Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ten-minute soak worked wonders on Merrill 's jaded sense of well-being , and when she went down she found the three of them seated around a huge log fire . |
| 2 | Half-blinded by shadow I made out a steep wall of steps and moved towards it . |
| 3 | I choked back a heartfelt tear . |
| 4 | I got back a two-word coded message . |
| 5 | ‘ I wrote a letter two days ago suggesting a meeting and this morning I got back a curt note suggesting a time . |
| 6 | I tumbled over a drunk lying spreadeagled in the close . |
| 7 | This gave me pause , and when I returned to the hut I tried out a few grins into a hand mirror , and decided he was quite right ! |
| 8 | Next I tried out a different approach . |
| 9 | ‘ I found out a few weeks ago that the canon there says prayers for John every day . ’ |
| 10 | In trying to keep the wheelbarrow upright as I walked , I moved along a wavy line . |
| 11 | In one of the Belfast inner-city communities , I built up a strong personal relationship with a very poor family . |
| 12 | I hooked up a wriggling worm and ate it : it tasted alright , earthy and slightly gritty , but I would rather have had a proper meal . |
| 13 | It turned out that Cedric was getting rather a lot of meat and I drew up a little chart cutting down the protein and adding extra carbohydrates . |
| 14 | With only one hour and 30 minutes to go I squirted out a cheap-looking burning skull design , slapped on a logo and sent the damn thing off with only minutes to spare . |
| 15 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 16 | Said alright , so I filled out a bloody form and I went to Michelins , they knew nothing about it and they had n't got it displayed either ! |
| 17 | ‘ I turned down a new contract at the end of the season , even though it meant getting a testimonial next year because I 've got to be playing in the Premier League to confirm my place in the Irish side . |
| 18 | This year I bedded out a few of these house plants in a prominent position in the garden . |
| 19 | The whole operation was developing like a Grahame Greene novel as I walked up a dark country lane to the waiting car . |
| 20 | I walked up a small flight of steps to the red-tiled side colonnade . |
| 21 | By means best not mentioned I tracked down a living link with Martha . |
| 22 | ‘ Who did you say you were looking for ? ’ she asked suspiciously as I pulled up a weatherbeaten bus seat . |
| 23 | I pulled up a few tufts of grass and covered the blood . |
| 24 | Having made Winter Marsh from the Crouch I anchored off a shallow bay and rowed ashore in the dinghy . |
| 25 | Well I worked out a hundred and twenty here and seventy pound pension . |
| 26 | I blame the fact that a crow chose to hover below me as I scrambled up a tricky bit of path , made more perilous by loose shifting gravel . |
| 27 | Thus I Broke Off a Golden Branch , which incorporates Croatian folk melody , begins by seducing the ear with warm string tone and lilting piano colouring which grows , the rhythms becoming tougher and more insistent , the emotional tension mounting . |
| 28 | I think I settled down a few years back . |
| 29 | The third time I heard this trail ( as they are called ) , I dashed off a quick letter about my coffin difficulties , asking , at the same time , that if the producer considered my problem worth airing , could I be provided with a tape-recorder so I could get some of the more pompous prevarications dished out by the trade on permanent record ? |
| 30 | Then I lay over a great slab of rock which warmed the water almost to bath-heat . |