Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frontispiece from a copy of the music from the Peer Gynt suite by Grieg was a beautiful piece of artwork even before it was decorated , so I only arranged some flowers in two of the corners , rather than all the way round , which would have overpowered the original design . |
| 2 | I just read these things |
| 3 | No do n't come up I 'll slide this down it 's not very heavy , I just put some bits of stuff in , it 's not terribly heavy |
| 4 | ’ I just bought these shoes , ’ he says , pointing at a pair of brown brogues . |
| 5 | So , I just pulled some blankets over me and waited for somebody to come . |
| 6 | I already recognised some members of the Union Jack Club , and Colonel Fawcett gave me a hearty handshake while his thin , ill-looking wife reminded me about joining the bridge games . |
| 7 | I soon made some friends that day . |
| 8 | As expected , many people were willing to support my sponsored ‘ push ’ and I soon filled both sides of my sponsorship form . |
| 9 | In fact in our tenement " penthouse " I once unearthed several roller-skates which I cannibalised until finally there was only one , at which point I gave up the unequal struggle on a solo skate . |
| 10 | I once spent many months as a student using the papers of Francis Place , the radical reformer of early nineteenth-century Westminster . |
| 11 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 12 | On my mother 's instructions , I always refused any drinks that were offered when we went to visit her . |
| 13 | J : I always wanted those trousers that Olivia Newton-John wore . |
| 14 | Never ever been out of a union er till I retired cos I always paid these fees and er yes . |
| 15 | Keys I get them out I still lost those ones that I got with the matches . |
| 16 | I hardly wore any dresses . |
| 17 | At the convent a year ago I think I probably said many things which I wish now I had kept silent . |
| 18 | ‘ But I probably saw several men like that in all this trainload . |
| 19 | During this time , I also spent many minutes examining the road atlas , and perusing also the relevant volumes of Mrs Jane Symons 's The Wonder of England . |
| 20 | I also saw many examples of good practice where a teacher introduced children to terminology to discuss their own writings . |
| 21 | ‘ He has lately recovered his childhood faith , ’ Everard explained , ‘ as I also did some years ago . ’ |
| 22 | I told him I now knew many things I did n't know before . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't think I really had any doubts about them , ’ she said slowly at last . |
| 24 | I immediately chopped both engines , pulled the mixtures back and turned off the magnetos and master . |
| 25 | I even managed some shortswings at the top . |
| 26 | On a Saturday night I even saw some jewels . |
| 27 | I even took some photographs of myself crying so that I could show them to Marcus later and he could see how upset I had been . |
| 28 | At grammar school , of course , I had played rugby but I simply loved all sports . |
| 29 | I simply regarded these absences as a lesson , a foretaste of what it would be like when they became a permanence . |
| 30 | I then bought some designers ' gouache ( colourfast ) and found I could still paint wet into wet without the whole thing going into a swim as in a watercolour painting . |