Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fans , yes , no , , building , you know , , and then the , they made trouble again and then for every down they did n't pull something down and so they had to pay oh so many er thousands . |
| 2 | Now , in the privacy of the bedroom of his personal suite , swiftly and silently he began to change into the black clothing he wore when prowling the night for victims . |
| 3 | ‘ Sooner or later we had to start hitting the back of the net . |
| 4 | It was a calculated guess but sooner or later he expected to hit lucky , and here on the fringe of a large private estate the chances were better than anywhere . |
| 5 | He was here , somewhere in the building , and sooner or later she had to face him . |
| 6 | They took that first thing before they went upstairs to wake her up and and she did n't know who it was , well she looked up and well it just took her breath away and then she tried to wake her husband up , cos she did n't like that , when he got up , he chased them . |
| 7 | She would have liked to sleep again but found she could not and so she had to get up . |
| 8 | ‘ But I knew there was a book in me somewhere and so I decided to put my personal experiences of the war down on paper . ’ |
| 9 | Once or twice he began to say something , paused and then branched out to another subject which had no connection with the one before . |
| 10 | In a sibilant , fluttering voice he read his reply from the throne in Annamese , but his delivery , unlike the Frenchman 's , was hesitant and nervous and once or twice he stopped to swallow in mid-sentence . |
| 11 | Once or twice she seemed to look about her nervously . |
| 12 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 13 | The haughty face was still for a second more and then he began to laugh softly , warm , dark laughter that took her completely by surprise . |
| 14 | and at eight o'clock I went home and anyway he went to pay me my weeks money and h he gave me an extra ten pound |
| 15 | As I say , if you by the time you get home and then you got to exercise them erm and then you 've got to get back and feed them and then feed yourself and keep warm and think of you know , what you got to wear the next day the time 's gone ! |
| 16 | We moved it once and apparently it had to go a zoo after that cos when we moved it back it was about twelve foot long , and then of course it g grew even larger than that . |
| 17 | Slowly but surely they began to fill my every thought , until it reached the stage where I could no longer cope with daily life . |
| 18 | As regards the growth of the church , about a year after beginning to meet , slowly but surely we began to grow . |
| 19 | Sugar beeting in those days , you used to stick the old plough in , plough them up and then we had to go along knocking them , to knock all the soil off , then chop the tops off , put them in heaps , go along with the old horse and cart . |
| 20 | He frowned slightly and suddenly she longed to say something , to try and explain why she had acted the way she had . |
| 21 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 22 | the other one , but even though it opens outwards , a bit comes in and a bit comes out and so he had to chip away at the |
| 23 | Really , the week before , every now and again I wanted to stick . |
| 24 | Now and again I stopped to stretch my aching back . |
| 25 | and every now and again he had to take off er he had to come off poorly . |
| 26 | Every now and then he stopped to peer out through a slit in the tent wall arid check that Jacques Devraux was still seated with the American hunting party at the table in the canter of the clearing . |
| 27 | The peer was silent but I knew he was following my progress intently because every now and then I had to brush aches from the surface of the uterus . |
| 28 | and then I come back and then I went to see them again and they were all on a great big table as though they were celebrating a party and Joyce said er |
| 29 | Er , the woman put her hands up as well and then we started to move away from the door , er across the room er to avoid being stuck as a silhouette in the doorway . |
| 30 | it was n't good because erm I did n't love him and right so , so if I kissed him and met him the next day would I , would I snog , would , would he , he 'd give me the hat so I said yeah sure , you know , whatever , so he goes okay and he like prepared himself and goes no I ca n't do it in here and so I had to go outside with him , snog him , got his hat and pissed off , never saw him again . |