Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | He also gave me whole tins of peaches in syrup ; I ate so many that eventually I broke out in a painful rash . |
| 33 | I settled in for a relaxed , warm overview on the world high up in the comfy cab . |
| 34 | However , I settled down with a new teacher for both piano and violin . |
| 35 | I developed a pretty good ear , although I started out as a complete idiot . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | I looked round for a living man to admire and follow . |
| 38 | I looked round for a split second . |
| 39 | Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in . |
| 40 | I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings . |
| 41 | I looked up into a bloated quivering face with three days ' growth of beard . |
| 42 | Crossing the humpy floor , I looked out of a doorless doorway and saw , half hidden in the grass , the red tiles of the porch where the young Harvey-Beaumonts had sat , celebrating St George 's Day by tapping their feet to the brassy music of the band of the Black and Tans . |
| 43 | Dazed , I looked down at a little girl with wide , solemn eyes . |
| 44 | I reached over for a large tin on my right , prised the tight lid off with my knife and used a small teaspoon inside to place some of the white mixture from the tin on to a round metal plate in front of the old dog 's skull . |
| 45 | I strode off along a grassy cliff-top path peppered with stunted gorse bushes , towards the grey lookout tower where a mounted wall-exhibition explains that this stretch of coast is a designated Nature Reserve on account of its abundant birds , wildlife and rare limestone rock formations . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | I went out with a new boy for a while and we fell in love . |
| 48 | This week , I went out in a new , ankle-length skirt for the first time . |
| 49 | Surkov , in a Yale T-shirt , was sitting alone at a table when I went down to a late breakfast . |
| 50 | I went back at a slow run , glowing with energy and feeling even better than I had at the start of the Run . |
| 51 | Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number . |
| 52 | ‘ I went along as a 10-year-old and watched the shows four times a day . |
| 53 | When I was living in my former role I went along to a lesbian meeting , thinking that might be what I was , but what I wanted was a relationship with a woman as a man . |
| 54 | He grew up rich in beauty ; I grew up under a miserly , penny-pinching sky , in the niggardly light of England where , for three months of the year , it gets dark soon after lunch and for three more it does n't bother getting light at all . |
| 55 | I grew up in a small mining village on the outskirts of Rotherham during the fifties and sixties . |
| 56 | I grew up in a big way over there . ’ |
| 57 | As a kid at Oldham , I took over from a long-established fixture in the side at Boundary Park , Peter McDonald , and had most of my mistakes during games forgiven because I was so young . |
| 58 | It was really too cold for the clothes I had brought , so I fell back on a recommended resource . |
| 59 | I was feeling low and I gave in to a mad impulse . ’ |
| 60 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |