Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 2 | ‘ I eventually arrived in Los Angeles and got a job with a show-business agency as a secretary . |
| 3 | Du n no yet , I really do n't know , erm well I only popped in Sundays , I 've been going to spend the week , er the other half and me ended up in Littlehampton and Arronale for the day . |
| 4 | well I only lived in London for about six months . |
| 5 | Mrs Nicholas Beaumont , whose husband is Clerk of the Course , and whom I only saw in the distance ; Mr and Mrs Oliver Sherwood , Major and Mrs Peter Wiggin , Mr and Mrs Tim Dawson , Mr Harry Middleton , Mrs Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie , Colonel and Mrs Tommy Wallis , and their daughter Mrs Charles Baker ; Mr and Mrs John Guest , Mrs Tom Scott , Mr Peter Dimmock , and Mrs George Beeby . |
| 6 | I was n't there very long cos I only went in one class in Road School . |
| 7 | No I did n't , I only went in the hall for that paper . |
| 8 | Oh really , I only went in there the other day , well the other week about a fortnight ago |
| 9 | ‘ Tomorrow we will look for a house to rent but as I only arrived in London this morning I have not had the time . |
| 10 | I mean the only country I spent a lot of time in , in , in Europe is Austria , and then I only stopped in remote villages , you know , more or less , so er , I mean they rely on eh , tourist trade , they rely on tourist trade , where , where I 've |
| 11 | ‘ I only stayed in the hall for a couple of seconds . |
| 12 | ‘ I only moved in a couple of years ago . |
| 13 | ‘ There I was , merrily going about my own business , when I suddenly disappeared in a puff of metaphysics . |
| 14 | When I first thought of that I suddenly got in an absolute panic — nothing to do with Darwin , but , you know never mind — and I thought what about those erm , preying mantises and things , which who have adopted their front legs for sort of seizing prey like that they 've even got four legs to walk on — what do the poor things do ? |
| 15 | Mm but this was last year and I just cleared the ball and everybody ran out ran out and I suddenly collapsed in agony on the floor cos my knee just completely gave way and it was really painful and a minute later I stood up and it was fine , it did n't give me any more hassle for the rest of the day . |
| 16 | ‘ I grew up in Australia , and when I was about fourteen I saw a guitar and that was it : I just fell in love , just totally obsessed . |
| 17 | ‘ I just walked in there one day ; it was the nicest store on 48th Street . |
| 18 | Somehow I just knew in the end we would get back to the subject of money ! |
| 19 | She said I just went in there and she said I could n't stand any more , she said do you know Joy she said you 're one of the nicest people I know , she said I tell you what I 've never heard in my life two people stab somebody like you 're being stabbed , she says I could n't sit there any more |
| 20 | ‘ My father was a flight sergeant caterer and I suppose I just followed in his footsteps . |
| 21 | Mill says exactly what I just said in response of him that is if the people are prepared to accept these why what 's to stop them consulting and asking for advice about how they should cast their vote and so Mill later on gives a response to his own suggestion about plural voting in effect without realizing that what he 's done . |
| 22 | So I just said in passing , I said Well your husband 's allowed up to two hours , he thinks it 's only gon na t Ooh she 's says it wo n't take that , no . |
| 23 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 24 | ‘ I just looked in the larder and I 've only got four . |
| 25 | I just looked in the window then went away . ’ |
| 26 | I just hid in the corner until the bizzies had gone . |
| 27 | And I just hid in that yeah . |
| 28 | I just , I just typed in |
| 29 | I just sat in the dressing-room with my head in my hands hating myself for what I 'd done . ’ |
| 30 | It was terrible , I just sat in the house all day and when my husband was n't working he 'd just scream at me and the kids would be screaming and he 'd be hitting them . " |