Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh you only got up for a coffee ? |
| 2 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 3 | Treleaven , from Hayling , only got in as a last-minute replacement when Michael Welch , on EGU duty in Spain , crushed his thumb in a door and had to scratch from the Salver and Sunday 's Hampshire Hog at North Hants , where he should have been defending . |
| 4 | Wedding first , Pertwee 's wedding , and Hatton all got up in a topper with his tarty wife . |
| 5 | ‘ What do you find to do , out all day ? ’ asked my mother , who only ventured out with a specific purpose in mind and always got back at the time she had decided she would . |
| 6 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 7 | Mildred tried to shriek , but it only came out as a frenzied croaking . |
| 8 | I only dropped off for a second . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A rough-looking youth with long black unkempt hair and with a muffler about his neck suddenly sprang out from a disused barn standing close beside the lane . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Next morning I was sitting on the garage roof watching starlings squabbling on the lawn and wondering if they were too busy to have noticed me , when they suddenly took off with a great rush of wings . |
| 14 | The sour smell from the communal rubbish bins in the alley below drifted up through a broken window and Carrie grimaced as she knocked on the door . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | His son perhaps stayed on in a bungalow there , moving his goods by dinghy . |
| 18 | Bernie obviously worked on the idea and eventually came up with a much cheaper and more simple solution which would provide the investigator with a moving picture of the basic flight instruments during the period leading up to the crash . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sun Microsystems Inc 's Computer Corp unit duly came out with a new , cheaper Sparcstation IPC last week , offering a colour system for under $6,000 — £5,000 in the UK — for the first time . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As they set off to cross a bridge already cordoned off as a prohibited area , the police hurriedly re-formed in front of them . |
| 23 | They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late . |
| 24 | I just came out in a sweat . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside . |
| 27 | Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered . |
| 28 | She rustled around and finally came out with a crumpled bill which she put in my hand . |
| 29 | Their detection normally came about as a result of the appearance of a child ! |
| 30 | 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 . |