Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we 're more or less where we left off last November . |
| 2 | When he moved abruptly to cover her , to force a place for himself on top of her , levering her legs wider to open her body to him , his coarse , muscled weight was a blissful assuagement of hunger , a hunger burning through her so fiercely that she felt almost faint … |
| 3 | He loved theatre so much that he became very angry if it were bad . |
| 4 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | Large pieces of timber take some considerable time to come to equilibrium with the surrounding humidity and , because the English weather changes so often , there was generally no time to build up dangerous differences in swelling strains so that we had comparatively little trouble from this cause , so long as the aircraft were in this country . |
| 6 | They stopped at the end of the harbour wall , and Miguel gently drew Shelley against him , so that they walked back linked together . |
| 7 | He had a beautiful dream of riding Bones like you saw people on the television , leaping great fences , seen from low down so that they looked about ten feet high . |
| 8 | Twice she made the kind of excuse that people made at cocktail parties when they wanted to extricate themselves from a conversation and move on to talk with another guest , but five minutes later he was back at her side again , bending closer and closer towards her so that she became unpleasantly aware of the stale , alcoholic aura of his breath . |
| 9 | Slowly Sara began to see why it was that her mother was so proud of her nationality , for there was something about these simple Portuguese mariners that inspired confidence and trust , so that she became increasingly sure that her decision to leave home and marry João had been well judged . |
| 10 | So much so that he spent fully eight years in a succession of colleges before throwing himself on the tender mercies of the world . |
| 11 | And the Cid followed them to Atienza , and to Ciguenza , and Fita , and Guadalajara , and through the whole land of St. Esteban , as far as Toledo , slaying and burning , and plundering and destroying , and laying hands on all whom he found , so that he brought back seven thousand prisoners , men and women ; and he and all his people returned rich and with great honour . |
| 12 | Now he did smile , and it changed him completely , lifting the lines of his face so that he appeared hardly older than herself , though she knew from Miss Beard that he was almost thirty . |
| 13 | Versatile midfielder ‘ super Alan Pardew ’ joined The Eagles from Yeovil Town for a mere £7,500 in 1987 and made tremendous progress with the Palace , so that he missed only one match during our 1988–89 promotion season , for which his drive , energy and cultured right foot provided an invaluable component , and just two games upon our return to the 1st Division in 1989–90 . |
| 14 | ‘ Ken Russell , the director , insisted I grew one of my own , rather than wear a false one , so that I looked completely convincing . |
| 15 | The latter option was the more frequently adopted , so that it became very difficult to evaluate the contribution , if any , that ERDF expenditure might have made to economic development . |
| 16 | All this time we were still trying to fix up Denmark Street so that it became vaguely comfortable . |
| 17 | She had washed and curled her silvery hair and left it long , brushing it so that it hung over one shoulder in a silky-pale swath , a style she never favoured . |
| 18 | Zurich 's importance as a business centre grew , as did its reputation as a place of refuge , so that it rivalled even that of Geneva . |
| 19 | Rain saw only that he got there first and Harbury was left holding out the wine glass . |
| 20 | But erm , it 's , it 's terrifying , and when we get , as and Jack 's made a good point and , and it is a good one , that perhaps if we spent only half a day when somebody joins the depot and said to them , this is the geography of our depot , and this is where everywhere is , and this is how you get from one side of it to the other . |
| 21 | She was already feeling a bit better and she felt quite amused at this cool domination , especially as she was not going to pay any attention to it . |
| 22 | The iceberg was 155 km long until it broke up last year . |
| 23 | Then the trees closed in and it became very silent . |
| 24 | I kept putting more water in and it got so full . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , you see , it was partly my fault , because I just kept saying you were n't in and he got very abusive because he did n't believe me . |
| 26 | But now , as the shock of what João had done to her began to have its effect , the reaction set in and she felt suddenly lonely and afraid . |
| 27 | Now let's say let's say your mum came in and she said how many for this pizza and we said oh just the three of us and she cut it cut it up into three pieces three pieces all the same size . |
| 28 | And we came and took the cows down and we came back weary or what ! |
| 29 | The wind died down and it became perfectly calm . |
| 30 | So if we knew where any collection of molecules ( like you ) were now , and how they were moving , we might even use scientific laws to predict where you would go on your holidays and save you leafing through all those glossy brochures . |