Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I better go in a minute . |
| 2 | Suppose I better start in a minute , had n't I really ? |
| 3 | ‘ I only moved in a couple of years ago . |
| 4 | ‘ There I was , merrily going about my own business , when I suddenly disappeared in a puff of metaphysics . |
| 5 | I remember once , I was rehearsing a piece of Bach — I forget which piece it was — and I suddenly felt in a state of absolute harmony . |
| 6 | ‘ I always pack in a hurry , ’ she explained , as she carefully arranged three pairs of canvas shoes in a neat row under her bed . |
| 7 | In spite of six weeks of unceasing rain Wade was , by October 1732 , able to write , ‘ I still hope in a fortnight to pass the Coriarick Mountain in my coach ’ , and sure enough by the end of October the road was finished , ‘ made through a part of the country , ’ as he justly claimed in his report to the Treasury , ‘ that was scarcely passable for man or horse … now made as easy and practicable for wheel carriages as any road in the country ’ . |
| 8 | I still believe in a God . |
| 9 | I still believe in a place called Hope . |
| 10 | I STILL believe in a place called Hope . |
| 11 | Nothing that I later ate in a restaurant was as good as our dinner , the finale being a ‘ tender coconut ’ pudding , a dish I had never eaten anywhere in the tropics . |
| 12 | I really feel in a borough as big as Bromley , which is the biggest |
| 13 | I then threw in a call to my sock in London . |
| 14 | And I realized it was the first time I actually slept in a bed with Frank ever . |
| 15 | When I stayed overnight at my nan 's , which I often did , I actually slept in a room next to where the old monastery used to be . |
| 16 | I took singing lessons , too , and I actually sang in a couple of films , but if you saw the films you 'd see why I 'm not in musicals . |
| 17 | I actually arrived in a neighbour 's Mini car . |
| 18 | It 's funny — I never get in a state about doing radio programmes . |
| 19 | I made absolutely certain I never sent in a duff contract . |
| 20 | I mean I , I never went in a car when I was a child . |
| 21 | The Box sent by the Herald and which I accidentally found in a warehouse in South Australia was as near being lost as possible . |
| 22 | But , alas , I too operate in a man 's world . ’ |
| 23 | Occasionally we all suffer from influenza or a bout of sickness , which naturally results in a drop in weight . |
| 24 | Connery came to Scotland to receive the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh , one of those civic honours which usually passes in a bit of ceremony followed by a bit of dinner . |
| 25 | A pipe would siphon out the leachates — or dangerous organic waste which gradually forms in a landfill . |
| 26 | ‘ Have ye ever looked in a mirror ? ’ he asked . |
| 27 | However , people were heard to say that only the Führer himself now believed in a miracle . |
| 28 | The pathologist had finished with Maurice 's body , which now lay in a chapel of rest in Maidenhead , awaiting a decision on when and where the funeral was to be held . |
| 29 | Through her hair , which now lay in a tangle about her face , she saw a pair of long legs flex . |
| 30 | Folly lashed the aggressor over the head with her roses — which immediately disintegrated in a hail of scented petals . |