Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all . |
2 | Adèle was hoping Mr Rochester would call her down to meet the guests , but in the end she was so tired with all the excitement that she and I both went to bed early . |
3 | Well er School , but I never went to school not un , at five . |
4 | ’ You would n't believe the sufferings of scarlet women , Mr. K. George and I never went on holiday together . |
5 | She always felt at home here . |
6 | She still went to church occasionally , she loved the singing , and in spite of her husband 's example , she still told me ‘ Not to take the Lord 's name in vain . ’ |
7 | It was another dull day , but , suitably attired , she later went by taxi up to the house . |
8 | Always told yer mother you never went to bed early enough . ’ |
9 | The frenzied living for ourselves which we once used to value so highly now disappears before the far more vital longing to keep company with God in faith , hope and love . |
10 | We really felt at home here from the first time we came . |
11 | We all had a similar colonial background and were desperate to ‘ fit in ’ and be accepted — so we never talked of racism directly . |
12 | I thought I might have problems here , because the inside mitre on the four outer glazing bars created a slight undercut for assembling the curved outer members in the horizontal plane , but I found that by locating the curved members on the bottom rail first , then swinging the tops in on a slight curve , they just clicked into place nicely . |
13 | They even went to war together . |
14 | They even went on holiday together . |
15 | They never ran in service again . |
16 | It only came to light today . ’ |
17 | Did they actually , they thought then it just ended like drop off . |
18 | He still seemed in charge there . ’ |
19 | He also helped to hand out Bibles . |
20 | Cairns-Smith 's view of the DNA/protein machinery is that it probably came into existence relatively recently , perhaps as recently as three billion years ago . |
21 | Although Traherne held the living of Credenhill until his death in 1674 , it is not clear for how long he actually acted as minister there . |