Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 2 | So I did n't know anything about it you know , till somebody asked me Well asked me really , Mr 's going away is n't he ? |
| 3 | He got me so riled I lost a race this afternoon I should have won . |
| 4 | Building them often took twice as long as planned , and costs were two to three times the original estimate . |
| 5 | So it looks awfully fresh the wretches made me almost squashed it . |
| 6 | I realized I just had to accept him for what he was , and when I learnt to do that , he did the same to me - accepted me without question , in all my imperfection , in all that made me unworthy of him . |
| 7 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |
| 8 | I do n't think I even heard his name . |
| 9 | I do n't think I even liked him very much . ’ |
| 10 | I had no awareness of the supposed stereotypical mother of that era — lipsticked and aproned , waiting at the door — and do n't think I even encountered a picture of her , in books , comics or film , until the early 1960s . |
| 11 | ‘ No , I do n't think I ever looked inside . |
| 12 | All sorts of people held their hands out to me but I do n't think I ever got anything . |
| 13 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 14 | I do n't think I ever saw J[ack] work more than half an hour without the cry of ‘ Barboys ! ’ — ‘ Coming , dear ! ’ , down would go the pen , and he would be away perhaps five minutes , perhaps half an hour ; possibly to do nothing more important than stand by the kitchen range as scullery maid . |
| 15 | I do n't think I ever saw it . |
| 16 | I do n't think I ever saw a nude woman in the house — certainly there were women in various states of undress … but never nude . " |
| 17 | I do n't think I ever saw her again . |
| 18 | I do n't think I ever saw erm , yeah I did n't though . |
| 19 | We got our ration books — for us and the cattle-food as well — but I do n't think I ever worried about the possibility of Hitler invading us . |
| 20 | I , I do n't think I ever said that we could n't go ahead with it this year , I merely pointed out , I merely |
| 21 | Yes , right to , to and , and you could even go on farther , but I do n't think I ever went any further I did n't have time . |
| 22 | I do n't think I ever met a refined man before . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't think I ever knew her last name . |
| 24 | But er , know I , I do n't think I ever heard anybody think about it or say anything about a , an air raid like , you know . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think I ever heard of him , ’ Agnes said . |
| 26 | I do n't think I ever gave him a wrong 'un , though . |
| 27 | I had to conform ; I do not think I ever used the term in my reports , except in parenthesis to denote a sort of dirty word . |
| 28 | I do n't think I ever caught up with it . |
| 29 | He he very rarely played truant a boy did n't it 's er in fact I er I do n't think I ever did , to my knowledge played truant at all during school . |
| 30 | I do n't think I ever moved so fast in all my life . |