Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So perhaps I needed just the one criminal , not two ; but I needed a reason as well . |
| 2 | she said what , what agenda do you want , so I said just the same and so she put the same venue , we tend to alter at the meeting she said |
| 3 | Anyway I made completely the wrong decision with her with her the first time . |
| 4 | I said , well the important thing is Jan if you are like this you obviously did n't like , there 's no way I 'm going to meet her you 're obviously thinking it over I said so the first thing you 've got ta do is turn up on Monday and meet her cos erm , then well you 'll know . |
| 5 | The longer she stayed here the more power he had over her . |
| 6 | Nevertheless they made plain the painful contrast between the limited ‘ privileged ’ areas — the deep black soils of the Guadalquivir or the market gardens and orange groves of Valencia — and the parched , thin limestone and granite soils of the central tableland . |
| 7 | Thus he held together the two things which in the Enlightenment tended to fall apart , and to be defined in opposition to each other — faith against knowledge , revelation against reason . |
| 8 | Guiltily he wiped away the girlish tear-stains with the back of his hand . |
| 9 | Directly he did so the whole village , shops , inns , stalls , and people , and the river of wine , all vanished away ; nothing remained but the waterfall dashing over its crag . |
| 10 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 11 | What she 'd had was a double-booking , effectively , cos she 'd had this dinner which was meant to be in the private dining hall , but the numbers had suddenly shot up , and because they 'd said originally they wanted either the private dining hall or the main dining hall depending on numbers , she should have really booked them both and decided later and told me to like try somewhere else , but she did n't , she told me yeah the dining hall 's free . |
| 12 | Now he wore only the bottom half of pyjamas , thin cotton ones that clung to him , revealing more than they concealed of his strong muscular body . |
| 13 | overpower , you know , creep up on you , I , I 'd , it 'd just get the better of me Eric that 's why I got really the other one you see and that , I , I have n't come to any harm not having it , and erm I 've just got to get rid of this because it 's , I 'd do a lot more Eric if it were n't for the television , I know I 'll miss it when I get rid of it you see , it has been described as a plug-in drug |
| 14 | So either they knew only the uncontaminated documents , which did nothing to strengthen what they believed to be an already strong case , or they knew the documents in their contaminated form , but knew also that they were forged , and kept quiet about them . |
| 15 | Finally , the map representing ‘ Italy in the sixteenth century ’ should be made to show the boundaries between states more clearly and to narrow its time-frame to a period when they remained exactly the same . |
| 16 | At thirty-two , Malcolm McLaren was seven years older than Branson , yet he looked only the same age , possibly even younger : a short and wiry figure dressed in pointed boots , black jeans and a tight-fitting suit jacket of Italianate design . |
| 17 | Too rapidly , however , Mussolini became the junior partner , carrying out the Führer 's personal wishes and dragging Italy into a disastrous war when it had neither the industrial base of Germany , nor Hitler 's personal enthusiasm for total war . |
| 18 | In Burma , where he had only the British Colonial Office and colonial administrators to deal with , he was more or less able to have his way . |
| 19 | King Haakon , defeated by Alexander II of Scotland at the Battle of Largs in 1263 , fled to Orkney , where he died later the same year ; and Norse rule ended when King Christian I pledged Orkney as security for the dowry of his daughter , The Maid of Norway , sent as bride to King James III . |