Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I woke very early the next morning . |
| 2 | ‘ When I started , I erred too far the wrong way and was massacring copy . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I felt pretty much the same , ’ she explained as his lips began to run over her forehead . |
| 4 | I felt once again the working class in this country has been let down , but I am aware that the Treaty has gone through the Commons , making this motion out of date . |
| 5 | Before I reached my window I knew full well the terrible sight which surely awaited me . |
| 6 | I saw yesterday how the Prime Minister winced when the right hon. Member for Finchley said : ’ our authority comes from the ballot box . ’ |
| 7 | As the needle got closer to my arm I remembered that it never used to hurt as long as I gripped really tightly the nice bit of perspex they lend you . |
| 8 | But she had her fair share of steel in her make-up , and she made a vow to herself which echoed eerily down the lonesome length of the lake . |
| 9 | She plunged instantly down the slippery incline . |
| 10 | She moved cautiously up the corroded metal steps on to the catwalk and knelt beside the German , the Beretta pressed into the nape of his neck . |
| 11 | Summoning all her reserves , she swam forcefully down the whole length of the pool , and back again , gradually realising that she felt fitter than she had done for ages . |
| 12 | You — with all your chat about your full social life , your glamorous , eventful bachelor-girl programme , the get-up-and-go philosophy which you expounded so vividly the other evening in your flat ? |
| 13 | It was more a punishment than a kiss and she hated it , but she hated even more the first faint stirring in her blood . |
| 14 | It was Leon Trotsky ( 1879–1940 ) , a brilliant young recruit to the party , who expressed most succinctly the interwoven ideological and personal antagonism which Lenin provoked . |
| 15 | When her aunt was dressed she walked slowly down the narrow staircase in front of her in case , in her weak state , she should stumble . |
| 16 | You heard well enough the first time . ’ |
| 17 | And from somewhere behind it she heard once more the menacing whisper , ‘ Isabelle 's daughter . ’ |
| 18 | Besides being not untypical , 3½ per cent was a fair enough share of the community 's wealth for the fifty-two secular priests , who formed almost exactly the same proportion of the 1484 adult male inhabitants . |
| 19 | One might surmise that Dame Sirith was written to create and fill a brief space of moral relaxation for an audience who knew well both the moral and the social conventions the tale plays with . |
| 20 | Yes , she looked almost exactly the same , unbelievable . |
| 21 | But where she had expected harshness she felt instead only the soft warmth of his lips on her throat , and a rush of longing coursed through her entire body , strong enough to make her buckle at the knees . |
| 22 | She remembered halfway down the rickety ladder stairs , but for would have been a final indignity . |
| 23 | She paused halfway up the second flight to hear whether anyone was following , but all she heard was the sound of a door below opening and the voices of Joseph , Maurin and Barbara Coleman going into the flat . |
| 24 | She had very much the Cebotari voice , but a much stronger character . |
| 25 | Tears coursed down her cheeks and she ran blindly down the wild jungle of the grounds parallel to the thicket . |
| 26 | Celia Hooper 's husband was a bank manager in Woodborough , and it was he who tended so ferociously the disciplined garden beyond the patio doors . |
| 27 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 28 | We went farther up the wasted beach , still finding interesting pieces of flotsam and finally coming to the rusted remnant I thought was a water-tank or a half-buried canoe , from a distance . |
| 29 | Moving like ants in a sand-trap we gasped slowly up the near-vertical rim of the secondary crater , into a storm of ash which masked the gathering dawn . |
| 30 | They walked slowly up the broad staircase , Alec holding the oil-lamp a little above his head . |