Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 2 | The destruction of the temples and the towns round them led directly to a rebuilding programme . |
| 3 | After mentioning some of the New Age practices and beliefs , I asked again for a show of hands from those who knew friends and neighbours who were involved . |
| 4 | I clung hard to a sapling with my eyes closed , waiting for things to get better , telling myself that if I fell down again it would be much much much worse . |
| 5 | I tottered across to a cottage on the edge of the loch and asked for a pot of tea and a bite to eat . |
| 6 | I realized also with a jolt that the dancers were wearing a motley of costumes representing centuries of brief encounters with the West — from seventeenth-century Portuguese ruffles round their throats , down to modern trainers on their feet . |
| 7 | I argued passionately for a top higher band . |
| 8 | And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again . |
| 9 | I lived there as a boy and know the coal |
| 10 | Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have . |
| 11 | She said : ‘ I got home with a couple of bags and discovered a horror of horrors . |
| 12 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |
| 13 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |
| 14 | ‘ At the end of High School I got together with a drummer , who is still one of my best friends , and over the summer of ‘ 67 we got into a group situation . |
| 15 | I got together with a school friend when I was 12 — I 'd just started playing guitar — and we played Beatles and Stones numbers , but then he got hold of a Muddy Waters album and that just blew us away ! |
| 16 | Finally they helped me upstairs to a bedroom , and I sank gratefully into a warm , dry bed . |
| 17 | I groped for Toby in the dark and found his hands , and they held on to me , and I shouted again to an unknown listener as I had wanted to in the street : " I do n't want this ! |
| 18 | Otley was looking the other way as if he did n't know me when I tried again with a pleasant , motherly woman with a shopping basket full of goodies . |
| 19 | I hated being on social security and I tried everywhere for a job . |
| 20 | After primary school I moved away to a different High School but I have the photographs and certificates of achievement that I have worked for . |
| 21 | Remembering that a couple of kilometres back we had seen a huge moose lumbering across the road , I peered fearfully through a slit in my tent to see this massive reindeer with bloodshot eyes and antlers that appeared to be three metres across . |
| 22 | that there is , this grid lock situation I mentioned earlier on a larger scale has al already occurs er on the way in that er basically to Earls Court as I mentioned earlier it 's in Shepherds Bush . |
| 23 | I mentioned earlier as an illustration , when you pick up a , a magazine , magazine or a newspaper or a local magazine or whatever , you are conscious of the hook . |
| 24 | I jerked upright with a hoarse cry . |
| 25 | He opened a door and I staggered gratefully into a sweet bovine warmth where a few shaggy little bullocks stood hock deep in straw . |
| 26 | But , a marvellous thing happened whilst the trial is going on do n't forget , it 's in the dead of night and whilst the trial is going on there is Pilate 's wife at home in bed sleeping , and she has a dream , and seemed as though God spoke to her , and she saw and recognized the awful deed that her husband was about to commit , so she sent an urgent message to him that is , you 've got it in ve ve verse nineteen have nothing to do with that righteousness man for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of him . |
| 27 | ‘ I came here under a lot of pressure , knowing I had to succeed , ’ he said . |
| 28 | I mean , I came here with a plan . |
| 29 | I came here with a companion in 1954 , determined to conquer this graceful peak and thus set the seal on my mountaineering achievements but , to our shame , we shirked the last thirty yards to the summit cairn in growing apprehension of an instant demise . |
| 30 | But no one 's touched that room to my knowledge , since I came here as a bride in 1929 . |