Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A. T. I passed for Sergeant seventeen years before I got made up . |
| 2 | I was thinking about black holes as I got into bed one night in 1970 , shortly after the birth of my daughter Lucy . |
| 3 | Cos I nearly died I got on bus other day and they charged me eighty five pence I looked at me clock and it were twenty past nine . |
| 4 | I cycled to school one morning through streets littered with glass , and past a little Nonconformist chapel , in which everything had been destroyed except the far wall with its multi-coloured and scrolled message ‘ God is Love ’ . |
| 5 | However that may be , I woke before dawn next day and , just by lying alert on my miserable bunk , was able to let my intelligence spread like mist beyond the narrow confines of the prison . |
| 6 | ‘ I came off stage last night and simply collapsed in a heap and slept straight through . |
| 7 | ‘ I arrived at work one Monday to find the roof had collapsed following some heavy rain , ’ she explained . |
| 8 | Then suddenly , every morning when I arrived at school two kids would stand by the gate and shout out , ‘ Nigger , nigger , pull your trigger ! |
| 9 | It spills over , it goes into er the civil service unions that I addressed in Parliament this week . |
| 10 | As I lay in bed that night , watching the flash of the searchlights on the darkened wall , I asked Robin Summers the same question . |
| 11 | I lay in bed that night , trying to remember what had been in the bag . |
| 12 | I lay in bed that night , waiting for my father to return , and for the phone to ring , while I thought about what had happened . |
| 13 | I lay in bed last night and thought of G.P. |
| 14 | Just before I went to bed one night , I decided to have a shower . |
| 15 | Dinner came ; for me the meal was a very hasty one , and before I went to bed that night I had finished reading the manuscript . |
| 16 | That was the real reason I was sweating as I went to bed that night . |
| 17 | ‘ I had a feeling when I went to bed last night , ’ her mother told her . |
| 18 | I went to bed last night with Night Nurse |
| 19 | I must say when I got up this morning I did n't feel much better than when I went to bed last night but there we are . |
| 20 | Not I went to bed last night at twelve o'clock John and Ryan was in bed about twelve I think , the two of them just fell straight to sleep . |
| 21 | I went to sleep that afternoon fully dressed , and I did n't wake up until seven forty-five P.M. I washed and changed my clothes , and walked through the old part of the city with its strange , crouch-backed , medieval buildings , like a Hollywood set built for Garbo . |
| 22 | ‘ I hit my head on the kerb when I fell and when I went to hospital two days later they told me I had severe bruising of the brain , ’ said Walter after his Kempton win on Mithl Al Hawa . |
| 23 | I went into town that day , bought an extra plastic model of a Jaguar , made the kit up that afternoon and ceremonially blew it to pieces on the roof of the Bunker with a small pipe-bomb . |
| 24 | Do you know , it dawned on me , I went in shop this morning for some stamps and he did n't have any and I were gon na go to garage you only get er four stamps in them books now . |
| 25 | I sat at home that night and cried and cried . |
| 26 | I sat in church this morning and fairly boiled . |
| 27 | I wanted to fo major authors . |
| 28 | I know how much you like your bed , was it nice and on , was it nice and warm when you got in bed last night ? |
| 29 | She reported for work two days early . |
| 30 | I mean , I had n't heard anything of you since you came to dinner that evening and … well , went off rather hurriedly . |