Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] the alarm " in BNC.
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| 1 | stirred I must of , do n't know what happened this morning , I put the alarm off and turned over and went back to sleep again , it was about ten to eight before I finally got up . |
| 2 | I flick the alarm , good boy , and sleep until eleven . |
| 3 | I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight , and settled down for a couple of hours sleep . |
| 4 | I setting the alarm this year , . |
| 5 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 6 | You put the alarm clock onto the bed alright now let me see will it go in ? |
| 7 | You kill the alarm , then go to sleep for ten minutes . |
| 8 | Instead , he drove off and was later found dead by police after she raised the alarm . |
| 9 | And yesterday his heartbroken wife Jane slammed police for failing to find him after she raised the alarm 48 hours earlier . |
| 10 | And hearing this , out of the great love she bore the founder of the island , Sir Christopher Everard , and on behalf of the lovechild she had borne him , she raised the alarm . |
| 11 | Richard mumbled , ‘ Did you set the alarm ? ’ |
| 12 | I says well you can if you set the alarm the clock ! |
| 13 | She set the alarm . |
| 14 | How many times do we hear the alarm now ? |
| 15 | ‘ They disable the alarm , use a glass-cutter to get in , do n't leave any prints behind and wear masks in case they 're spotted . |
| 16 | It seemed impossible he would escape detection , and with each yard he covered he expected the alarm to be raised from within the house . |
| 17 | Adams stated that whilst he and Moore were at supper he saw an unusual light in the direction of the Body Shop but , instead of going to see what it was and turning on the water from the hydrants to endeavour to arrest the progress of the flames , he caused the alarm bell to be rung and then ran to the gate to admit the Fire Brigade . |
| 18 | Merchant navy sailor Derrick Channon , 51 , from Plymouth , said he raised the alarm four weeks ago on the same deck . |
| 19 | Another man escaped from a back window , cutting his hands as he smashed a way through … blood from the injury still evident on the doorstep of the neighbouring house where he raised the alarm . |
| 20 | He raised the alarm … |
| 21 | Fred Goodyear was so shocked that it was more than eight hours before he raised the alarm . |
| 22 | He hit the alarm button by the door , and bells started ringing throughout the complex . |
| 23 | He sounded the alarm and the train stopped at St-Pierre-des-Corps , near Tours . |
| 24 | Campbell was little concerned with the lives of ordinary seamen ; nor did he reflect the alarm which many of his contemporaries felt about the sea and the behaviour of those who sailed on it . |
| 25 | I just remember the time he came into erm and he had a fag and he set the alarm off . |
| 26 | and he set the alarm off |
| 27 | Normally , one is rather relieved to see the opposition bringing the ball back inside but at Rubislaw it set the alarm bells clanging . |