Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two weeks later I lined up in the 200 metres , one tight-bended lap of the track , in the AAA Indoor Championships , again meeting Phil Brown . |
| 2 | I was thoughtful as I headed off in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head . |
| 4 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 5 | and I went out to tell him and he started talking to me for something and when I came back in the fucking milk ! |
| 6 | He also gave me whole tins of peaches in syrup ; I ate so many that eventually I broke out in a painful rash . |
| 7 | As I settled down in the straw-filled barn that I had left a few moments ago in search of food , I looked around at the now sleeping Frenchman , stretched out in the straw . |
| 8 | ‘ Mind you , there does n't seem to have been a moment 's peace since I started out in the Irish News away back in 1929 . |
| 9 | With heavy heart , fearing the worst , I felt round in the cold nest . |
| 10 | As I looked round in the pale dawn light , a piece of paper caught my eye . |
| 11 | I lay back in the long chair . |
| 12 | And I lay back in the cradling pouch-seat , enjoying the feeling of being safe and relaxed — and financially secure for a while , with that fee safely tucked away in my Fedbank account . |
| 13 | But this would be to simplify things for , as I have argued , black kids generally come from the kind of family backgrounds which are not suited for their own educational needs — for reasons which I spelled out in the last chapter , but will summarize as ‘ neglect ’ or ‘ unattainable goals ’ . |
| 14 | You 're much too young to be thinking about boys , when I was your age I went around in a big friendly group , plenty of time for all that later on . |
| 15 | This week , I went out in a new , ankle-length skirt for the first time . |
| 16 | ‘ I had the chance to go out when there were only four cars on the track , but I made them change the car which meant I went out in the busy section . ’ |
| 17 | and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks |
| 18 | I did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave . |
| 19 | I grew up in a small mining village on the outskirts of Rotherham during the fifties and sixties . |
| 20 | I grew up in a big way over there . ’ |
| 21 | In Liverpool , where I grew up in the early 1960s , one could no more not have an interest in football than fly to the moon . |
| 22 | ‘ I grew up in the Swinging Sixties , ’ she broke in : ‘ Beatlemania , flower children , magic mushrooms . |
| 23 | ‘ He and I grew up in the same town . |
| 24 | ‘ I grew up in the same street as Alex Maskey , ’ said Mr Blair who also knew SF 's Paddy McManus many years ago . |
| 25 | I smiled back in a half-witted way that would have terrified a woman of less spirit . |
| 26 | Once I dressed up in a big , black shag wig , really tacky . |
| 27 | I leaned back in the wooden chair and stretched . |
| 28 | As I reeled around in the meaty steam a little tune tinkled repetitively in my mind ; it was the song Siegfried and I were forever singing as we waited to enter the RAF , the popular jingle which In our innocence we thought typified the new life ahead . |
| 29 | For the first days , weeks even , I carried on in a light-headed and even giddy way . |
| 30 | When I arrived at the Demob Centre , I sat around in a bare hall for what seemed like a couple of hours , with two or three hundred other Waafs , and we stared at each other without interest . |