Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I started tracing back the roots , like a lot of kids at the time . |
| 2 | Perhaps someone had taken out the bulb . |
| 3 | So much she wanted to fling back the covers , light incense and candles , worship this adored body . |
| 4 | The Scarabae had been preying on her mind , as in patches they always did , and so she had conjured up the memory to fit a stranger . |
| 5 | No-one cared how long we had taken on the route . |
| 6 | However much one wanted to run down the existing hospitals , demand for beds would keep them open unless patients were quite unscrupulously discharged while still needing considerable care . |
| 7 | Only they 'd blocked up the way in , like , and you could only get in through … |
| 8 | So they had to get up the slope fast . |
| 9 | Together they had done all the things that she had wanted to do and never been allowed to : gone to Coney Island , licked lollipops on the front there , enjoyed herself in funfairs , and ridden on the Big Wheel . |
| 10 | The great hero Sigmar first united the men of the middle Old World into the Empire , and to do so he had to drive out the Orcs and Goblins that lived there . |
| 11 | He do n't love thee since Garty moaned so he had to pay back the two shilling given for thee . |
| 12 | When he had rolled a bundle together he began to take down the tent , grabbing at the guy ropes . |
| 13 | No , somehow I had to cut out the middle-men and middle-women . |
| 14 | Somehow I had picked up the idea that putting the patient in a tub of hot water sometimes had the desired effect . |
| 15 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 16 | At times , pressure on space meant we could not do justice to the work she did for us , but nevertheless she continued to keep up the high standards she set herself . |
| 17 | But only yesterday he had pulled off the best purchase yet — not the biggest , but a vital strip of land running along the foreshore . |
| 18 | When they were inside and once he had cleaned up the cut , he said , ‘ I 'm getting a doctor . ’ |
| 19 | Five minutes later he had slithered down the sandy cliffs , a mug of tea slopping in each hand . |
| 20 | Whenever he tried to go home the old woman would throw a magic ball of thread into his boat and draw him back to shore . |
| 21 | The only rough treatment they got in the first half , worked in their favour , as Jim Magilton was hauled down , but up he bounced to hit home the penalty . |
| 22 | When he came back she had cleared away the supper things and was pressing out biscuit fish with her eldest child 's toy cooking set . |
| 23 | Wexford certainly was n't going to embark on a sabbath day 's journey to Sewingbury , and now they had mucked up the Kingsbrook Road with those flats , there was no longer any point in going there . |
| 24 | Now they had to work out the 24th number . |
| 25 | Now he had sorted out the technique of using the deaf-aid , he found it wonderfully relaxing . |
| 26 | Now he decided to kill off the false one . |
| 27 | Surely this night the unexpected would happen , surely she had summoned up the unexpected . |
| 28 | Yes well it changed see when the war came . |
| 29 | The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before . |
| 30 | Well he had to switch on the interior light to be able to fill out the form . |