Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | With some difficulty I got up and watched in disbelief as the collie staggered to his feet . |
| 2 | After a bit I got up and — I went back . |
| 3 | As I reached the end of the student union building I looked back and gave a little finger-wiggle . |
| 4 | After about an hour I gave up and retired to the Met Office , very much put out . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | One afternoon I lay down and looked through a large attic skylight . |
| 7 | After tea I went out and saw Ryan . |
| 8 | At the third attempt I gave up and hailed a taxi . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At the doorway she reached up and slotted the new dā telo twig between the stones above the lintel . |
| 11 | At the first stoplight she leaned over and kissed him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Reaching the railway fence she climbed over and started across the tracks . |
| 14 | The first tape we played back and it was him eating toast ! |
| 15 | But the little dog I went , I took a friend to collect her little dog from the vet it 's had a double hernia , has n't it , double hernia , it , it had a tremendous operation dear little thing , but she said he had a wart under he 's eye and on it 's own accord it dried up and dropped off . |
| 16 | With his usual presence of mind he nipped back and picked up Sheldukher 's hard copy map of the planet . |
| 17 | In my dream I got up and went to the office . |
| 18 | A pair of keen black eyes burned fiercely in their sunken sockets , and as she met their sardonic gaze she drew back and would have fled , had not the servant been close behind her . |
| 19 | After the final tragic scene he leaned back and closed his eyes . |
| 20 | And Joe was so livid when he get in from work he went out and found them and smacked one of these kids nearly to death ! |
| 21 | As the traffic ground to a halt he glanced round and then behind him . |
| 22 | Then one afternoon she came by and she asked my what was up . |
| 23 | At this low point I gave in and had my epidural topped up . |
| 24 | Just for a moment she looked up and her eyes met his , wide , unguarded , and she felt his fingers tighten . |
| 25 | Taking up an oil-can she went out and towards the old outbuildings , to the door next to the one leading into the barn and , moving it , she found that it had n't been oiled . |
| 26 | The forms in the waiting-room were most uncomfortable and at one period she got up and began to walk about , apparently to the consternation of other people who , docilely , were also waiting for news . |
| 27 | In the early evening we took off and , speaking for myself , I was very glad that there was a drop of about 100ft to the sea when the heavily laden Whitley cleared the airfield boundary . |
| 28 | At one point they fell out and Schine chased Cohn through a hotel lobby swatting him over the head with a rolled-up magazine , to the delight of the large Press corps , who wrote stories headlined after the dialogue of the famous duo , ‘ Positively , Mr Cohn ! ’ and ‘ Absolutely , Mr Schine ! ’ |
| 29 | The reason we know it 's not it was nineteen sixteen er that had been killed was that he was home obviously at the beginning of the war he went off and then someone named left a house well left they died and the proceeds of the house were left to Mrs Miss 's grandmother . |
| 30 | It was a grim reminder of the moment he knocked down and killed road worker Kevin Lawlor earlier this year . |