Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I came in with a bad knee and it just started getting worse , ’ the 13th-seeded Lendl said . |
| 32 | I came in as a young teacher , enthusiastic , full of new ideas but you soon find that the old attitudes rub off on you , and so you end up thinking , ‘ Oh , why am I doing this ? |
| 33 | I came out into a strange city — hardly knew my way around . |
| 34 | I realized I was lost when the sky suddenly lightened and I came out into a broad clearing . |
| 35 | Then there is that recipe for a sauce for lobster which I came across in a French dictionary of cooking of the 1830s . |
| 36 | I came home with a heavy heart and wondered how on earth I could foster vocations . |
| 37 | On another occasion I came home with a pulled hamstring . |
| 38 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 39 | Oh , yes , I got to know these well as I slunk past like a hungry fox in a deserted kitchen yard . |
| 40 | To pass the heaving multitudes on the track , I raced up like a fell runner , unhappily only to find each time I successfully overtook what looked like a queue for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that there were further extensive crocodiles of people ahead . |
| 41 | I walked on past a dead cow and the arrow markers for the airstrip . |
| 42 | I popped in for a short while to the Scottish Gallery in Cork Street , to see the most recent sculptures by Gerald Laing . |
| 43 | The last pitch was a real sting in the tail , but the perplexing moves up a short crack in a wall soon succumbed to brute force and determination and I swung exultantly over a final bulge on the monstrous , weathered holds to sit satiated on the plateau , soaking up the sun until Alec pulled over , grinning with triumph . |
| 44 | The ceremony was hosted by a couple dressed in matching velvet Babygros , his tipped off by a woolly bobble , hers with what appeared to be a cat 's tail . |
| 45 | Having said that , in some of the bits of Shoreditch I passed through I stuck out like a sore thumb . |
| 46 | I returned home for a late tea and carefully explained to my mother what Dana had done , and tried to excuse the thoughtlessness that had caused her such a shock . |
| 47 | I must admit that we ourselves started out with a strong women 's following , but I think that 's because of society and the way men are brought up not to be so immediately emotional . |
| 48 | By Luke 's own admission he saw her as shallow , someone interested only in a good time and a string of boyfriends . |
| 49 | ‘ I flew there in a rickety old aeroplane with standing room only . |
| 50 | He also gave me whole tins of peaches in syrup ; I ate so many that eventually I broke out in a painful rash . |
| 51 | I settled in for a relaxed , warm overview on the world high up in the comfy cab . |
| 52 | However , I settled down with a new teacher for both piano and violin . |
| 53 | I developed a pretty good ear , although I started out as a complete idiot . |
| 54 | I started off with a random set of guesses as to how to break the code , and then checked each guess to see how good it was at turning the garbled message into English . |
| 55 | Inspector Drew was looking at me very closely , and I felt rather like a naughty schoolboy under the stern gaze of the headmaster . |
| 56 | When they were well out of the way we made tracks for home and I looked forward to a quiet evening . |
| 57 | I looked round for a living man to admire and follow . |
| 58 | I looked round for a split second . |
| 59 | Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in . |
| 60 | I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings . |