Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Matron came in that afternoon everyone stood up and shouted ‘ Hooray ’ . |
| 2 | With some difficulty I got up and watched in disbelief as the collie staggered to his feet . |
| 3 | After a bit I got up and — I went back . |
| 4 | For hours I walked up and down in my flat . |
| 5 | As I reached the end of the student union building I looked back and gave a little finger-wiggle . |
| 6 | After about an hour I gave up and retired to the Met Office , very much put out . |
| 7 | well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice |
| 8 | One afternoon I lay down and looked through a large attic skylight . |
| 9 | The last play I worked out that w we had one four hundred and thirty seven of those thirty seven would be er freebies to the homes in , in to bring it down to about four hundred and on the ticket money we took in , I would say about a hundred and twenty of those were erm er concessions . |
| 10 | After about twenty minutes I got up and prepared to leave , thanking both of them for their hospitality . |
| 11 | Two or three times I fell down when I was wearing it , that was outside in the market place . |
| 12 | On the Tuesday I went in and they said that a letter would follow right that was on the Tuesday the twenty first something like that , then I never heard nothing from them until this came lunchtime post this Monday recorded delivery . |
| 13 | After tea I went out and saw Ryan . |
| 14 | At the third attempt I gave up and hailed a taxi . |
| 15 | He shivered at the ‘ yip , yip ’ of a fox carried by the cool night wind and jumped at the screech of the huge bats which flickered up and down the castle walls . |
| 16 | He had squirrel eyes which darted about and he took a good look at her legs beneath her short skirt . |
| 17 | The basis for the easy triumphs which had over and again given new nourishment to the ‘ Hitler myth ’ was gone , even if trust in the Führer was still generally strong . |
| 18 | On the way they were spotted by an Italian aircraft which came in and strafed them . |
| 19 | Mid-layers perhaps provide the most versatility in the layering set-up , and these days the buzz-word is fleece , that warm and cuddly fabric which took over where fibre-pile left off . |
| 20 | Along with the rest of the property sector , British Land 's shares have been trading at a considerable discount to its assets per share , and yesterday 's move is an attempt to close the 40 per cent gap which built up as institutions took a dimmer view of the market . |
| 21 | There were many fans who drifted in and out of the groups without making any sequential progress at all and the groups to the left of the terrace always provided for an escape from the soccer ‘ rat race ’ . |
| 22 | After getting out of the car she bent over and pushed open the gate , then closed it behind her , walked up the short path and rang the doorbell . |
| 23 | However as the number of available school leavers began to rise , all those recruits who dropped out or left were more easily replaced . |
| 24 | At the doorway she reached up and slotted the new dā telo twig between the stones above the lintel . |
| 25 | The Mourneview defender who stormed out and demanded a transfer after a bust-up over training says : ‘ The club is in the wrong and must be prepared to admit the mistake and put it right . ’ |
| 26 | When the moderate majority finally resigned their power back into Oliver Cromwell 's hands , Squibb was one of the radical remnant who sat on until they were evicted . |
| 27 | At the first stoplight she leaned over and kissed him . |
| 28 | Downing Street , ever sensitive to Ian Lang 's problems , meanwhile told Scots who pointed out that northern latitudes are colder than southern , that they should take comfort from Budget measures on whisky and the oil industry . |
| 29 | Without turning on the light she sat up and reached for her bottle and glass , faintly alarmed to discover she could find them both by feel alone . |
| 30 | When Diana became patron of the Welsh National Opera , one of the original five patronages she took on when she became Princess of Wales , she confessed that she did not know very much about opera — and that her principal love was ballet . |