Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home , I mooched about in a pair of basketball boots mended with a bicycle repair kit , eating ketchup on bread , and staring at a wart on my finger the size and texture of a tiny cauliflower . |
| 2 | I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded . |
| 3 | I was quite stunned , because in the beginning I was struggling with it — all those regions around top A — and in the end , in Resurrection , I got up to a D above that , without going into falsetto , which was quite a little crusade for me . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | I got off with a lot of things . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the end , I got in through a hole in the side , but it was n't easy . |
| 8 | I suppose the reason I got down to an effort to be objective is that I did n't like the interpretations of my other things — so here I am with an array of alligator pears — about ten of them — calla lilies — four or six — leaves — summer green ones — ranging through yellow to the dark sombre blackish purplish red — eight or ten — horrid yellow sunflowers — two new red cannas — some white birches with yellow leaves — only two that I have no name for and I do n't know where they come from . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And when I found out after a bit of dressing-room chat what the other lads were on I had to make a point . |
| 11 | Then I moved on to an Australian made Maton which was really playable . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I charged in like a bull . |
| 14 | Then I wandered around for a while , casting wistful glances at my tables . |
| 15 | I wandered around for a while , in a bit of a daze , and then strolled back here . |
| 16 | I wandered around for a bit and then came back again . |
| 17 | When I wandered out for a surf-check in the morning , Michael was sitting on the bench . |
| 18 | I flopped down onto a bean bag and took a sip of my tea . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I woke up after an hour or so , and just leaned out of the window looking at the half-empty Main Street . |
| 21 | I WOKE UP in a terrarium , half in and half out of a stagnant pool . |
| 22 | ‘ On one occasion I woke up from an operation in hospital and asked her if she had brought my Echo . ’ |
| 23 | I sauntered about for an hour before I could find Sir James Macdonald … |
| 24 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 25 | Well , I do n't know what she might have told you , but I racked my memory and I came up with a name . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
| 29 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 30 | 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 . |