Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eventually came round in the Chamden General Hospital and on the slab next to me was club chairman , Ken Mentle , an oxygen pump beside him , a nurse frantically thumping his chest and Ken rambling deliriously about a Micky Deere scorcher from the penalty spot which had given us victory . |
| 2 | ‘ Look at you , ’ my father said when I eventually came down in my dressing-gown to watch an old movie on the television that afternoon . |
| 3 | When I eventually reversed out of the hedge , I discovered that it was a bin-liner dancing in the breeze . |
| 4 | So I phoned Mrs I eventually got through to her then I had to phone the prison to tell daddy because he was going to go in and erm I mean I , and then I go back to work , Grant . |
| 5 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 6 | I eventually got back to the switchboard and asked for the neurosurgical bed manager . |
| 7 | When I eventually arrived back at Duxford , I had exactly the same amount of fuel on board that I flew out with ! ’ |
| 8 | Anyway , I eventually caught up with him in Irkutsk which is central Siberia . |
| 9 | I eventually ended up on Live From The Palladium as one of comedy 's bright young hopes . ’ |
| 10 | And I eventually ended up with Jack Mason . ’ |
| 11 | I rather went on about it . |
| 12 | When teachers , matrons , the housemistress and finally the headmistress all started to show some concern and more disapproval at my unco-operative ( anorexic ) behaviour , I refused to answer their questions , or even to talk to them at all , and during the course of their homilies I merely stared out of the window or smiled to myself in a superior , scornful sort of way . |
| 13 | I apparently walked straight past her , but I do n't think she saw that . |
| 14 | As I gingerly stepped on to one last narrow slab , I met someone I knew walking the other way . |
| 15 | I obviously had just before the war but I do n't , do n't , did n't remember then until afterwards . |
| 16 | Yesterday , I incautiously sat down in the library in a chair just vacated by Colonel Fagg , and discovered later that the back of my entire uniform was covered in snuff . |
| 17 | Even though the wind kept the tops cool , the sun was relentless , and I foolishly changed out of my breeches into shorts for the remainder of the route . |
| 18 | Nathan had watched while I went under the rock , had been surprised when I vigorously stood up and had stood transfixed as I gently pitched forwards off the rock . |
| 19 | ‘ I only stepped in at Royalbion because you 'd been knocked out . |
| 20 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 21 | ‘ I only got away by throwing hen feed at the sheep to distract them . ’ |
| 22 | I only got out of the hospital because of an old unclosed file , and a doctor from the outside who took an interest in my case . |
| 23 | I only dropped off for a second . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I only came here as a consultant and do not want to get deeply involved , ’ he insisted . |
| 25 | I only came here to — to tell you I 'm leaving in the morning . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I only came in on the red , raw minute , ’ she said , ‘ so you 'll excuse me , madam . ’ |
| 27 | But er I was away for a week there , I only came back on Saturday . |
| 28 | I only came home at week-ends … " |
| 29 | I used to , no I only went away on er , we only went to Rotterdam once , that 's all . |
| 30 | The tackle looked two-footed but Hirst argued : ‘ I only went in with one — my right foot scraped the ground . ’ |