Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps someone got through on a short-wave transmitter ? ’ |
| 2 | I crept off down a little path through curling bracken . |
| 3 | Young Mrs M. looked shocked at the thought , so she waited outside , while I sprinted in for a quick glimpse at Bishop Stock 's former domain . |
| 4 | Of course , I fought back like a veritable lion but my sword and dagger were in the garret and who in the tavern would listen to my screams ? |
| 5 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 6 | He looked at me as though he had seen me somewhere before , but I passed by with a curt nod . |
| 7 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 8 | he was going round going oh my God I got off with a real dog . |
| 9 | ‘ Even when I got by on a fast straight , where the extra power of my machine was beneficial , I thought it might be part of his plan to let me go in front and force me into making a mistake . ’ |
| 10 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 11 | Devlin said , ‘ In forty-one , I got back on a neutral boat , a Brazilian cargo ship from Ireland that put in at Lisbon , but that 's a tricky one . |
| 12 | Klondyke Trading Co are responsible for providing a variety of straps for both the home market and the world , but as I found out on a recent visit there 's more to making one guitar strap than meets the eye , let alone producing thousands . |
| 13 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 14 | Then I branched out into a new area . |
| 15 | I staggered back to a cold bed but Margot and Phoebe had fled . |
| 16 | Collecting my thoughts I baited up with a fresh squid and cast back out to the same spot , bobbin on the needle and it was back to the bedchair . |
| 17 | On Easter Monday 1972 , I woke up to a new view of the world . |
| 18 | I came over for a short visit when my parents first moved here … ’ |
| 19 | After a few experiments , I came up with a reasonable facsimile of Rebecca 's accidental assemblage . |
| 20 | thank you and you would accept would n't you , that if we have a brochure , let us say printed for next January , January nineteen ninety four alright , and I came along as a retired person in the Spring of nineteen ninety five or indeed the Summer of nineteen ninety five , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen months later , those brochure figures will inevitably be out of date in the sense of being inaccurate would n't they ? |
| 21 | I thought you said there 'd be no problem if I came in on a six-month permit ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I came in with a bad knee and it just started getting worse , ’ the 13th-seeded Lendl said . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | I came out into a strange city — hardly knew my way around . |
| 25 | I realized I was lost when the sky suddenly lightened and I came out into a broad clearing . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I walked on past a dead cow and the arrow markers for the airstrip . |
| 28 | I popped in for a short while to the Scottish Gallery in Cork Street , to see the most recent sculptures by Gerald Laing . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Having said that , in some of the bits of Shoreditch I passed through I stuck out like a sore thumb . |