Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
| 2 | Eventually I asked for a transfer , but could n't get one , so I stayed and now I 'm glad I did . ’ |
| 3 | Eventually I qualified as a teacher and attended a course at Coburg ; nowadays I specialise in teaching disabled people , but also enjoy being an ordinary member of a local class ( which the Vicar kindly helps advertise ) . |
| 4 | Instinctively I went into a steep spiral dive , furiously angry that I had been beaten at my own game . |
| 5 | replied the doctor in his delightful Scottish accent ( and rather I think with a lovely Highland lilt to it ) . |
| 6 | Idly I turned to a 1975 profile of Dr Arabella Melville . |
| 7 | ‘ They awarded me a seat behind a pillar for this French farce , but foolishly I moved to a place where I had a full view of the stage . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps I come from a long line of knights and no-one ever told me . |
| 9 | So I went with a much smaller firm . |
| 10 | So I went with an open mind . |
| 11 | So I went to a designer , Denise Vaughan of Deni Vee , and she made me a couple of suits which really pleased me and I believed that I was on to something . |
| 12 | So I went to a very good secondary school but I was in the A one stream right the way through and I was always within that top three of that A one stream and it gave me confidence and I really got on . |
| 13 | Apart from a price list , so we had a price list , and I thought right so I went to a book shop and I tried to find a book on masks nothing . |
| 14 | So I went like a little lamb following a mother sheep , back to the same room . |
| 15 | so I managed for a few weeks and then I went to lodge with my sister at Trimley |
| 16 | Anyway , er so I thought for a , I 've had a large of the press today which is , it 's a very tense case indeed . |
| 17 | So I advertised in a newspaper for a job as a governess . |
| 18 | So I slept in a little damp attic room which smelt of apples , my head not very far away from the dream-troubled heads of Shelley and his mistress . |
| 19 | So I put on a coat . |
| 20 | ‘ I became homeless in London so I got on a train and ended up here ; that 's all there is to it , really . ’ |
| 21 | So I embarked upon a new draft of the Regulations . |
| 22 | So I mean from a couple of bits of information we could tell they had sheep , they probably ate them , teeth marks on it , things like that . |
| 23 | and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with |
| 24 | so they had like an hour break so I spent in a room . |
| 25 | To do so I drove into a petrol station by the BBC Television Centre in order to do a U-turn . |
| 26 | So I think about a hundred and fifty pounds |
| 27 | so I think in a way it would be quite nice to sit down with somebody from each of the colleges to hammer out the syllabus because Napier will see it from Napier 's point of view about what 's easiest for them to teach and what this and what the other whereas I suspect if you also sat down with and and people you might get a broader discussion base |
| 28 | So I confessed to a possibility , though it was only six weeks since Sintra and there was still room for doubt . ’ |
| 29 | Anyway , so I appeared before a Judge , the only time when I 've really been , he was judging me . |
| 30 | So I started as an errand boy and half a crown a week was my bus fare , which give me , entitled me two journeys , a return journey each day . |