Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] got [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I got home I translated the idea into a pressed flower design . |
| 2 | Well we took our turn and we waited to go in but once we got in we broke away from the crowd and when they all came out and went to lunch in the town we did n't . |
| 3 | Then after she got over she used , I used to give her some water then . |
| 4 | And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years . |
| 5 | But just before we got there I realized how — tawdry it was going to be . |
| 6 | She had other daughters in the town but she always wanted me and if ever she wanted anything to do with her papers and books and financial things , she used to ask my husband to go in , you see the day after we got there she brought us a huge dish like that with mushrooms which er grew f er well there are houses built there now but er at that time they had a big meadow there sort of a copse er in it with a bunch of trees and you see and all these mushrooms grew , you see , and they were , you know , they 're nice you see . |
| 7 | er after they got so you had n't got no more life in them we used to weld short bits onto . |
| 8 | ‘ After he got back I felt like I was in a black hole , ’ groaned a disconsolate Wilkinson after his two hour defeat . |
| 9 | When I got ashore I stole a small fishing boat and sailed it to the Delta . |
| 10 | When I got upstairs I found Abu Salim , which did nothing for my confidence , |
| 11 | When I got up I saw a friend by my side with a lot of blood , and I saw she was dead . |
| 12 | When I got outside I found Mum in the yard , waving her arms about and giving directions to the neighbours whom she was organising for the party . |
| 13 | And when I got through I knew immediately by the tone of her voice that she was , there was something wrong . |
| 14 | When I got through she made a kind of whistling noise through her teeth . |
| 15 | When I got closer I found it to be empty and forgotten ; cattle grazed up to its outer walls , its projecting porch was thick with ivy , its gardens with nettles . |
| 16 | anyhow that made me feel there was no future in Plymouth for that , so this opportunity came , I came and when I got here they did n't carry any sergeants so I would of had to move again if I wanted promotion , which I was n't prepared to do for this , mainly for his education , unfortunately the |
| 17 | I thought she was a friend but when I got here she had changed . |
| 18 | When I got here I discovered she did n't live in the town any longer . |
| 19 | all them eggs you know , when we went to Alec , when they were selling these trays of eggs , er , we went there with Alec , so I said I 'll have one like , and they were really fresh , but when I got home I got that thing of , from Kwiksave , I got the whole packet , big packet |
| 20 | Whilst on the market stall I had a Liverpool pensioner who had n't seen a Liverpool organisation so when I got home I sent to her a notice of the huge rally there going to hold in September , in Liverpool with a couple of Bishop 's and big national speakers , I sent that to her and also contacted a Liverpool pensioner secretary to get in touch with her , and we 've also written to erm , that 's the rally , erm , we 've also , I 've also written to Jim from Cumberland , if you remember er his down our rally , so we should have some , we decided to buy twelve copies of each publication they produce and one when we get our office will be available there . |
| 21 | I went out and bought a remedy , thinking it was an infection , but when I got home I realised that she actually had a piece of red coloured gravel stuck inside her mouth , so that she could n't close it properly . |
| 22 | When I got home I told everybody where I 'd been and what I 'd done : my 63-year-old father , my three sisters , my nephews , my friends , the men and women in my local pub and my colleagues at the bank . |
| 23 | When I got home I said , ‘ They ought to know you better than think you would marry a prostitute . ‘ |
| 24 | When I got home I looked up Fauré in the Oxford Companion . |
| 25 | ‘ When I got home I called the NRA freephone pollution number and I was told it was too dark and cold for anyone to go down and somebody would be there first thing in the morning . |
| 26 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 27 | When I got home I picked up the threads of my ordinary life again very quickly — you might say I snatched them up , and plunged into a round of work and social life deliberately intended to give me as few idle moments as possible . |
| 28 | When I got halfway I heard the angry voice of the French maid saying very aggressively : ‘ You got nobody like Napoleon ! ’ |
| 29 | And she said to him , when I got out she said oh , was he knife happy ? |
| 30 | ‘ When I got out I looked at the car and the lorry and I just could n't believe it . |