Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I strode up there to have this man-to-man chat with Nick . |
| 2 | Eventually she simmered down sufficiently to complete a few small office jobs , and she had just checked the answering machine when the sound of voices floated through the open front entrance . |
| 3 | Eddie Frizzell , chief executive of the Scottish Prison Service , said yesterday he wished once again to make it clear that no discussions had taken place between himself and senior colleagues , or any private sector contractor , on the possibility of managing and funding a private prison in Scotland . |
| 4 | But perhaps also we tend even more to suppress recognition of sexual elements in the child 's feeling for us — or in our feeling for the child . |
| 5 | Also too often they broke away only to lose the initiative by letting the cockney donkeys get back . |
| 6 | Now he did n't actually to begin with , he did n't pick up the concept of counting in tens . |
| 7 | Think of the toddler learning to walk and how often he falls down only to pick himself up and try again . |
| 8 | And local Labour leader John Tompkins called it a scandal , adding : ‘ If the house is vacant , it should be used for the people here who have nowhere else to go . ’ |
| 9 | A competent woman officer told me first , then I went down alone to see Barbara . |
| 10 | Then I came back here to change , before I joined my wife at a dinner party . |
| 11 | And then I decided very reluctantly to have an excavator and for three and a half days it worked down there and erm created a sort of Black Hole Calcutta and put all the stuff it had taken out , it spewed around so that it , there was just mud and no water . |
| 12 | He did , and I heard him say , ‘ Well , at least I lived long enough to meet you , love . ’ |
| 13 | Then she came down here to tell my mum . |
| 14 | I do not know for certain why I went up there to watch them doing it . |
| 15 | So instead you set out either to strengthen your position or to undermine his . |
| 16 | Yeah it 's on a weekend when everybody comes out here to buy their trees and they 're parking they 're cars on the roundabout |
| 17 | Sometimes he wet himself when he was distressed in the night , or when he slept too deeply to heed the warning pains of a full bladder . |
| 18 | The dog got over-excited and took exception to one of the chefs and had to be shut in the barn where he howled mournfully enough to wake the dead . |