Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
| 2 | Eventually I asked for a transfer , but could n't get one , so I stayed and now I 'm glad I did . ’ |
| 3 | Eventually I qualified as a teacher and attended a course at Coburg ; nowadays I specialise in teaching disabled people , but also enjoy being an ordinary member of a local class ( which the Vicar kindly helps advertise ) . |
| 4 | ‘ They awarded me a seat behind a pillar for this French farce , but foolishly I moved to a place where I had a full view of the stage . |
| 5 | On my way down I pass through a forest of art deco bronze and ivory figures to be sold tomorrow . |
| 6 | So I went to a designer , Denise Vaughan of Deni Vee , and she made me a couple of suits which really pleased me and I believed that I was on to something . |
| 7 | Apart from a price list , so we had a price list , and I thought right so I went to a book shop and I tried to find a book on masks nothing . |
| 8 | So I advertised in a newspaper for a job as a governess . |
| 9 | So I put on a coat . |
| 10 | ‘ I became homeless in London so I got on a train and ended up here ; that 's all there is to it , really . ’ |
| 11 | So I mean from a couple of bits of information we could tell they had sheep , they probably ate them , teeth marks on it , things like that . |
| 12 | and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with |
| 13 | so they had like an hour break so I spent in a room . |
| 14 | To do so I drove into a petrol station by the BBC Television Centre in order to do a U-turn . |
| 15 | so I think in a way it would be quite nice to sit down with somebody from each of the colleges to hammer out the syllabus because Napier will see it from Napier 's point of view about what 's easiest for them to teach and what this and what the other whereas I suspect if you also sat down with and and people you might get a broader discussion base |
| 16 | So I confessed to a possibility , though it was only six weeks since Sintra and there was still room for doubt . ’ |
| 17 | Anyway , so I appeared before a Judge , the only time when I 've really been , he was judging me . |
| 18 | The season could have really slipped away I think with a defeat today , but erm still keeps the season a little bit bright . |
| 19 | the very next day anyway I sent for a doctor |
| 20 | I know that was you but y you do n't , I mean I remember u the fire we used to have here and it was n't till I gave it to a friend , I mean we kept here for a year alright , lucky enough , we did n't use it anyway I gave to a friend who doing car boot , I found it in the attic an he said to me Brenda , he said , did you ever use this fire ? |
| 21 | Oh yeah , yes , when I went , when I went to a , when I was in India I went to have a , cos I went , I went , I was in the singles section then , in Colchester , and I went out , and I went , not I went to a licence agent first , and then I went to the headquarters , Signals there , and the bloke I remembered best of all , I think , was oh Cakey , his name was and his initials were Cakey . |
| 22 | Innocently I pointed to a sign above the bar and asked Robins , ‘ What 's a thong ? ’ |
| 23 | His approach was to nudge me in certain directions , and very quickly I came to a number of revelations . |
| 24 | I 'll tell you what , when I was in school yesterday I went into a classroom and there , hanging in a classroom , was a skeleton made out of cardboard . |
| 25 | Time after time I stumbled over some hummock of tough grass , and once I went into a creek up to my shoulders . |
| 26 | My new fedora and Hamlet cigar accessories , more fitting to a winning manager than my old tartan pom-pom cap and ounce of Old Holborn , made me unrecognisable to most of the supporters and the nearest I received to a compliment came from a director who suggested I ‘ stick a faggot up my backside and clear off ’ . |
| 27 | Yes it is , it 's , it , it will be a bit frightening but like , I 've , I 've waited this long you know , so er anything they 're throwing up at me wo n't , wo n't be wo n't daunt me in any way because I 've been , like I went to a charity shield this season with Liverpool and they were playing Manchester United , there were sixty thousand there , and er I 'd have done anything just to get on there . |
| 28 | And I just stay at home and other stuff like I bunked off a couple of days , whole days of school . |
| 29 | Now , partly I think as a result of the numbers being fewer , but partly as a result of simply a greater awareness of need , I think , the schools are more caring places , they do try erm not to treat erm minority groups as just annoying variants on the majority group , they try to erm think through their problems and to help to meet them . |
| 30 | Before without really knowing it , I was just preparing for that one lesson to get through that one lesson , but partly I think as a matter of survival in this situation , because I had never taught children before and really did n't have an overview at that point . |