Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suddenly got out of bed half naked . |
| 2 | This took the form of teasing , mostly , and one day I was so fed up that I just walked out of school . |
| 3 | ‘ But as soon as we got to the line I realised he was going to keel over with me and I just hopped off in time . |
| 4 | ‘ I just nipped over to Dancer 's for a swim . ’ |
| 5 | So I just run round with 'oover and dusted and polished , then I made a cup of tea . |
| 6 | ‘ I finally freaked out on LSD and went a bit mad . |
| 7 | I finally got out of reception at around half-past seven , after going through the whole procedure , marking off all my stuff again ( which was checked before leaving Holloway ) , and a strip search . |
| 8 | I once went out to dinner and discovered that the seven other people present had all just finished reading A Dance to the Music of Time . |
| 9 | A master might also hit you with a pencil box on the buttocks , if you had n't learnt your " verbs " and I was once shaken so violently for crossing out a word in my exercise book when I had been told not to , that I nearly fell down with giddiness . |
| 10 | I nearly passed out on floor ! |
| 11 | ‘ I nearly stepped off into space . |
| 12 | There was a bet of £1,500 to win £18,000 , so someone also came out on top there and will no doubt be feeling far from harshly treated . |
| 13 | During recent reporting of The Dangerous Dogs Act , I often spoke up on behalf of dogs that many people might otherwise have had put down — I think the owners are at fault for not acting responsibly . |
| 14 | Probably , in those days , I was a bit of an ideological innocent — shamingly , I even singled out for praise the ostentatiously populist action of one member of the national executive . |
| 15 | The light was changing very rapidly and I simply ran out of time . |
| 16 | I then went off for lunch which was soup and crayfish . |
| 17 | I then went off on holiday and forgot all about it . |
| 18 | I then turned back onto Sky Sports only to catch the last 5 minutes or so . |
| 19 | I almost ran back to South London , to Jamila 's place . |
| 20 | I never ran out of change , or thirst . |
| 21 | The longest-running powder ski of this type was the Fischer Future Extreme , which only went out of production a couple of years ago . |
| 22 | A petrol bomb was hurled at police as they chased a car containing two men which later careered out of control and plunged 12 feet into a river near Devizes , Wilts , yesterday . |
| 23 | Then , though he boasted of this and that , it was with an underlying modesty which often spilled over into self-mockery . |
| 24 | Having entered for the shot putt and having practised by throwing half bricks at our next-door neighbour 's cat ( which happily stayed out of range of the missiles whilst becoming increasingly terrified by my ever-improving grunts ) I arrived at school feeling pretty confident . |
| 25 | The SNC meteorites are not suspected of being material ejected from Earth following a major impact and which subsequently fell back to Earth . |
| 26 | Eight years ago the plant had 27 production controllers and nothing ever went out on time . |
| 27 | The Gulf War may have been responsible for the postponement of the finals of the Head/Isrotel/Tennis World tournament , which were due to be staged at the end of 1990 , for one year , but it certainly did n't dampen the enjoyment of the 12 regional winners who eventually took off for Eliat at the end of November 1991 . |
| 28 | Once she suddenly landed up in hospital for what was not an emergency ; several times she had found herself in a new home ; and on one occasion she had arrived in another country with a new ‘ father ’ — all without warning or previous explanation . |
| 29 | A sudden thought struck Katherine Lundy and she suddenly sat up in bed . |
| 30 | She naturally felt out of place in their chalet and accepted the invitation of Simon Berry , the son of a wealthy wine merchant , to join his chalet party . |