Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I argued passionately for a top higher band . |
| 2 | And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again . |
| 3 | Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have . |
| 4 | Finally they helped me upstairs to a bedroom , and I sank gratefully into a warm , dry bed . |
| 5 | Otley was looking the other way as if he did n't know me when I tried again with a pleasant , motherly woman with a shopping basket full of goodies . |
| 6 | After primary school I moved away to a different High School but I have the photographs and certificates of achievement that I have worked for . |
| 7 | that there is , this grid lock situation I mentioned earlier on a larger scale has al already occurs er on the way in that er basically to Earls Court as I mentioned earlier it 's in Shepherds Bush . |
| 8 | I jerked upright with a hoarse cry . |
| 9 | He opened a door and I staggered gratefully into a sweet bovine warmth where a few shaggy little bullocks stood hock deep in straw . |
| 10 | I came here as a Chilean refugee . |
| 11 | Then there is that recipe for a sauce for lobster which I came across in a French dictionary of cooking of the 1830s . |
| 12 | I came home with a heavy heart and wondered how on earth I could foster vocations . |
| 13 | On another occasion I came home with a pulled hamstring . |
| 14 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 15 | Oh , yes , I got to know these well as I slunk past like a hungry fox in a deserted kitchen yard . |
| 16 | The last pitch was a real sting in the tail , but the perplexing moves up a short crack in a wall soon succumbed to brute force and determination and I swung exultantly over a final bulge on the monstrous , weathered holds to sit satiated on the plateau , soaking up the sun until Alec pulled over , grinning with triumph . |
| 17 | I returned home for a late tea and carefully explained to my mother what Dana had done , and tried to excuse the thoughtlessness that had caused her such a shock . |
| 18 | ‘ I flew there in a rickety old aeroplane with standing room only . |
| 19 | Inspector Drew was looking at me very closely , and I felt rather like a naughty schoolboy under the stern gaze of the headmaster . |
| 20 | I struggled manfully for a few minutes , neatly nicking Ann 's fishing hat off , which we had to row after to recover ; catching Alan 's flies , on a back cast , and finally managing to get floss and line mixed up in an unbelievably intricate tangle . |
| 21 | When they were well out of the way we made tracks for home and I looked forward to a quiet evening . |
| 22 | Recently I went outside on a clear night , and started to count the stars I could see inside the Square ; using × 7 . |
| 23 | I was lucky I went straight into a trusty 's job , and I could work at weekends as well , and I earned good money : £2.63 a week . |
| 24 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 25 | The do that in wonderful community centre , I went there to a good function the other evening , very good fish and chips and as well . |
| 26 | And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |
| 27 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 28 | Oh I w I went there as a young girl . |
| 29 | Of course I dealt also with a large number of other factors , highways , environmental considerations , archaeology . |
| 30 | well we ca n't go into the reasons for that but I said let's respect the reasons I said if that 's how you feel I said , you 're a man you you must make your own decisions I said probably in a few months time you 'll come |