Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meeting Jack in his butch horn-rims gave me a feeling of intense familiarity and the first time we banged glasses together in mid-kiss I just knew it was sight at first love . |
| 2 | ‘ Father , ’ said Tutilo , burning into startling whiteness , ‘ I pledge you my faith I never did nor never would have done him any harm , nor do I know of any who might need to wish him ill . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , the two reasons I even got involved in a group were at the party — Mark Smith and John Peel . |
| 4 | He was receding a bit , and ‘ with long hair I always looked pretty and I do n't like being pretty — I wanted a bit more of a hard image ’ . |
| 5 | And it 's too late to put together the story I really wanted to do this week . |
| 6 | I was so deep in the story I never noticed . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ That 's the sweetest story I ever heard , ’ Zeke says . |
| 8 | Perhaps the best way to write this kind of story ( or even the equivalent of the detective novel at short story length ) is to do as I did with the first crime short story I ever wrote . |
| 9 | Well according to the er Express I just had a look at , they reckon it 's on but for about half the original sum . |
| 10 | I suspect that in the excitement of going on board I hardly realized she was leaving me for good . |
| 11 | In this case I also wanted to get the cut edges of the neckband tidied up as soon as possible — remember this particular garment has been ferried to and fro to class and back . |
| 12 | no , and any case I just remembered Nicola 's was only hundred and sixty . |
| 13 | Son taught it to me , in case I ever got a Hungarian . |
| 14 | This had already been binned but I binned the offer as well , just in case I ever came close to considering it seriously . |
| 15 | ‘ Honest , mister , I 'm the 'ardest luck case I ever 'eard of , ’ she said , halfway through the second sandwich . |
| 16 | In fact it 's the best offer I 've ever had , and in any case I always knew I could go back to Wakefield if it did not work out . |
| 17 | I resisted the temptation to analyse the results until all information had been gathered in case I sub-consciously distorted the data-gathering process . |
| 18 | In my case I almost felt that I was a participant in some workshops which had been filmed ten years earlier . |
| 19 | When I eventually got off the bus back in Maseru I nearly collapsed , such was my weakness . |
| 20 | When I heard from Liz that your boss was starting to talk about wedding bells I swiftly moved all my operations back to London . ’ |
| 21 | I may have the idea that makes me start putting the brush strokes down , but at some point the canvas will take on a life of its own and lead me off in a direction I never expected to go . |
| 22 | The university opened up for me a freedom I never knew existed . |
| 23 | Many opinions I formerly entertained are now given up & probably many of my present opinions will share the same fate — I wish them to be closely and fully ( as I know they will fairly ) examined without any regard to the author & therefore I can not by my presence aid your cause . |
| 24 | Gav and my Aunt Janice got on like a house on fire , a combined location and fate I occasionally wished on them as I lay awake listening to the sounds of their love-making , a pastime I sometimes suspected I shared with people in a large part of the surrounding community , not to say northern Europe . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've always said you were the best blacksmith I ever had . ’ |
| 26 | Then , after I 'd walked about a bit and done my errands I suddenly felt much better . |
| 27 | About nationalisation I never had any doubt . |
| 28 | I drank fears like wormwood , yea , made myself drunken with bitterness ; for my ever-shaping and distrustful mind still mingled gall-drops , till out of the cup of hope I almost poisoned myself with despair … |
| 29 | Yeah I mean like when I was in the park I only did it between because I was only really talking to one person at one time , but I mean like I could n't remember anywhere . |
| 30 | With George 's anarchic tendencies I often wondered why he ever chose to work in such a highly structured and formal setting as the organisation . |