Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But mostly I remember the fishing and if it had n't been for having to carry a gas mask , go without sweets and put up with loud bangs in the middle of the night , I would hardly have known a war was going on .
2 Slowly I leave the land 's hard lights behind ,
3 Nervously I left the safety of a good peg and did a few free moves towards the next one , 20 feet away on the blank left wall .
4 Hazel stakes are unquestionably the best but when I caught rabbits professionally I had the estate make me up a set of iron stakes of only ⅜ inch ( 1 centimetre ) diameter , with a small shoulder at the top to prevent the top line sliding down the stake .
5 Luckily I had a friend who had run the photo lab at Time magazine who was working with me on the technical side and we came up with this idea of trying to use Fujichrome 1600 .
6 Luckily I found a window seat , as passengers with bags were struggling in .
7 Eventually I reached the cliff top .
8 Eventually I interrupted the diatribe to point out that I was paying him to take me to the newspaper , not for his opinions about it .
9 Eventually I made a commitment to some edges , particularly the diagonals and verticals , carefully placing my principal vanishing point and then co-ordinating the parallel lines to this point on the horizon .
10 Eventually I reach the road and follow it to its top , surprised by how close I was to the summit of the pass .
11 Eventually I struck the compromise .
12 Eventually I got a bit fed up .
13 When I wh went to Yorkshire , in , we lived at Leeds , I could n't get a job and eventually I got a job er in a electrical firm .
14 Melville explains , ‘ The downside got overlooked because of the crusading side , but eventually I got the sex mag blues .
15 Eventually I walked the night away , twice hiding in the ditch of the old Glencoe road as lagerlout cars — I could hear their maleficent approach down the glen — tyre-screeched past .
16 Well no , no I , I , I 'd got a cycle and er the money was very useful to us cos er my husband , he worked on the , on the top of at Parcel he could n't go down , they were n't allowed underneath er because he wore glasses , anyone wearing glasses they were n't allowed underground you see and they had to work on what they call on the surface , and of course the wages were n't , were n't much and er I was glad to go out to work and er and I , I eventually I had a cycle and I used to cycle to Squires and back you know , and erm it was , it was very very useful indeed the money I , I , I earned there .
17 I 'm totally left-handed , but eventually I learned the bottleneck style used by blues singers .
18 But then I , eventually I tried the building trade again and I joined a firm called er forget , or something like that and I was working up in George Street in , in , in Edinburgh .
19 And eventually I found a job er as assistant to the er clerking to the rating officer , who had also been a member of t , who was a member of the chapel , and er knew I was looking for a job and er , I had n't written to him cos I did n't know this one was coming up .
20 But my hunch proved right , I came across a few likely looking names and phone numbers and eventually I found a breeder in Bow , East London , who had several barn owls , all brothers and sisters , who would be the perfect training age for me .
21 I have most of them already and besides I enjoy the reputation of being the best teacher .
22 If I want a different sound altogether I have a collection of Fender amps .
23 The glassy grain of water looking upward I see the bed
24 My remark that last time I had a bracelet like that put on I had a baby three hours later is greeted by a stony stare !
25 ‘ Later on I took a vacation to Los Angeles and called George up and he said , ‘ What hotel are you at right now ?
26 And later on I asked a friend in Los Angeles if he actually knew Johnny Bryan and he said ‘ No , maybe … not quite sure . ’
27 When I found out what was going on I persuaded the colonel to go for a little holiday — and then , ’ he continued angrily when Hilary snorted derisively again , ‘ when I did meet you , I could n't believe my eyes .
28 He had we started out somewhere I had no idea where we were going , until we arrived at this big building with a high railing surrounding the yard and a crowd of children shouting and playing in the yard .
29 Do n't know what Scott 's already archived but why they were n't put in boxes away somewhere I 've no idea
30 From somewhere I got the idea of going to art college I 'm sure it was because I 'd read about all the rock musicians who 'd started their bands at art colleges — John Lennon and Keith Richards in particular .
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