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

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1 When I came back and found the cottage demolished , naturally in distress and amazement , I asked around in the village .
2 When you 're having another one of those parties I read about in the Sport .
3 You and I met once in the past , but now our lives are separate .
4 That I got up in the night and walked into an open press . ’
5 I got up in the night and took fish out of your barrels , Harry Pascoe , 'cos I could n't abide the thought of being wed to you , do you hear me ?
6 Chip slept in a chair in the kitchen and was always at the door to greet me when I got up in the morning .
7 No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know .
8 No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know .
9 So when I got up in the morning this bloody landlord was here , full side of beef , oh , I said , I do n't want that bugger going home in that and getting stopped Full side of beef !
10 Oh , yes , it took me a bit of time to recognise you , but I got there in the end .
11 My Rudd Cup football medal would nestle in its cotton wool till I got back in the holidays .
12 Unlikely though it may seem , as I wandered miserably in the snow in a duffle coat , puffing my pipe , around the cobblestones and concrete of Wilhelmshaven , I was still , in naval terms , serving aboard a ship , HMS Royal Rupert to be precise .
13 This is the essential logic of asymmetrical circulating exchange systems of the Kula type , which I mentioned earlier in the context of my discussion of generalized exchange and which so puzzled Malinowski .
14 ‘ I had similar problems when I stopped over in the Brown Islands , ’ he said .
15 Somebody did , I learnt later in the day and so did Viscount Lewisham , president of MCC .
16 I flopped down in the seat but missed and landed on the floor .
17 I woke up in the night a pain here
18 ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night and could n't get back to sleep , so I decided to bake a cake , after all .
19 ‘ A couple of months before the wedding , I woke up in the middle of the night worrying about the arrangements , and the only thought in my head was ‘ Russia ’ .
20 Claudia , who can be seen on the show tonight , says : ‘ I woke up in the middle of the night in absolute agony .
21 I woke up in the middle of the night .
22 I woke up in the middle of the night and took all of Jay 's clothes out of the wardrobe .
23 I woke up in the middle of the night to find that I was completely and utterly saturated .
24 ‘ But I woke up in the middle of the night in agony .
25 I woke up in the afternoon of the ninth of February to tennis-ball-sized sore eyes and a dirty pink mist , and searingly painful lights .
26 I felt good when I woke up in the morning and I thought , ‘ Yeah this is it , I 'm going . ’
27 When I woke once in the night I could feel the north wind blowing softly on my cheek , and knew we would have good sailing the next day .
28 I was before I came up in the world , true , but lower-middle-class , not working-class .
29 Billy ( Nottingham ) and I came down in the afternoon to help .
30 So anyway er I mean being a keen motorcyclist I borrowed a Moto Guzzi last year , you know a big V twin , beautiful bike , I went up into Derbyshire and had a you know ride on it , and thought well that 's not bad , see I 've always had British bikes , and I think I might g I might get one of those , so I came back in the house put the helmet down and said hey that Guzzi 's not bad , I could get a decent one for about two thousand you know about nineteen eighty , you know nice Le Mans Two .
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