Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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1 | Eventually I ended up in the Sealink arrival lounge . |
2 | So anyway er I mean being a keen motorcyclist I borrowed a Moto Guzzi last year , you know a big V twin , beautiful bike , I went up into Derbyshire and had a you know ride on it , and thought well that 's not bad , see I 've always had British bikes , and I think I might g I might get one of those , so I came back in the house put the helmet down and said hey that Guzzi 's not bad , I could get a decent one for about two thousand you know about nineteen eighty , you know nice Le Mans Two . |
3 | So I hung around in the sun a couple of hours and when I got to the station there 's a car in the car-park with the old guy in the back , and he has friends . ’ |
4 | So I sat down in the warm , and ate the man 's breakfast . |
5 | Perhaps she drifted off in the bath . |
6 | So we came back in the dark , there were fifteen of us in th this jeep bouncing up and down so that was quite fun too . |
7 | Together they rode along in the dark , Tess holding on to Alec . |
8 | Anyway he woke up in the middle of the night , sat up and spewed up all over Sandra ! |
9 | Finally he lay down in the snow and determined to die , for his stamina had failed him and he had not found the Dwarves ; and he did not want to go back to the life of killing he had led . |
10 | Wish all over home she fired back in the rapid , unpunctuated shorthand of spelling and sign , blinking through the thick lenses of her glasses . |
11 | ‘ And once he woke up in the early morning , and saw a rat in the middle of the floor , looking at him . |
12 | Eventually we came out in the comparative brightness of the open space behind the house . |
13 | Eventually we ended up in the basement . |
14 | Two weeks later I lined up in the 200 metres , one tight-bended lap of the track , in the AAA Indoor Championships , again meeting Phil Brown . |
15 | Later she dug about in the fridge ; and although the result was depressing , she did find and consume two pots of yoghurt , a hunk of cheese and a slice of ham which had begun to curl up at its edges . |
16 | Two nights later he woke up in the small hours and lay there coldly . |
17 | Later it came out in the press , there were some shocking pictures , and one of the company 's officers , Lieutenant William Calley ( 25 ) , was put on trial for war crimes . |
18 | Well they got down in the grass you see . |
19 | Usually Pete liked to look down and watch the traffic from the window in the living room but today he bobbed about in the kitchen until Mum filled the basin with hot soapy water and scrubbed the driving wheel clean . |
20 | Well it went up in the air . |
21 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
22 | And er then I carried on in the woodlands then , cutting trees down and erm sawing up too . |
23 | Course I hung around in the park instead of going to clarinet lessons . |
24 | Alexandra would find her by the fire in the drawing-room in the afternoons , the Pekinese guarding her against invisible dangers , then she came down in the mornings and needed letters written , wools held . |
25 | Then she flopped down in the chair opposite . |
26 | And then she perked up in the evening , I think she wanted to play tennis and then she was alright Friday . |
27 | Then she sat down in the middle of the court . |
28 | Swiftly and almost silently she ran along in the darker shadows beneath the gable to the granary and from there to the dovecot . |
29 | Then they lay down in the snow , and fell asleep , and never woke up again . |
30 | Now the Temperance Hall was a very very nice hall er balcony all the way around , it held five or six hundred people er candelabras and all the rest of it , a lovely stage and these travelling concert parties used to come round on a Saturday night , and I should imagine they 'd be doing the seasides during the summer and then they came back in the Walsall and various areas during the er winter months , and we used to get concert parties like The Roosters and The Bonbons and all those sort of people come along and they were real and of course fellas my age , I mean eighteen and nine we used to take our girls there I mean it was full of young people er you 'd perhaps have been to the pictures one night and it 's another way of entertaining really and it was really a first class entertainment . |