Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh you only got up for a coffee ? |
| 2 | Wedding first , Pertwee 's wedding , and Hatton all got up in a topper with his tarty wife . |
| 3 | I only dropped off for a second . ’ |
| 4 | A rat suddenly darted out from a hole in the side of the drum and she had to bite back the scream that rose in her throat . |
| 5 | She was about to turn to him and demand to be taken back when he suddenly swung on to a track she had not seen from the distance . |
| 6 | It should not be forgotten that the advent of 1/1/93 is viewed as a very mixed blessing in Dover — several freight agents apparently walked out on a speech given by Christopher Jackson MEP to a local chamber of commerce meeting recently . |
| 7 | The weight of Garvey on his narrow , bony shoulders , combined with the close fit of the donkey-head , seemed to cause him some distress , because he suddenly reeled up against a wall and snatched off the head . |
| 8 | Instead of promoting a situation in which everyone is itching to do something positive for the good of the Tour , we merely ended up with a handful of players who did nothing but complain . ’ |
| 9 | His son perhaps stayed on in a bungalow there , moving his goods by dinghy . |
| 10 | When Mr Maxwell eventually came out of a hotel lift to attend his own reception , he crossed the hotel lobby and went down a corridor , followed by shouts of ‘ scab ’ and other abuse . |
| 11 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 12 | I just came out in a sweat . ’ |
| 13 | The company spent some two years casting around for a successor to its best-selling computer and finally came up with a machine called Lisa named after the daughter of the company 's founder Steve Jobs . |
| 14 | Their detection normally came about as a result of the appearance of a child ! |
| 15 | Looking like you just stepped out of a fashion magazine is not essential , but being dressed in tune with current trends is as important as being aware of current events . |
| 16 | Looking like you just stepped out of a fashion magazine is not essential , but being dressed in tune with current trends is as important as being aware of current events . |
| 17 | She said oh no I just rang up for a chat . |
| 18 | So I 'm out and about and quite often I go and visit people in their own homes out of the back and beyond of nowhere cos I just called out as a result of that and I suddenly thought I I 'm highly vulnerable to them I could be subject to attack like anybody else , how will I protect myself ? |
| 19 | It just leapt up like a demon in my head when I was staring at you … like X-ray eyes … |
| 20 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 21 | It just took off like a rocket from there . |
| 22 | Having established himself at Ince , Killigrew set off for the busy mercantile town of Plymouth , where he soon fell in with a merchant , Tremayne , who had a daughter , Mary . |
| 23 | At first they managed with an old Hillman Minx estate , but they soon traded up to a Ford Transit van . |
| 24 | So they they did n't post them they people did the bidding they just went round like a postman and |
| 25 | The seasons , if they are important enough , can grab people 's attention in the way that you would n't if the programmes just went out over a period of 16 or 20 weeks . |
| 26 | Erm I took the nine year old boat out and just went out in a boat we had Mary went as well , we were like the all job for mackerel put this guy 's |
| 27 | " I just looked in for a moment to see how you were getting on together . |
| 28 | Er , a couple of days later , it just split down like a banana , and |
| 29 | I just jumped out of a window . ’ |
| 30 | The great sides always capitalise on moments of good fortune and when Marty Roebuck made a hash of a simple penalty four minutes from the break it somehow ended up as a try . |