Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded . |
| 2 | ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’ |
| 3 | I got off with a lot of things . |
| 4 | That 's basically when I got in with a guy in Memphis and we started Fernwood Records , and I got interested in the engineering side of it . |
| 5 | In the end , I got in through a hole in the side , but it was n't easy . |
| 6 | The bike 's many gears , light frame and thinnish tyres also make it highly suitable for cycle touring , as I found out on a weekend 's cycling trip in Normandy . |
| 7 | And when I found out after a bit of dressing-room chat what the other lads were on I had to make a point . |
| 8 | I changed over to a lure I 'd bought in Hobart , the aptly named Tasmanian Devil , and I began to get the odd flathead on it and not bad fish either . |
| 9 | I charged in like a bull . |
| 10 | Then I wandered around for a while , casting wistful glances at my tables . |
| 11 | I wandered around for a while , in a bit of a daze , and then strolled back here . |
| 12 | I wandered around for a bit and then came back again . |
| 13 | When I wandered out for a surf-check in the morning , Michael was sitting on the bench . |
| 14 | I flopped down onto a bean bag and took a sip of my tea . |
| 15 | I often used to get stomach-ache if I had n't had enough to eat so when I woke up with a pain I thought maybe I was hungry again , but because the baby was due any day I thought it best to tell my mum . |
| 16 | I WOKE UP in a terrarium , half in and half out of a stagnant pool . |
| 17 | ‘ A few weeks ago , someone came up to a tagger with the KWS tagging crew , ’ Boyle said . |
| 18 | Well , I do n't know what she might have told you , but I racked my memory and I came up with a name . |
| 19 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
| 20 | Finally , I came up with a plan which , while perhaps not exactly as Mr Farraday had requested , was the best , I felt sure , that was humanly possible . |
| 21 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
| 22 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 23 | I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off . |
| 24 | Eventually , after canvassing ideas from virtually everyone in the department , I came up with a design , using egg boxes and colanders which Blue Peter decided to use . |
| 25 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 26 | The first time I came up against a woman comandante … |
| 27 | A passion born of the habit I came by as a girl at school . |
| 28 | ‘ I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I came in for a lot of adulation during my racing days — groupies . |
| 30 | On Saturday 4 June , I came in from a morning 's canvassing in Sutton Coldfield to find an urgent message to call Conservative Central Office . |