Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rarely drink in the week , and I 've never acquired a taste for wine . |
| 2 | They drive me to distraction : at first I refuse to fight back , on the grounds that life is sacred and it is not their fault that they are mosquitos , but I eventually join in the swatting that punctuates the quiet every so often . |
| 3 | Mrs Nicholas Beaumont , whose husband is Clerk of the Course , and whom I only saw in the distance ; Mr and Mrs Oliver Sherwood , Major and Mrs Peter Wiggin , Mr and Mrs Tim Dawson , Mr Harry Middleton , Mrs Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie , Colonel and Mrs Tommy Wallis , and their daughter Mrs Charles Baker ; Mr and Mrs John Guest , Mrs Tom Scott , Mr Peter Dimmock , and Mrs George Beeby . |
| 4 | No I did n't , I only went in the hall for that paper . |
| 5 | ‘ I only stayed in the hall for a couple of seconds . |
| 6 | Somehow I just knew in the end we would get back to the subject of money ! |
| 7 | and Clifford , no Clifford said , the lads to each other are we going out again dad you know cos oh Margaret was in , yes , and there was some other boys , the boy across the road was eating something and the boys said and Clifford said do you mind if I just sit in the chair and be quiet for just a few minutes and he just sat in the chair and had his heart attack |
| 8 | When she 's crying with pain for something like a migraine headache , I just sit in the dark with her and hold her hand . |
| 9 | She was working in the er cupboard so I just pu I just put in the key because when Barbara come in she did n't lock it you see . |
| 10 | I just put in the dustbin , it just gone . |
| 11 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 12 | I just looked in the window then went away . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I just looked in the larder and I 've only got four . |
| 14 | I just hid in the corner until the bizzies had gone . |
| 15 | It was terrible , I just sat in the house all day and when my husband was n't working he 'd just scream at me and the kids would be screaming and he 'd be hitting them . " |
| 16 | I just sat in the dressing-room with my head in my hands hating myself for what I 'd done . ’ |
| 17 | In fact I just stand in the middle of the bedroom looking like a favourite rich uncle on a flying visit from South America , urging her to choose where she 'd like to eat , and not worry about the cost . |
| 18 | ‘ I just packed in the cycling eight years back , ’ says Pat senior , a contemporary of local stars such as Davy Kane and Maurice Foster . |
| 19 | They do n't always dress up of course but I soon got in the habit by trying on a Tommy Cooper-styled fez . |
| 20 | Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + + |
| 21 | See my nick name in the T A was Vicky , she probably felt save with somebody named Vicky see people started called me van witty and then it got changed to Wicky then somebody started called me Vicky and it stuck , she probably thought I 'd got a You know when I look back now I fucking enjoyed in the T A |
| 22 | I once worked in the shopfloor in a factory , putting cream on to cream cakes , when I finished college , and they took me out and put me in the lab even though I did n't have any science degree , and I was in the labs for three months . |
| 23 | For eating purposes Orkney Cheddar is pretty soapy and bears no resemblance whatever to a cheese actually brought from the Orkneys which I once tasted in the house of Edinburgh friends of mine . |
| 24 | Far worse than anything I ever met in the south . |
| 25 | Every skill I ever learned in the Art of Coarse Acting I learned in that sweaty cloakroom before Double Hockey . |
| 26 | knock and shove me but I always get in the way . |
| 27 | I always stayed in the Beverly Hills Hotel . |
| 28 | Sometimes actually I think ‘ Oh I 'd like to go back to work ’ — to be in that hubbub — because I always worked in the West End and there was something about the atmosphere — being dressed all day … |
| 29 | My children said it is the best learning game they have played , and I agree with them even though I still land in the water in level two . |
| 30 | It 's , it 's like the one aunty Lynne had and I , I bought for aunty Lynne , years ago , that I still got in the cupboard you know . |