Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [adv] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 2 | Actually for a second there I forgot it . |
| 3 | for a while there I thought I was losing my touch . ’ |
| 4 | For a while there I thought we were going to be up the creek without a paddle . ’ |
| 5 | For a while there I thought you 'd gone into a coma . |
| 6 | Except for a year when I had a break from competing , I have been racing ever since and have won two club championships and nearly one hundred trophies . |
| 7 | Yeah he 'd got some letters , apparently he were going to Post Office later for stamps and everything and er got this letter and seeings I 'd only got three he give me his , give me twenty four pence for a stamp so I walked to Post Office , I thought well I do n't want no penny or tuppeny stamps . |
| 8 | I worked for a month then I went to the dyers and cleaners and I came home to Ipswich in the , on the Easter time and I started work as a turnboy on the dredger at Ipswich at thirty five shillings a week for fi sixty six and a half hours a week , starting from Monday morning at six o'clock to six o'clock Monday night . |
| 9 | I was silent for a moment then I looked away . |
| 10 | ‘ For a moment then I thought you were going to give me a different name . |
| 11 | I thought it was ch you know as a challenge so I thought I would go . |
| 12 | Mind you I saw her two day 's ago and she looked absolutely fit as a fiddle so I said I think it strikes quickly and |
| 13 | Well she just asked about a bed so I told her that |
| 14 | But about a month later I played in a trophy competition and played a disastrous round and put my handicap up to 16 which I 'm trying to get down by playing in two medal competitions in October . |
| 15 | I 've known Kate since she was a child , and about a month ago I went to see her . |
| 16 | About a month ago I spent an afternoon looking through the German National Film Archives in Coblentz . |
| 17 | Well that 's not a tea towel there , nanny cleaned her windows yesterday and er when I , I 'd wiped er with a cleaning off I washed it up again and I put it out yesterday and I keep forgetting to bring it in . |
| 18 | Always used to draw my truncheon if I went into a place where I thought there was a burglar but never actually used it to hit them . |
| 19 | After returning from a week away I found the pond to be deep black ; the fish were visible a few inches from the surface . |
| 20 | I was returning from a hospital where I had been visiting someone , and I was last in a bus queue . |
| 21 | Until a year ago I had very little do with women in the sexual sense . |
| 22 | My master listened to him half-heartedly , more engrossed in studying a piece of parchment on which he was writing cryptic notes in a cipher even I did not understand . |
| 23 | Er the only difference between the situation now and the situation when I was a teacher is that there are a lot of Christians in this room per square metre than there would have been in a school where I taught and that applies to where I work now er because er the number of Christians who are around me in in the workplace are actually even smaller I guess and er that may be something that er you will need to recognise is an unusual feature of your school life and that er as you leave school so you 're going to go into very different environments where people behave very differently . |
| 24 | On 6 June , in a year when I had no public examinations and ( like so many others ) was busily occupied ruining floral wallpaper by sticking pin-flags into maps of Europe , the Allied forces landed in France . |
| 25 | junior Colts , sorry junior Colts , and he said erm ah had a bit of a roll at the beginning and then towards the end now we 've sort of lost loads in a row so I said , he said alright I said about the same with us then I was , so I said it 's cold and he said mm yes it is rather . |
| 26 | This left me in a situation where I had to decide if I could afford to finance the aircraft on my own . |
| 27 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 28 | But the other thing is , Judith 's husband plays in a band now I 'd , I th it might be a pipe band , I 'm not sure |
| 29 | said I 've got to get this one back for her mum or whatever said I 'm in a hurry then I met some guy on the field , talking to him and er |
| 30 | Well I , I , as I say , I did follow it up and in fact , I even went to a committee where I sat and spoke to the er the police face to face and they made all sorts of promises but nothing materialized . |