Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It was the last day of shooting and they did n't need us till nine o'clock that morning , so Keenan [ Wynn ] and me went over to the bar and had a couple there and I said , ‘ You know , Keenan , it 's gon na be a long hot day so we 'd better stop off at the drug store and buy a jug . ’
2 Derek and me went along to the new wans Christening and he was like a tink !
3 As in Protevangelium ; And I looked up into the pole of the heavens and saw it standing still , and the fowls of the heavens without motion …
4 Well then er quite , so he said erm it was all quiet and I looked up into the darkness and I said that the old fellow had gone and he litten his fuse and there was me there I could see the sparks in the darkness and I was way twenty feet below him and he must have whatsit .
5 I stood alone on the beach next to the elaborate italics of Oliver ( the others had done capitals , of course ) , and I looked up towards the camera , and Stuart shouted ‘ Cheese ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Gorgonzola ! ’ and Stu shouted ‘ Camembert ! ’ and Gillian shouted ‘ Dolcelatte ! ’ and suddenly I had this crying fit .
6 And I looked up to the air and saw the air in amazement .
7 And I looked up unto the pole of the heaven and saw it standing still , and the fowls of the heavens without motion .
8 When they were well out of the way we made tracks for home and I looked forward to a quiet evening .
9 I now had the incentive to train even harder , and I looked forward to the outdoor season with considerable relish .
10 I could n't let this frail old man go In there and maybe get knocked down and savaged , and I looked around for a means of protection .
11 ‘ I kept thinking today how lucky I was , you see , how blessedly fortunate , with all I have , all that is so comfortable , all that makes me so — so much happier than I was , and then this evening I went to the Rectory and when I returned I was in my room and I looked out at the darkness and I thought of you and how lonely you must be after all the company and society you have known just recently and I thought — I thought — ’
12 ‘ Fuck you , ’ the Maggot screamed at whoever fired at him and I looked out of the Beechcraft 's side window to see palm trees going past at over 150 miles an hour and above us .
13 And I popped out to the shop on Sunday the second of November and came back totally and utterly bemused to see them putting a christmas tree up and father christmas in the window and fairy lights all over the place .
14 And he was n't in today I mean came into work and I passed out in the . .
15 ‘ He and I grew up in the same town .
16 He went ; and I stared again at the Modigliani , caressed the Rodin , surveyed the room .
17 We flew above the skeletal radio mast and I stared down at the row of huge houses .
18 She went , and I got on with the life of Ellen Parkin , about to emerge from her chrysalis , to spread her wings as Eleanor Darcy .
19 And I got up with the intention of diving off the second one and I went no !
20 And I got up on the wall right ?
21 Oh no you know she 's gon na sort of , sort of suus , so erm , I said oh it 's alright it 's only Eve 's house keeper , and I got back on the phone I said no I 'm every sorry to leave you hanging on I said no I do n't know where she is , I have n't seen her all morning , I have n't seen her at all , and er I said bye then , she said what 's the matter with you she said , I said what do you mean what 's the matter with me , she said oh , why you talking funny ?
22 And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were .
23 Doug Wimbish started playing harmonics on that funny Guild bass ( the rubber-stringed Ashbory model — Ed ) and I got down to a really quiet moment , and suddenly Phil just surprised the hell out of us with this keyboard patch !
24 It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women .
25 I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops .
26 ‘ I came to wake you , and I got in through the bathroom , which you forgot to lock . ’
27 When the shelling and mortaring ceased , Taff and I got out of the trenches .
28 I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me .
29 As half-time approached and with the score at 0–0 , Reg and I shuffled nervously on the bench , but the duck was about to be broken .
30 And I heard enough about the grisly ways in which he like to make sure his questions were answered .
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