Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 When I reached home , my wife made me promise never to go to sea again , and I thought my adventures had come to an end .
2 Ryan made me promise never to tell you . ’
3 By the time we met I had almost reached The Old Castle Inn at Old Sarum and good old Dad bought me the largest ginger beer I 've ever had .
4 I realized I had never known any other world apart from Lowood or Gateshead .
5 He realised I had finally caught him …
6 About4 weeks ago I realised I had only put this in the hallway after the title season , and promptly took it down .
7 And the first man who pursued me did so to gouge a small fortune out of my father , to marry his true sweetheart and set himself up in business .
8 And the second man who pursued me did so to gain a large fortune , to spend on his long-term mistress and their children , and to laugh at the silly girl and her father who gave it to him .
9 At Frankfurt Airport I found I had just missed one plane to London and there was not another for three hours .
10 Some of the words he used I had never heard of — and I am not unfamiliar with words — but he savoured them , rolled them over his tongue and finally ejected them into his speech with a delight at their novelty , their colour and their music .
11 For example one woman set fire to her kitchen accidentally and the carer , her neighbour , realised that it would not be safe for her to remain at home ; another carer , a husband , found himself becoming so stressed that he struck his wife ; he then requested institutional care .
12 Her fingers began to move over the sheet of paper , but when she had finished drawing the circle of standing stones , she found she had also sketched in the figure of Julius .
13 You mentioned you cycle anyway to keep fit , fit do you — do you , you do n't cycle over this sort of terrain do you ?
14 From the moment I answered my door and found you standing there glaring at me . ’
15 Tried she said just alter it on P forty five ?
16 In the fine structure proposed we have only found a tendency towards the B II state ( with ε-ζ values of roughly -30° compared to -90° in B I and +90° in B II ) .
17 A woman police constable who reported him has since had to be transferred ‘ after being cold-shouldered ’ .
18 He maintained he had never received replies to letters or acknowledgement of seeds but the dispatch of the eighth edition of the Dictionary ( April 1768 ) awaited direction and then , with an unusually personal note , he excuses himself , ‘ … having had the misfortune to dislocate the ankelbone of my leg above a year and a half since gone … confinement and want of usual exercise has brought many maladies upon me , but I am in hope of proper remedies to prolong life a little longer . ’
19 The blood which flowed in his veins meant that , as well as expressing his emotions with the dramatic use of his hands , Vitor d'Arcos was a proud man — and she doubted he had ever begged anyone for anything in his entire life .
20 However , when he neared the blank concrete wall , he saw an opening to his right and found he had merely reached a ninety degree turn , round which the tunnel still stretched as far as his torch beam could reach .
21 Largely as a result of Wedd 's enthusiasm , I found myself becoming irresistibly attracted to the Scots pine — the solitary tree as well as the clump — not just as a potential ley mark point , but as something in its own right , I was not alone : legend seems to confirm the special nature of the pine .
22 ‘ All these years , Dad , I believed I 'd actually got some roots of my own , roots in this family , even a natural father in New Zealand — ’ She broke off and looked questioningly at her father .
23 I found the uncles and their wives , and the cousins , too , who were respectively scruffy and stuffy , trying and used to dread the annual get-together — though now I thought back to it it seemed I 'd always enjoyed it in the event .
24 There were alot of helicopters going overhead and when they came I have never seen children move so fast .
25 When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters .
26 The Maggot assumed I had already known that .
27 why , did n't say you were bored , your mother told you to think again did n't she ?
28 Some of her happiest hours were passed in making these costumes and she found that time flew by — it seemed she had barely started before her mother was calling for her to have her bath and go to bed .
29 After a few minutes ' walk it seemed she had truly left the hamlet of Pook 's Common behind .
30 She was as much a part of this murky landscape now as if she had been born here , every step of the way between Miss Gemma Dallam 's cloistered corner and her own — in spirit a universe apart — being so familiar to her that it seemed she had always known them , or had known them before , in another place , a dozen other places ; another life .
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