Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all the wrong shades for me ( for her too ) and I looked like a tired clown by the time she 'd finished , but on my previous appearance anything would have been an improvement . |
| 2 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 3 | I felt exhausted when I climbed into bed and I fell into a deep sleep from which I awoke next morning refreshed and happier . |
| 4 | He led , and I followed like a little sheep . |
| 5 | I walked off the ship , and I slept in a little house near the sea . |
| 6 | This meant my brother and my mum had to share a double bed and I slept in a single one . |
| 7 | I rose this morning after a few days of calm without mystical experience and I walked through a steep valley in a golden light of dawn that was like a rich but transparent garment covering all things . |
| 8 | Leaving the car , Gerry Matthews and I walked up a steep hill , past an eerie standing stone , and eventually reached a mound at the hilltop ringed by a deep moat . |
| 9 | There was a thunderstorm and I struggled from a deep sleep . |
| 10 | The scream woke me , and I lay in a cold sweat with a voice in my head saying , " Hidden , but here forever . " |
| 11 | Finances were riding along the crest of a slump and I lived in a one-room penthouse in Bakers Arms , Leyton ( on top of the opticians ) . |
| 12 | And I lived in a back-to-back houses , and concrete floors , no no carpets on . |
| 13 | One chub in the following thirty minutes and I was back on the feeder , four good chub and a few bits followed , no more barbel , and I finished with a total weight of 14lb . |
| 14 | I joined in , and I ran after a little white girl and grabbed her . |
| 15 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 16 | He explained everything to me and I went across a big courtyard , through a door into a large hall , then up some stairs and along a landing turning left towards an outside terrace down to the lawns at the rear of the Palace . |
| 17 | The chimney is blocked so I could n't light a fire to heat anything up and I went without a hot drink for those four days . |
| 18 | My father did well in his business and I went to a good school . |
| 19 | My mother volunteered to look after the luggage while my father and I went for a short walk . |
| 20 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 21 | I managed to hold the aircraft straight for a short distance , running on the nosewheel which , luckily , had escaped damage , but as the speed came off the aircraft slewed sharply left and I came to a slithering , steaming halt about 200 metres the other side of the dyke , well off the runway . |
| 22 | And I knew for a little while that would be true . |
| 23 | I had long intended making this proposition to the Secretary of State , but I was urged sooner to it perhaps because I felt that I was reduced in circumstances and thrown from my position in Society , and I hoped by a grand effort to establish a permanent claim on the consideration of Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 24 | I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there . |
| 25 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 26 | I recall when Nancy Leadbetter and I stayed in a terrible fleapit of a room in Siena . |
| 27 | We had left John last night at the club , and I wondered with a quailing sensation when he had got home . |
| 28 | After a TOPS course I got a full-time job in computing and I moved to a different part of London . |
| 29 | Vanessa and I decided after a delicious cream tea to burn up some energy walking to Golden Cap , which at 618ft is the highest cliff in Southern England . |
| 30 | She was asleep — there was a little island of light over her bed in the side-room of the empty ward — and someone said in a professional whisper , ‘ Do you think she 's ready for the next stage ? ’ |