Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you know what I mean knew very well and nodded . |
| 2 | Sometimes I tried to go as fast as I could , but it was easy to let the sail out and slow down if I felt I was getting out of control . |
| 3 | I tried to look straight ahead until I reached the top , then I entered our attic room and stood there as my eyes accustomed themselves to the dim light . |
| 4 | I want to go home now and think and think about all the things I 've heard this afternoon . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I want to go as soon as possible . |
| 6 | I want to say very generally that we have to avoid thinking about that sort of clash as an impossible dilemma , a blank , unintelligible conflict , a tribal row between unrelated moral principles each espoused by a separate group — a dispute that can only be settled by tribal warfare . |
| 7 | ‘ I want to know as soon as possible . ’ |
| 8 | I learnt to look ahead so as not to run out of stores . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd fallen quite badly and had disc problems with my back . |
| 10 | By ten I 'd crawled as far as the door . |
| 11 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 12 | Certainly ten years ago , in the flood-tide of my research interest in wild primates , I began wondering more critically than before about the applications of ethological theories to man , the species . |
| 13 | The two hind feet hit me almost simultaneously but as I sailed backwards through the door I remember thinking quite clearly that the one on the chest had made contact fractionally before the one on the abdomen . |
| 14 | However , since I was very keen , I decided to go even better and invest in a macro lens . |
| 15 | I decided to walk as far as Bellanoch where a friend would pick me up for that weakening hospitality again - a dear old Sister Brush who shames me with her eighty-year-old energy , integrity and artistic confidence . |
| 16 | What I feel goes much deeper than that . |
| 17 | ‘ I started screaming so loudly that crowds ran to the scene which eventually made the policemen stop . ’ |
| 18 | Living in San'a , I was initially engrossed in the visual aspects of the architecture , but as I became involved with the Yemeni families , I started to record as accurately as possible all aspects of the traditional San'a culture that was rapidly being swallowed up by Western influence . |
| 19 | I started working straight away and started getting arrested — I mean , not once : I was getting arrested three times a day . |
| 20 | ‘ Now , you 're not to be cross with me , my dear , because I did n't come sooner , the truth is I wanted to come straight away but it was n't possible . |
| 21 | ‘ I managed to get away earlier than expected , ’ he replied . |
| 22 | Since I ca n't dress the way I like , I try to go as far as I can whilst still making a feeble attempt at femininity . |
| 23 | I go to the odd fitness class now and again and I try to eat fairly healthily though I do succumb now and again to the odd take-away . |
| 24 | ‘ Mrs Girdlestone has agreed to let you stay on while I try to find somewhere near where I live . |
| 25 | It 's taken longer than I thought to get as far as this . |
| 26 | But I do agree as far as my two friends are concerned . |
| 27 | I can surely do what I like on my day off , not be reproached if I choose to come home early because I feel tired , and secondly , as I said before , I am not playing games . |
| 28 | Because of my injury I did get as far as the Spanish Steps and the shops in Rome , but that was the extent of my sightseeing . |
| 29 | It had been advised by my doctor that a year 's holiday in another land would build me up , as I had grown too quickly and had , as the phrase goes , " overgrown my strength " . |
| 30 | I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral . |