Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] and [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In choosing between the goals towards which I spontaneously tend , I may find myself being excited more strongly by what I perceive here and now than by what I imagine from other viewpoints , so that for example a present amusement obliterates consciousness of a future danger . |
| 2 | I declare here and now that I intend to follow that same path . |
| 3 | and I mean really and honestly that not worth bothering to sew them up , they 'll do for work , but that 's all |
| 4 | " Although I did my utmost to preserve an emotional detachment " , he writes , " I found again and again that the material under my hands was strangely alive ; it spoke to my condition in the most uncanny way . " |
| 5 | But when he was n't fighting shadows , he 'd just spend the morning dozing on his mattress while I paced back and forth and sometimes did a few push-ups and other exercises . |
| 6 | I drove slowly and unambitiously and the Brooklands responding with smoothness and quiet to rival the best , all the time asking so little of the driver that it was positively soporific . |
| 7 | I vowed there and then that I would n't be like that again . ’ |
| 8 | The letter said : ’ I state categorically and solemnly that you have been misled . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I decided there and then that I wanted nothing more to do with him , ’ she says . |
| 10 | I decided then and there that it was a good thing to be without wax . |
| 11 | ‘ I went home and just after I got in my mother phoned ; she must have known from my voice that something was wrong . |
| 12 | I wished more and more that Holmes could leave London and come to Baskerville Hall . |
| 13 | She got up and then when it came round to singing Jerusalem and Edie was put out at not singing Jerusalem , this is another one off the psychiatric list and Pat goes |
| 14 | She tried again and again until Jack grabbed his own . |
| 15 | Once she tells us that she woke up and then that she prepared breakfast , we assume certain facts : that she got out of bed , for example . |
| 16 | She sighed deeply and raggedly and shook her head becauase it was all impossible . |
| 17 | Her heart was hammering hard but she knew that if she breathed slowly and deeply and looked long and intently at the comforting ritual of man and beast before her , the thudding would subside . |
| 18 | So you do n't ask and you get sort of so that you understand less and less and eventually you think , Oh I do n't feel like going to school today it 's fractions again . |
| 19 | And now it was coming true , because he was smiling … and she decided there and then that it was one of the nicest smiles she had ever seen . |
| 20 | She decided then and there that she was not going to stand for it . |
| 21 | She stormed off and away and the last thing she saw was Felipe helping Mitch out of the pool , his dark face still lightened by a very wide grin . |
| 22 | She felt a sensation of heat building up between her legs as she rubbed harder and faster and held her gaze on Ward 's picture as the pleasure grew more intense . |
| 23 | She did not like what her life demanded of her , but she knew painfully and absolutely that the moment for truth had come . |
| 24 | Thinking about the various stages you go through and then once you 've reached the level of department managers at , on a lot of issues you tend to be at this stage but it 's important to remember that a number of your staff may be down here somewhere . |
| 25 | She learned quickly and eagerly and soon acquired sufficient know-how to join Anne Mowbray in the small schoolroom . |
| 26 | She spoke quietly and politely and without any sign of showing off . |
| 27 | We talked back and forth and eventually went back to the old Sun studio and did a few tracks down there . |
| 28 | We decided there and then that would be our next target . |
| 29 | and vital that we do n't and just as we said this morning said we would n't preempt and pre-judge the community of the St Albans District Council on the er on the transportation study . |
| 30 | and it grown and that 's it , no , they 've got ta bombard it with chemicals and all sorts , they want more and more but what 's the good of producing more and more , but all these people all over the world dying of hunger |