Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became quite a celebrity because of it . |
| 2 | After a further period of three months or so , Don Bennett appointed me Group training inspector — and I became virtually a horse thief ! |
| 3 | I lived quite a lot of my early childhood at the Thompsons ' house behind a shop on Harehills Parade . |
| 4 | He used to make the black and whites and the black coats with a silk stripe ; and I quite thought they were costermongers until I went to help a friend of mine — she kept a public house — and I met quite a lot of them there . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's OK , Maggie , I got here a bit late as well , but they were waiting , you did n't run away did you , loves ? |
| 6 | ‘ I got quite a shock . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I got quite a surprise . |
| 8 | I got quite a lot of reading done — John managed to persuade one of the nice Italian staff at the British Council Library to let me have two more books than my five allowed , so I had them on her ticket ! |
| 9 | So I got quite a lot of old tools , really old ones |
| 10 | I tried again a week later . |
| 11 | After about a month I rang and was told I 'd be hearing something soon , and when I did n't I phoned again a month or so later and was told the same . |
| 12 | You may recall that I proposed earlier a scheme to do just that — namely , the registration of a new entry , but accompanied by a code known to the Registrar which would alert him in any case of attempted fraud . |
| 13 | Bit I learnt quite a lot in , from the back you know , in the terraced . |
| 14 | I came here a bit early this evening , and I did n't want to risk any of those clamps or fines or anything . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ When I came here a month ago , they did n't have any confidence . |
| 16 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , ’ she said carefully , ‘ as I believe I intimated just a moment ago , I 'm just about to leave . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And as I intimated just a moment ago , ’ his voice was coldly mocking as he threw her words back at her , ‘ I need a haircut . ’ |
| 18 | Then as I hauled inexorably a nose appeared , then a head , then all of the big animal hanging limply by his collar . |
| 19 | I gave her a carriage and jewels , in fact I threw away a fortune on her , just like any fool in love . |
| 20 | In the 1980s I raised quite a bit of money for Sainsbury 's charities . |
| 21 | Clinging onto things , breathing little , inching a slow way forwards , I achieved again a sort of numbness to my basic state and in looking upwards to the stars at every pause felt lighter and more disembodied than before . |
| 22 | When I spoke to the Conservative association in the hon. Gentleman 's constituency I heard only a litany of problems caused by the Labour-controlled council , which has done absolutely nothing to promote the area . |
| 23 | Silver sent Dick to fetch the rum , then Israel said something to the cook in a low voice , and I heard only a word or two . |
| 24 | With extra exercise and lots of lapses I lost nearly a stone , and it stayed off ! |
| 25 | In my first week , I lost nearly a stone but since then I 've only lost a couple of pounds a week . |
| 26 | for three weeks now I 've been stuck on eleven stone , I got , I lost nearly a stone in first five or six weeks , now I 've stopped |
| 27 | In fact I felt rather a lout in my working clothes among the elegant gathering . |
| 28 | I felt now a tightness in my chest instead ; the old displaced feelings of worship that come when words fall before wonder . |
| 29 | I admired the speech of the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) , one of the more distinguished orators in the House , against whom I debated only a week or two ago in the Oxford Union . |
| 30 | ‘ I meant just a judgement in general ! ’ |