Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't understand Ward 's behaviour , so I just concentrated on getting out of the city as fast as I could . |
| 2 | This week she finally confessed to carrying on behind her husband 's back . |
| 3 | Yet , in spite of all that , and the old mid-winter recordings within me , that winter — last winter — I never once resorted to glancing up at the pulley with its rope , the exhaust pipe of my car nor even the barrel of my shotgun . |
| 4 | Tony , 47 , who once admitted to drinking up to twelve pints a night , just ca n't resist a good time . |
| 5 | Plod could herd them all together into a group , march them to and from their destinations , depriving them along the way of all alcohol ( not to mention all civil rights ) and beat the living daylights out of any who still insisted on stepping out of line . |
| 6 | I forgot everything I ever knew about standing up for myself and , without argument , I slunk meekly into the night . |
| 7 | At one moment Beveridge can be found looking to the exchanges for the ‘ discouragement ’ of ‘ blind-alley ’ work , but he also warned against starting out with ‘ the idea of rigidly prescribing all but the best employments … |
| 8 | ‘ My nickname was ‘ Rabbit ’ because of my prominent front teeth — so when we decided to get married , I instantly thought of dressing up as the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland . |
| 9 | At school we may have been encouraged , even coerced into running around at sports . |
| 10 | I even thought of going off to Australia , but I re-sat my exams , went back to college and after a bit of nightclubbing eventually got into the gym just to get fit again . |
| 11 | I then thought of running up to the local police station , but I was worried that a train might have come . ’ |