't have been so bad il the owner had been anybody else but Mrs Rumney ; I found that even discussing the thing with her had become almost unbearable . |
| 7 | but you 've got a very nice way of actually listening and you 'll actually learn far more about people by listening than actually talking so erm I found that quite picked up and pinpoint areas contact er eye contact , that was good , stayed in control , not too pushy yeah . |
| 8 | I fumed and later told Brian , ‘ That 's it . |
| 9 | It creaked and I stopped and then heard something : a sort of thin scratching from underneath the stairs . |
| 10 | and things , you think is it worth it because the car would be sat out here , if , if say , say I transferred and still did three days but did it when you work |
| 11 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 12 | I looked at them , they looked at me , and I turned and hurriedly made my way downstairs . |
| 13 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 14 | I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's |
| 15 | Q I recently became the owner of a pond which I planted and then left for a few weeks before I put the fish in . |
| 16 | ‘ But I thought that only referred to KITS ! ’ |
| 17 | I thought and still think that John and Mary is the least film-like of novels ; most of the wordage is devoted to the thoughts of the characters , and the most dramatic piece of action is the accidental breaking of a glass … |
| 18 | then I fell and bloody stretched my groin ! |
| 19 | I mean in so I I come here today with a petition that I presented that also talks about proposing to abolish the merger , I mean this is a move just one step away from that but I still feel in what was proposed at the last full council meeting and I would express my views to the officers that in light of what has been suggested today is actually implemented to the wording as it stands because the joint working party that had been er written up previously never did meet although if I can inform it was only the officers who actually met up and I hope that in light of all the working group and the two heads of centres covering for each other would be implicitly applied . |
| 20 | I dressed and then went to my suitcase , searching for an old , black veil . |
| 21 | Caught me foot I did and nearly fell , ’ Jess said , muffled by her hands . |
| 22 | As the campaign progressed , I became increasingly angry at the attitudes of my friends at home and how different they said things were there , believing , as I did and still do , in the importance of a Labour victory for Britain as a whole . |
| 23 | You can either create it the way I did or just copy everything you see here into a new file . |
| 24 | I said that though did n't I ? |
| 25 | in front of them , so I waited until I got home and took me slipper off and whacked his bum , I said the next time I said that 's what 's gon na happen , I said you can do what you like when we go out I said but just remember what you 'll get when we come back |
| 26 | ‘ It 's 17 April , ’ I said and then wondered if the church was booked because the canon suddenly looked preoccupied — he seemed to be somewhere else entirely for a minute . |
| 27 | This was by far the most fertile area I had as yet seen in the Danakil country , and it was dotted with small villages of mat-covered huts . |
| 28 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 29 | I froze and so did Harvey . |
| 30 | I whimpered and pathetically tried to move the little finger of my left hand , currently being squeezed bloodless by the lattice work of fingers he had somehow contrived along the handle . |