Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at me let fly with a ringing broadside . |
| 2 | As a newcomer to such work , I became involved through a meeting with Johanna Carrie . |
| 3 | I became engaged in a violent battle , first on behalf of the profession and subsequently as a mediator , when Mrs Barbara Castle — then the Secretary of State for Health and Social Security — pursued an honourable , but in my view misguided , determination to eradicate private practice from this country . |
| 4 | Life became so stressful that when I was making The Power Game the doctor put me on Mogadon and I became hooked for a while . |
| 5 | When I asked to speak for a moment with Miss Lavenza , a manservant showed me into a living-room and asked me to wait . |
| 6 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 7 | Jamie and I got pushed about a bit and nearly fell down a couple of times , but we survived through to the end of the night without any scrapes . |
| 8 | In the end I got moved into a single cell : apparently a lot of this girl 's stuff went missing and she practically accused me . |
| 9 | so we started called her lip , but that happened before I got there so , as I got there it just like , as I joined got in with the regulars it started to peter out a bit , but I got fooled with a couple of times I thought they were taking the piss , alright Lynn how you doing , you know , still . |
| 10 | P. A. I got called as a witness in a motoring case , and it came up when I was on nights and I had to get up and call in the solicitor . |
| 11 | ‘ It was in Kabul that I got caught in a safe house , ’ another term he 'll always think of differently , ‘ by the secret police and I was put in prison . |
| 12 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 13 | I got bitten by a rat . |
| 14 | But on the day I went to Makaha I got distracted by a shapely wave and a firm offshore and met no one apart from a lifeguard in the tower and a girl on the beach . |
| 15 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 16 | ‘ Last time I got booed by a lot of people was in '82 , but this year I was booed a couple of times . |
| 17 | ‘ I got zapped by a flying saucer , ’ Bill explained . |
| 18 | I got talking to a Faber editor I knew slightly . |
| 19 | Indeed , when I visited the Pride Club recently , I got talking to a gay man who had been present that night and remembered it with anger and disgust . |
| 20 | I knew he was there , and that if I tried to move in a certain direction I 'd bump into him . |
| 21 | This seemed to me to be a pretty fair definition of hell , but I tried to look like a man who enjoyed such occasions . |
| 22 | I tried to change into a different person — shorter hair , a moustache , quiet suits . |
| 23 | I tried to apply for a credit card , but they refused me . |
| 24 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 25 | I rose to preach with a jolly remark about there being an official opposition , ‘ but perhaps it will be going for a walk in a little while ’ . |
| 26 | But then I stopped reading as a reader and began to read as a writer . |
| 27 | So , I did what I learnt to do as a working-class woman , which was to justify why I did my work by saying , well of course it is a metaphor for all kinds of struggle , and of course it is , but actually the original reason was n't that at all . |
| 28 | In time I learnt to tell at a glance , from the decorations he wore , how often a man had killed , just as I might tell from his campaign medals where a British soldier had served . |
| 29 | I 'd hoped for a little money , at the very most , a thousand . |
| 30 | The ring I 'd grasped as a baby |