Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a bit I got up and — I went back . |
| 2 | He said it was quieter in there , but I could n't see the lay-by from his room and after a bit I went outside . |
| 3 | After a minute I get up and go into my old room . |
| 4 | So when I bought a dog I decided to name him after a man I admired so much . ’ |
| 5 | After a while I calmed down enough to rest myself . |
| 6 | After a while I became so deep in my cups I grew surly , said I felt unwell and trotted off to bed where I could nurse my hurt as well as conceal my bad manners . |
| 7 | After a while I sat down at a pavement café table and rather shamefacedly clapped my hands , but produced such a ladylike patter that no one heard me . |
| 8 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 9 | After a time I settled down into a routine of work , sleep and having a good time — and not necessarily in that order . |
| 10 | Then there were other names — Raymond Williams , someone with a name like a chamber pot , Fry — after a time I did n't even bother to learn the names . ’ |
| 11 | Except that we were never completely apart , my love , for you were always beside me , and you were always there , and I think that without you there there were times when I should certainly have been crushed by the weight of a Crown I did not really want . |
| 12 | As I was watching the sparks bounce off the curved perspex , I suddenly remembered part of a nightmare I 'd never remembered before . |
| 13 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 14 | He reminded me of a barrister I had once watched interrogating a hostile witness and I was sure his switch to English was not for my benefit , it was done to put Rodriguez at a disadvantage . |
| 15 | I discovered it today in the pocket of a jacket I had n't worn since then . |
| 16 | Then I spotted them — superb orange orchids of a kind I had never seen in Danu . |
| 17 | The night that he said no to my offer of a drink I went home feeling really down . |
| 18 | He relapsed into silence then , and because my mind was still trying to grapple with the politics of a country I knew very little about , I failed to ask him whether Gómez had made that flight on his own or if he had had a crew with him . |
| 19 | The carving is of a quality I do not even understand . |
| 20 | For , as the testing progressed , so my life outside of the sessions began to acquire the lineaments of a normalcy I had never felt before . |
| 21 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 22 | because if someone else says that and then all of a sudden I did n't know this and now I know it . |
| 23 | He 's got to be the meanest son of a bitch I 've ever had the misfortune to work for … |
| 24 | I do n't like being accused of a crime I did n't commit , cos I admit to things I do . |
| 25 | ‘ Reminds me of a horse I knew once , ’ the farmer said , ‘ long time ago . |
| 26 | I was somewhere on the curve of prejudice ; aware of an anger I had not dealt with , simmering beneath the surface , showing itself in bad dreams and disgruntled waking . |
| 27 | Oh yes they put this , this tannin down it was like a bark I do n't know what it was cos I 'm not in the leather trade , I , I do n't know much about it except that it was some by-product from the of the er tanning process , and they used to put this stuff down when people were ill . |
| 28 | I thought it might be frozen all over , like a picture I seen once with all these people skating on the ice , but it ai n't . |
| 29 | Landing in Nigeria , en route to Sierra Leone , and struck , initially , by the intense heat and strange , over-powering odours , Neneh felt frightened and alienated : ‘ It was like a world I 'd never been in , that was looking at me as being different — but also part of . |
| 30 | Er , Vicky says you are awful going er , I said that 's what they do , they grunt at me like an animal I grunt back at them . |