Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the next morning I was up at the top gate on picket and erm came with his van and he he spelted up through and the lads jumped one side well , I 'm nearly sixty five I did n't jump so quickly . |
| 2 | But I was up against a big , strong lad called Eddie Evans in the Canada game and that was very hard work . |
| 3 | Yeah , I know th th th there 's three floors of it and I was , I was on like the bottom floor so |
| 4 | I enrolled for ‘ Art for Beginners ’ and later went down to the centre where the tutor had obtained a model for us from whom to do quick sketches — so I was in at the deep end . |
| 5 | Most of the Labour front bench , including Neil Kinnock , were in their places and the predictions were that I was in for a stormy time . |
| 6 | Too soon , I was out on the other side , dazzled , like a man leaving a cinema in the afternoon . |
| 7 | So so really you 've got er I was out on the medical practices so I know how successful that can be . |
| 8 | Yet she would have been upstairs with the old man before I was out of the moonlit yard . |
| 9 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 10 | I thought I was off on the usual , rather tedious type of assignment ! |
| 11 | Ten minutes later I was down on the private beach . |
| 12 | The hour winged past and it seemed no time at all before I was back on the top road waiting in the gathering darkness for the Scarborough bus . |
| 13 | By the 8th June , I was back in the front line . |
| 14 | So by November of the year I left Cambridge I was back in the black — being in the West End had enabled me to pay the overdraft off . |
| 15 | Continuing on past the huge oak door I had observed from the outside was another passage leading to a cloakroom , as the euphemism goes , otherwise a loo and wash basin and turning right I was back in the main area . |
| 16 | But she was frank and inaccessible as a Modigliani nude ; and I was back in the green glow of the glade — except that this time I too was observed . |
| 17 | ‘ She was up for the entire morning , and this afternoon she must rest . |
| 18 | Nutty thought she was on to a good idea and went home happily , taking over from her mother in the shop as she usually did while her mother started to get the tea . |
| 19 | Then a whoosh , and she was out in the painful , bright light . |
| 20 | Louisa arrived in time to hear this and to see , a moment later , the tears start to Frere 's eyes , then she was down beside the unconscious woman , holding her head . |
| 21 | All she knew was that she was back at the closed door with a tray , wondering what Harold and Felicity might be doing on the other side . |
| 22 | She was back in the other chair watching me , a curiously intent look on her face . |
| 23 | She was back in the abandoned warehouse . |
| 24 | She was back in the proper life . |
| 25 | Clare was told she was in for a long stay in bed , and Mother moved in a divan to sleep next to her . |
| 26 | But he was a most willing worker , and although she knew she was in for a tough day without him she offered her sympathy , and advised , ‘ Take an Alka-Seltzer and go back to bed . |
| 27 | Now she knew she was in for an unpleasant surprise . |
| 28 | It was her first appearance in a Willy Russell play so she was in at the deep end . |
| 29 | As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion . |
| 30 | I 'd come across that and used that intravenously and thought well I really enjoy this and at the time the people who I knew were breaking into chemists and things , they used to come across very powerful substances , diamorphine , crystallised cocaine , morphine , that whole range of opiates and also amphetamines , black bombers and all the rest of it and then opium became more available on the streets and it was round about the same price as cannabis was at the time … . |