Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I tried to go as fast as I could , but it was easy to let the sail out and slow down if I felt I was getting out of control . |
| 2 | I tried to look straight ahead until I reached the top , then I entered our attic room and stood there as my eyes accustomed themselves to the dim light . |
| 3 | I learnt to look ahead so as not to run out of stores . |
| 4 | By ten I 'd crawled as far as the door . |
| 5 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 6 | Certainly ten years ago , in the flood-tide of my research interest in wild primates , I began wondering more critically than before about the applications of ethological theories to man , the species . |
| 7 | I decided to walk as far as Bellanoch where a friend would pick me up for that weakening hospitality again - a dear old Sister Brush who shames me with her eighty-year-old energy , integrity and artistic confidence . |
| 8 | Living in San'a , I was initially engrossed in the visual aspects of the architecture , but as I became involved with the Yemeni families , I started to record as accurately as possible all aspects of the traditional San'a culture that was rapidly being swallowed up by Western influence . |
| 9 | ‘ I managed to get away earlier than expected , ’ he replied . |
| 10 | It 's taken longer than I thought to get as far as this . |
| 11 | Because of my injury I did get as far as the Spanish Steps and the shops in Rome , but that was the extent of my sightseeing . |
| 12 | so I said go on then so he said , well he |
| 13 | By some mix-up , my papers did n't seem to be in order and I had to hold on there until the proper American visa came through . |
| 14 | I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral . |
| 15 | I had to sit down twice because of the roast beef and everything , which had gone straight to my legs . |
| 16 | He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains . |
| 17 | I had to ring twice more before Jozef answered the phone . |
| 18 | ‘ I had to rush off just as he was about to arrive . |
| 19 | There was no fire and I had switched off long before the port wing touched the ground , I saw him hare across the airfield diagonally opposed to the direction of the hangar , and indeed the aircraft , and at the same time he was haring away towards Findhorn . |
| 20 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 21 | The disparaging rant I wrote contained no less than two spelling mistakes . |
| 22 | The riding became more regular and I wanted to ride more often than I could . |
| 23 | Her desires were my only hold over her , so despite her frantic pleas I refused to go any further than finger-fucking until she had signed on the dotted line . |
| 24 | She 'd lived there partly because she could n't be bothered to move , partly because it was cheap , but mainly because her mother would n't let her go . |
| 25 | He might have the advantage of size and strength , but thanks to the martial arts classes she 'd taken as regularly as she could over the past few years , she had a few tricks of her own up her sleeve . |
| 26 | That brief reference to his stepfather was haunting her , and she wished she 'd found out more while she had the chance . |
| 27 | A few minutes later , when she 'd got as far as wrapping herself in her host 's dressing-gown , Penry Vaughan knocked loudly on the door . |
| 28 | She seemed to vanish as quickly as she had appeared , leaving Ianthe to be pushed forward into the train , where she stood in a daze until she found herself sitting down in a seat offered to her by a small boy . |
| 29 | Aghast , incredulous , she craned to see more clearly if this was indeed her own mad forebear toying there inside her thought ; and he turned to leer at her . |
| 30 | ‘ A-actually , ’ she managed to stammer as haughtily as she could , ‘ I 'm not playing at all , but you wo n't believe me . ’ |