Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got bowled over twice and lost sight of Greg completely , but when I finally got back alongside him at the green he was really excited . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd fallen quite badly and had disc problems with my back . |
| 3 | By ten I 'd crawled as far as the door . |
| 4 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 8 | I had come this far and was determined to make it to France . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The mood immediately sank back into deep depression , especially in the light of the Soviet summer offensive , which had pushed as far as the Vistula , and , in August , the accelerating advance of the western allies through France . |
| 11 | As we watched , the fog , which had crept as far as the house , began to flow round it . |
| 12 | Egyptian stone vases reached Crete before the bronze age began ; the Cretan industry , which had started as early as 2500 BC , nevertheless post-dated the arrival of these foreign vases . |
| 13 | But in this period , his several talents which had shone so clearly when he was much younger and somehow been lost in the scrum of his long adolescence , began to regroup . |
| 14 | I thought you 'd gone up there and got it . |
| 15 | You 'd be stupid to go across the stepping stones if you did n't have the power to jump from one to the other , pretty big , but the , so are the distances between them and at that time of the year the river was pretty high too and r rather boisterous , so it would n't be very pleasant if you had fallen in , but you 've got to have that but you 've also got to have stamina as you said , but it would n't have been any fun if you 'd got halfway across and your stamina had run out , then fire brigade called out , the fire brigade or something . |
| 16 | She 'd lived there partly because she could n't be bothered to move , partly because it was cheap , but mainly because her mother would n't let her go . |
| 17 | He might have the advantage of size and strength , but thanks to the martial arts classes she 'd taken as regularly as she could over the past few years , she had a few tricks of her own up her sleeve . |
| 18 | That brief reference to his stepfather was haunting her , and she wished she 'd found out more while she had the chance . |
| 19 | A few minutes later , when she 'd got as far as wrapping herself in her host 's dressing-gown , Penry Vaughan knocked loudly on the door . |
| 20 | It had been a stupid omission , but then she 'd left so unexpectedly and in such a rush ; besides , she 'd expected Suzie to be at the address she 'd been given . |
| 21 | Through her own trusting innocence she was alone with a man who 'd stated quite clearly that he wanted her . |
| 22 | It had been a special childhood , full of laughter and fun ; Mark and she had grown up together as friends , as well as brother and sister . |
| 23 | And who would be there for her at Casa Pinar where she had loved so desperately and lost so painfully ? |
| 24 | Worse still , she had seen almost immediately that it would be the easiest thing in the world to listen for information . |
| 25 | Fen had seen her angry before , but never so angry that she had lashed out physically as well as verbally . |
| 26 | As soon as she realised what had happened she had jumped down guiltily and run home . |
| 27 | She had marched indignantly out when the proposal had been put to her and the matter had remained unresolved ever since . |
| 28 | It was the thing she did best , and she had decided long ago that she would study in earnest as soon as she left school . |
| 29 | They had grown so used to her not joining in that they had not really noticed that she had stayed up there when they came down . |
| 30 | She knew she had gone too far when his eyes narrowed to glittering blue slits . |