Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although it was customary for the same actor to double as Mr Darling and Captain Hook the way St Ives played them there seemed little difference between the two — he romped in the nursery and he sky-larked aboard the Jolly Roger . |
| 2 | Right , erm I told them just throw these out ! |
| 3 | She told me once to do some lines and I goes , ‘ It 's not worth you telling me to do them , because I wo n't do them ’ , and she goes , ‘ Well , I think you should do them ’ , and I goes , ‘ Well , I 'm not going to , so I do n't know what you 'll have to do with me ’ . |
| 4 | I told you before to get some mince and put potatoes in and that , see |
| 5 | Soon as the royal visitor had gone , he called us in and told us never to do such a thing again . |
| 6 | What 's , what made you actually choose this position ? |
| 7 | I find that the minute I write down , erm , you know , somebody phones me and says I want another meeting with you , let's make it for next Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon , and I find within half an hour of me writing that down on the calendar card in ink , er , the people who 's parentage I then start to question , phone back and say well whoops , you know we , we forgot we actually had another meeting then , and so on and so forth . |
| 8 | And it took me longer to do that than it took me to do tapestry . |
| 9 | Thought I just called that Silk Screen did n't I ? |
| 10 | I thought I actually gave all the sales figures we have . |
| 11 | The first former 's stared at her in surprise , they knew she never mended any thing if she could help it . |
| 12 | I was gon na buy some but I thought you usually buy some so |
| 13 | However , I felt we still needed more trials so that I could prove without doubt that my inch loss theory worked . |
| 14 | Those of us who knew him well see this as the beginning of his caring career which was evident in all that he did . |
| 15 | He thought they probably had enough tenants now . |
| 16 | But when Grandma died he just lost all interest in the garden , and since no one had the time to take it on , it became neglected . |
| 17 | The blackbirds that saw it quickly treated this bird as though it were potentially dangerous and mobbed it , even when their fellows could not see the owl and so were making no noise . |
| 18 | He had , of course , kept Nora posted on his acquisitions over the year , so she knew he already had more than half the land they were after . |
| 19 | I knew he now realized this was serious , but I was not sure I had got through to him how serious . |
| 20 | He was very interested in discovering whether the tattoo would grow as he grew and he thought he already detected some enlargement . |
| 21 | NO SNOW fell during the night and at 10.00 , after Erika had run her five kilometres under a dazzling blue sky , Karl ran and said that he thought he rather did that a brief tour of Berlin would be possible and that he would be waiting in the lounge of the Palast at 11.00 ; adding that Paul should meet them at the television Tower at 1.00 |
| 22 | And suddenly to my horror I saw our delightfully edited little film of The Seekers and Georgie Girl . |
| 23 | ‘ I think it made it easier knowing that I only had myself to blame . |
| 24 | Did someone just say that ? |
| 25 | Did I really want this young man — oh , not now , this minute , pressed on top of me — but tomorrow , and the days after , breathing down my neck ? |
| 26 | ‘ Are you rejecting me , or did I really make such little impression on you ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Did I really say that ? |
| 28 | Did I really need all this ? |
| 29 | But did I really need this ? |
| 30 | In the seven years we lived there , only once did I ever meet another fisherman on my favourite part of the river ; and over the years I came to know the South Tyne and its wildlife as well as Mole or Rat in Wind and the Willows ever knew their water . |