Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to go as soon as possible . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to know as soon as possible . ’ |
| 5 | I learnt to look ahead so as not to run out of stores . |
| 6 | By ten I 'd crawled as far as the door . |
| 7 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I only overhang the couch by a foot or so at each end ; why do n't I attempt to curl up there when you and Janice are in residence , if not flagrante , in the bedroom ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What I feel goes much deeper than that . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I managed to get away earlier than expected , ’ he replied . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Mrs Girdlestone has agreed to let you stay on while I try to find somewhere near where I live . |
| 17 | It 's taken longer than I thought to get as far as this . |
| 18 | But I do agree as far as my two friends are concerned . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | so I said go on then so he said , well he |
| 22 | By some mix-up , my papers did n't seem to be in order and I had to hold on there until the proper American visa came through . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I had to sit down twice because of the roast beef and everything , which had gone straight to my legs . |
| 25 | He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains . |
| 26 | I had to ring twice more before Jozef answered the phone . |
| 27 | ‘ I had to rush off just as he was about to arrive . |
| 28 | There was no fire and I had switched off long before the port wing touched the ground , I saw him hare across the airfield diagonally opposed to the direction of the hangar , and indeed the aircraft , and at the same time he was haring away towards Findhorn . |
| 29 | I prefer to go up rather than down , do n't you ? ’ |
| 30 | But if just once I feel I 've run as hard as I possible could , in good shape , and I 've still only done 27:50 , maybe I 'll be happy to say , ‘ Oh well , Solly , you 've been kidding yourself all along ’ . ’ |