Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instinctively I went into a steep spiral dive , furiously angry that I had been beaten at my own game . |
| 2 | So I went with an open mind . |
| 3 | So I went like a little lamb following a mother sheep , back to the same room . |
| 4 | So I slept in a little damp attic room which smelt of apples , my head not very far away from the dream-troubled heads of Shelley and his mistress . |
| 5 | So I embarked upon a new draft of the Regulations . |
| 6 | So I dashed to a central London hotel and sat with both Scotty and his longtime friend , drummer DJ Fontana . |
| 7 | So I settled on a fine bouclé in a tan colour and an equally fine yarn with a slight ‘ whisker ’ in cream . |
| 8 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
| 9 | So I reckoned on a quick Sunday journey out to Oxfordshire . |
| 10 | At 4 o'clock I posed in a flower-decked kiosk wearing Amy 's brand-new Marks and Spencer 's floral cotton and an awful lot of Elizabeth Arden 's Flawless Finish . |
| 11 | Caroline looked back at him and suddenly she thought of an old fable , the one in which a traveller had to choose which of two doors to open , knowing that behind one lay safety while behind the other crouched a tawny black and gold tiger . |
| 12 | Suddenly she broke into a terrible , loud and demented scream . |
| 13 | So she embarked on a four-month programme of erotic self-education and yoga . |
| 14 | So she waited in a quiet part of the street until people began to stream out of church . |
| 15 | And when they were inside she said in a different voice , ‘ What is going on between you and that girl ? ’ |
| 16 | He started to move , slowly at first and then faster in response to her pleas , and then suddenly everything disintegrated in a wild starburst of colour and sensation that left her shaken and helpless in his arms . |
| 17 | Of the two Johns in the Commons yesterday , only one looked like a Prime Minister . |
| 18 | So we embarked on a different commercial strategy , trying to implement that that lesson . |
| 19 | So we decided on a special release pattern — an opening in New York a couple of months before any place else , play-off in small theatres with long engagements , letting word of mouth build an audience . ’ |
| 20 | Amongst the Young Socialists , no talk about Southern Africa , especially one delivered by a Conservative Party official , could fail to be political . |
| 21 | They were now proceeding up a driveway bordered on each side by shrubs : and then quite suddenly they emerged into an open area . |
| 22 | There was something faintly sinister about these speechless nuns ; but perhaps they belonged to a silent order . |
| 23 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 24 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 25 | Anne and Chris did n't want to return full time to stressful teaching jobs when their maternity leave ended , so together they sent in a joint application for a full-time position with a covering letter pointing out the benefits of job sharing , and the way they could organize their week and their timetable . |
| 26 | The girl opened a door with a Yale key — giving even this limited movement a lucid flow of limb — and together they stepped into a dark room . |
| 27 | So everybody put in a general key . |
| 28 | I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home . |
| 29 | I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant . |
| 30 | Initially reluctant to tackle the area of post-war policy ( doubtless with thoughts of Lloyd George 's empty words of a quarter-century previously ) , when he did so he insisted on a full-blooded promise over the opposition of many in his party and administration . |