Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more I thought about her , the nearer I got to beating off about her now . |
| 2 | There is a conference centre somewhere out in the wilds of nowhere in Derbyshire which I drove past coming back from Buxton . |
| 3 | I was surprised how weak and light-headed I felt on nipping out of my hospital bed to recover a dropped book . |
| 4 | I felt like sitting about with my feet up , knitting . |
| 5 | In the morning , though our route lay the other way , I insisted on going back to the old station for one more look . |
| 6 | I thought about popping out to ! |
| 7 | I thought about running along beside him as we came up to the main road opposite the church , about his taking my hand and singing , ‘ Hold my hand — I 'm a stranger in paradise ! ’ |
| 8 | For a moment I thought of driving out to the Jackson house , and beating out of the lawyer whatever information he had . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought of going out for some choc bars , ’ he would say , adding sotto voce as his daughter ran for her anorak , ‘ and I thought we might drop off at the gym/piano teacher's/library on the way … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I thought of walking down to the beach and having a hamburger at Pepe 's . ’ |
| 11 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 12 | I 've probably finished what little chance I had of getting out of here in one piece . |
| 13 | There were moments when I wondered about getting out from its clutches alive . |
| 14 | She disapproved of the haphazard selection of foster parents ( she would have much preferred the children to go to hostels run on the lines of Bunce Court ) and , when the Movement pressed ahead anyway , she concentrated on plucking out from the crowd the children she identified as especially gifted and on salvaging those who had been packed off to unsuitable foster homes . |
| 15 | She escaped by getting out of the vehicle while it was moving . |
| 16 | She began by waking up on the tail-end of absorbing conversations with the white-robed monk who sat on the chair beside her , and it was n't long before the discussions became a full-time activity . |
| 17 | erm but you homed in on the needs and you persisted in finding out from me what I wanted which was good and you checked very carefully on the policies in existence so yeah , considering it 's a page which erm can be a bit confusing you did very well . |
| 18 | Ana seemed to be almost hungry for company and she took to coming along to Maggie 's room to chat , although she never spoke of her blindness and Maggie ventured no questions . |
| 19 | She very much wanted to read the letter she had received and she thought of crossing over to the Villa Nazionale . |
| 20 | She apologized for skulking out of the way so shamelessly , she thanked me for saving the life of their beloved dog who was now prancing around with the children as though nothing had happened , and she finished with the regret that she had n't even asked me my name . |
| 21 | Angry with Dmitri , who obviously lied about his affairs with adoring women , she felt like pulling out from the carezza ; however , it might wake him , and she would be unable to continue reading the intriguing correspondence . |
| 22 | She felt like running round to his villa right now , in the middle of the night , banging on the door , screaming jealous , incoherent orders at him that she knew he would not obey . |
| 23 | As she heard him come back she refrained from looking out of her window , nor did she go down to the corridor outside his room when , a little later , she heard him groaning as he always did in the grip of a nightmare . |
| 24 | As Seb dismounted beside her , she spoke without looking up at him . |
| 25 | ‘ Staff Nurse , ’ she said without looking up from the notes she was writing . |
| 26 | ‘ Your brief-case is on the dressing-table , ’ she said before turning back to her coffee . |
| 27 | See , if you had of gone down to the shop |
| 28 | She stood outside looking up at a creamy moon , fearful lest some bat might fly into her hair . |
| 29 | Sixty years after Hitler 's Enabling Act of 23 March , 1933 , finally consigned German parliamentary democracy to the dustbin and consolidated the Nazis in power , Sibylle Kaufmann believes that the most important thing she gained from growing up under dictatorship was a heightened sense of spiritual awareness : ‘ Materialistically , everything looked so fine , on the outer side . |
| 30 | We thought about going down on the saturday and staying at Great Yarmouth and then driving to the match . |