Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Babylonian Jews were loyal to the Seleucids ; 8,000 of them fought off an attack of marauding Ga ] atians , according to the Second Book of Maccabees ( 8.20 ) . |
| 2 | If anyone had seen me bent over a motorbike with my ear pressed to the back of a Transit van outside the Barbican that morning , probably nobody would have looked twice . |
| 3 | I became quite a celebrity because of it . |
| 4 | After a further period of three months or so , Don Bennett appointed me Group training inspector — and I became virtually a horse thief ! |
| 5 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
| 6 | Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of : |
| 7 | So I made out a roster , and there were over a hundred carriage cleaners at and I made out a roster for them . |
| 8 | So I made out a roster , and there were over a hundred carriage cleaners at and I made out a roster for them . |
| 9 | I lived quite a lot of my early childhood at the Thompsons ' house behind a shop on Harehills Parade . |
| 10 | I fought down an impulse to kiss it . |
| 11 | I met not a soul on the walk , but the path was in very good condition , a feature we noticed many times in NZ , that the tracks are well looked-after even when apparently hardly used . |
| 12 | He used to make the black and whites and the black coats with a silk stripe ; and I quite thought they were costermongers until I went to help a friend of mine — she kept a public house — and I met quite a lot of them there . |
| 13 | In an effort to combat the isolation and fear I felt at the time , I sought out a number of parents in similar situations to my own ; we had to create our own support systems . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's OK , Maggie , I got here a bit late as well , but they were waiting , you did n't run away did you , loves ? |
| 15 | ‘ I got quite a shock . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I got quite a surprise . |
| 17 | I got quite a lot of reading done — John managed to persuade one of the nice Italian staff at the British Council Library to let me have two more books than my five allowed , so I had them on her ticket ! |
| 18 | So I got quite a lot of old tools , really old ones |
| 19 | ‘ I got out a ball gown to lend to a neighbour and found it had been cheaply dry-cleaned , ’ she said . |
| 20 | I got out a pack of Old Favourites , lit one and fanned smoke through my nostrils . |
| 21 | I got out a handkerchief and began to wipe it off . |
| 22 | So I got down an entry , eating it . |
| 23 | I sent off my $5 and I got back a list of occupations : TV repairman , shoe salesman , musician , fireman , axe murderer . |
| 24 | I tried again a week later . |
| 25 | ‘ I found out a couple of weeks ago . |
| 26 | For a minority there was disappointment : ‘ Well , it was all very interesting , I found out a lot about what other staff think . |
| 27 | So , so , he looked , he looked round at me , he looked at the the other group waiting in front and he was , he flashed his lights at them so that , they realised what was going on by then , they moved forward a bit , I moved back a bit and he just had enough room he reversed right up close to me and then got out but he just had enough room to get out , and since then I wo n't park over the driveway up there , cos you can bet your life the one driveway along that road and you parked in front is the one that somebody wants to get into . |
| 28 | I changed down an octave on ‘ … time , and the living is eas … ’ and up again on ‘ … sy . ' ’ |
| 29 | I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties . |
| 30 | I blacked out a bit last night . |