Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |
| 2 | I mean turn out in the er in , in in er er European elections was er in nineteen eighty four it was thirty two percent and in nineteen er eighty nine , thirty seven percent . |
| 3 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 4 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 5 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 6 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 7 | I hate going out in the carriage , ’ I said quickly . |
| 8 | caught on one and I want to ring out in the other at the same time I can use it . |
| 9 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 10 | It is not simply a question of availability of space , but of a belief that , as one mother put it , ‘ I like to wake up in the night and see all my family around me . ’ |
| 11 | The afternoon er I like to get up in the morning I like to talk and sing be happy ! |
| 12 | I remember waking up in the middle of the night with a big smile on my face , feeling really pleased with myself , thinking that I 'd just had a wet dream . |
| 13 | The very next day I started ferreting around in the woods and came upon the most magnificent fortress of a sett . |
| 14 | That 's what I try to bring out in the story , and the eyes of the whites ; their penetrating eyes , their hostile eyes . |
| 15 | No I count up to ten , I keep getting up in the middle of the night to weigh myself |
| 16 | I keep floating about in the thought of you , like wallowing in a hot bath and not wanting to get out . " |
| 17 | Words were n't his natural medium , but these days , when I went to help out in the shop , he inevitably took me aside — blackmailing me with samosas , sherbet fountains and the opportunity not to work — for an extended ear-bashing . |
| 18 | I do sit out in the sun occasionally , but I make sure I 'm well protected . |
| 19 | We were well stuck into an excellent local red type of mouthwash , Donnaz , when Ino insisted on our sampling a white Pinot Noir from one of the localities I remembered crawling through in the train . |
| 20 | Do I come running out in the first ten seconds ? |
| 21 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 22 | I made my way to an hotel lounge in the Diamond , where I sat and read a leaflet I had picked up in the church . |
| 23 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 24 | I 've got catarrh , in fact I had to get up in the night and put some there |
| 25 | Are you wishing it was I had rolled under in the waves , not your father 's grandson , because he was hurt while saving your life ? |
| 26 | Are you giving me a lift or will I arrange to come over in the office ? |
| 27 | Like I said , I 've slowed down in the past for people like that and they have n't you know I do n't think that |
| 28 | I 've seen out in the street mountive er mounted police charging down rather like the Battle of Balaclava and inside the station problems arising and it 's nasty to be involved and in those days I 've travelled on a Saturday afternoon often . |
| 29 | where the games are getting played or I 've never seen it in a paper that I 've picked up in the morning , it 's never been in it ! |
| 30 | But , I , physically I ca n't do it , I , I 've aged up in the last few years . |