Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rode home along with him : he never used to charge me nothing because I used to deliver these here up to the shops for him . |
| 2 | I got slowly out of bed . |
| 3 | With Jo I got right back to basics , and that meant starting with my own birth . |
| 4 | I got straight through to my brother at the number Ruth gave me , of the hospital in Carlisle . |
| 5 | Cross and sore , I got straight back on and trotted him into the fence again . |
| 6 | I mean I , I was quite fascinated having lunch one day with a journ a Melbourne journalist erm and this was about six months after Murdoch had taken over the Melbourne Sun all this and we were chatting away and I actually threw in the stuff which were saying about how papers are there to make profits these days so that 's what drives them and that journalists journalists on newspapers such as Murdoch 's papers , write what they 're supposed to write and she and I got quite out of with one another and and the bottom liner was that she , she absolutely totally and utterly denied what we were saying and I said to her okay if you were given a story to write you know and it was opposite to how you would view it , what would you do and she said oh well I , I would have to write it and the issue with the Murdoch papers and it 's quite interesting because I mean I 'm sure you can with other newspapers but I , I 've just got a bit more is that Murdoch never ever writes a minute or a memo to his editor or staff saying this is what the line is ever . |
| 7 | I skimped once back in ‘ thirty-four . |
| 8 | Y you 'll see amongst the plans that you 've , you 've got before you , plan number seven actually , should n't really be with these papers because it 's not a proposal for approval , but it does show the extent of the work that 's been done and the key element there is that there are these speed cushions I mentioned earlier on as a possible way forward there , which has been in consultation . |
| 9 | All that the passive avoidance training required was a set of simple , small 20 by 25 centimetre pens into which a couple of chicks could be placed ( in the US , they used quart-sized milk cartons ) — the set-up I described way back in Chapter 2 . |
| 10 | I drove slowly down to my office . |
| 11 | Nellie and I tiptoed quietly back down the aisle and out of the door . |
| 12 | From the tower I climbed carefully down to the causeway and walked amid screeching seabirds to the end of the island , where the foaming water was groaning and pounding dramatically into a wide gash in the rock , known as the Blow Hole . |
| 13 | When Gray and Mr Trelawney were helping the captain , I climbed quickly out of the stockade and ran into the trees . |
| 14 | The big , light-hungry leaves were almost black now as I walked briskly back along the path searching for the track to take me back to the lodge . |
| 15 | As I walked forlornly around on my own , I could hear fragments of different conversations wafting over the music : |
| 16 | I walked slowly back to the hotel . |
| 17 | I walked slowly back into Dent for a pot of tea and a slice of buttered spiced loaf at Stone Close Cafe . |
| 18 | A girl of about Xanthe 's age bounced up to my side as I walked slowly along in front of the grandstand , and said , ‘ Hi ! |
| 19 | A little while later , I walked slowly out of the house . |
| 20 | Then I walked fast on to the dark lonely marshes . |
| 21 | I walked sadly back through the connecting passage to Number 11 , and waited almost stunned with the news . |
| 22 | I had time only to think , he will find my own garb strange , before I walked dazedly up to him and sat by his side a yard away from him . |
| 23 | I glanced quickly about in the gloom , and then back to those distant , utterly silent towers of flickering flame . |
| 24 | I started right in by saying there must have been a bit of a misunderstanding . |
| 25 | I did n't use the toilets between lessons because I hate all that smoke so , by the time Biffo had finished with us , I dashed straight down to them . |
| 26 | ‘ I felt slightly out of place . |
| 27 | Standing there in my civilian clothes I felt completely out of place and wished that I could be wearing a blue tracksuit like the rest of them . |
| 28 | I felt really out of place . |
| 29 | ’ Not me , ’ I told her as I struggled painfully up from the pouch-seat . |
| 30 | Small and weak as I was , I stared firmly back at him . |