Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , the two reasons I even got involved in a group were at the party — Mark Smith and John Peel . |
| 2 | When I heard from Liz that your boss was starting to talk about wedding bells I swiftly moved all my operations back to London . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then , after I 'd walked about a bit and done my errands I suddenly felt much better . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although I had precise engineering plans I nevertheless measured and remeasured the space . |
| 7 | Two fingers I had waved at that driver as he thundered past me , cursing me through the open cab window and fighting the wheel , and those two fingers I now regretted having on my hand . |
| 8 | In the many visits I paid in the course of promoting these activities I again found the kind of awareness of what was new in literature in places I had least expected ; and when in the autumn of that year The Idea of a Christian Society was published , it was much more successful than Eliot hoped . |
| 9 | During those long and enjoyable hours I slowly became an ornithologist . |
| 10 | Q Although I 'd love to fill my home with baskets of potpourri , ornaments , vases , dried-flower arrangements and all the accessories I often read about in Ideal Home , my problem is the children . |
| 11 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 12 | When I fought my way up the brae and saw all the council houses I almost turned back dismissing the possibility of there being any evidence of older architecture . |
| 13 | After a few minutes I unexpectedly found myself singing a song which I was sure I had not sung since Eton days forty years before . |
| 14 | For ten minutes I never saw my float as the fish cruised up and down . |
| 15 | ‘ Loadsa times I nearly trod one into the ground . |
| 16 | I once played James ‘ Rocky ’ Mountain of the FBI in a ‘ Children 's Hour ’ programme , and when I saw my name in the Radio Times I just stared at it for ages . |
| 17 | It was one of the worst trips I ever made in Venturous and it was my last . |
| 18 | But of all the damn fighters I ever did see , |
| 19 | On those cases it , it usually evens itself out er it usually says oh due to roundings I 'll ignore that erm cos I 've actu erm I 've gained through the unit statement on , cos I 've had one of these stand alone policies , and not wishing to pay the one pound ninety I 've actually knocked it on the head now and incorporated it with another policy , but erm when we looked at it all , overall I 've got a nil unit situation but in some months I actually had negative units , some months I had a , a sort of like point zero one of a unit positive . |
| 20 | In the early months I still had my natural aversion to overcome , before I understood the fundamental strangeness of the process of fruition . |
| 21 | The books I actually borrowed from the library — the bad-tempered bump of the date stamp dying in my ears — were adventure stories . |
| 22 | One of the finest books I ever had to review was Janet and Allan Ahlbergs Funnybones , a brilliant tale of what a skeleton family gets up to at night when everyone else is in bed . |
| 23 | I I do second it because if all aspects I actually supported , that is to say I support that the the first part of the of the amendment which is the motion from the policy and resources committee as well as the bit that has been er added on erm as far as the latter is concerned I support it , largely for the reason that Mr has explained . |
| 24 | The first words I ever heard spoken in Cambo were ‘ A coffee please , not too strong , ’ which seemed to sum up this mild and cautious little town . |
| 25 | That were the first words I ever heard on |
| 26 | They were the best two words I ever heard in my life . |
| 27 | One of one of one of the most charming speakers I ever heard , he was . |
| 28 | Like she was high , not on booze or pills but some of that good mellow shit that used to go the rounds at the first dinner parties I ever went to , at Liza 's place , when the world was young and lovable . |
| 29 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 30 | But though they were excellent makers of models to other people 's plans and designs I quickly found they could only work well if they were given very detailed constructional drawings and plans . |