Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She started to think that she had a vocation for taking heroic decisions , but it was really nothing more sustaining than a rabid kind of recklessness that erupted suddenly and then left her feeling bleak and inept . |
| 2 | George fumbled out the little pinhole torch and watched as Maxim delicately smeared a film of shoe polish on the end of his key then probed ag in and immediately withdrew it to study the marks on the polish . |
| 3 | Of the British-born Black artists , who went to art school , how did they get in and how did they get on ? |
| 4 | She apologized for slowing him down and twice advised him to leave her . |
| 5 | I looked down and suddenly realised I had forgotten to bring my own umbrella to work that morning . |
| 6 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 7 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 8 | He was watching this house at ten o'clock and then told you to follow the two gentlemen who came out of it . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The murderer was locked in but how did he get out ? |
| 10 | it sort of er er gave them lee a , ladies leeway who wanted to work after they were married , some married and then could they come back well they could n't keep me on and not let them work you see , so oh yes it was mostly married women , there were a lot of married women there when I left , but erm it sort of set a precedent I suppose for , for them but it did , it did them some good really . |
| 11 | Some man at the college had arranged it for her … she more or less admitted she 'd worked on him . ’ |
| 12 | Yeah , a and in fact in the programme I th the one that Barbara was in , I can remember the er , as it happens , I , I was out er when that programme came on and I taped it so I s I , I 've still got that particular programme , and the lady at the end er on one of her questions she 'd obviously forgotten what she was going to say er and sort of made something up and er she turned to er as they were just panning away from her , she turned to her next door neighbour and more or less said I forgot what I was going to say , you know . |
| 13 | like I said we at least to go on one complex exercise every month which , although they ca n't physically make you go on it there was , you know , they more or less made you go sort of thing pay to do and then we were there the other weekend we had one of these weekends where be more fun , really hard work though it 'll be more fun for |
| 14 | He refused to come downstairs into the cellar but more or less instructed me to return to Oakington at once , as the Commander-in-Chief wanted to speak to me . |
| 15 | You you more or less guessed I suppose it would somehow get get to be known by somebody you know . |
| 16 | I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else . |
| 17 | Curiously it was the less forward-looking G major Sonata which in the faster figuration of its flanking movements once or twice had me longing for the greater clarity of a modern grand — likewise its greater ability to sing in the slow movement . |
| 18 | Because she knew she swelled and paled , in the grip of her look , she smiled even more and then invited them to start talking about their plans for their future home , which they did at once , and ceased to notice her . |
| 19 | Conservation was all right but when did it lapse into deterioration ? |
| 20 | Whether this belief is carefully and officially nurtured I do not know . |
| 21 | steps up and right footed he blasts it into the bottom corner , it subdues the Shrewsbury crowd somewhat , Blackburn fans are rampant because at last there 's some light for them but they 're still trailing Shrewsbury by three goals to two . |
| 22 | She 's typed up and then said she 's hyped up because her sister works for the R S P C A , and she 's |
| 23 | 122 miles you 've just pushed this seven and a half ton truck I believe yet what was the one moment that really stood out or really got you going ? |
| 24 | Mr Middleton came from behind and repeatedly whipped it to get it over the gate . |
| 25 | at the the time I think when I was n't being assertive and when I was n't the difference was the person was younger than me and I was being assertive and then when I perhaps was n't and like said you feel after that you 've let yourself down . |
| 26 | Cos I remember you singing it a while ago but where did you get it from ? |
| 27 | How and why did you adopt her ? ’ |
| 28 | They made him dig a grave in the rocky ground at 1.00 am and then forced him to lie in it while they shovelled earth over him . |
| 29 | And I just stood there and just watched him blow lead . ’ |
| 30 | He had not expected Rain to be there and definitely expected her to leave before he did . |