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 | Idly I turned to a 1975 profile of Dr Arabella Melville . |
| 3 | So I went like a little lamb following a mother sheep , back to the same room . |
| 4 | so I managed for a few weeks and then I went to lodge with my sister at Trimley |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So I embarked upon a new draft of the Regulations . |
| 7 | So I dashed to a central London hotel and sat with both Scotty and his longtime friend , drummer DJ Fontana . |
| 8 | So I stayed on a few weeks and erm then I went back to London |
| 9 | So I settled on a fine bouclé in a tan colour and an equally fine yarn with a slight ‘ whisker ’ in cream . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | So I reckoned on a quick Sunday journey out to Oxfordshire . |
| 12 | There was n't any new town or anything and er they 'd built those er Council houses in the front in and he also erm , he said would I like a nice new house , to have plenty of hot water for the boys for bathing and everything , so I moved into a four bedroom and er I was there , er brought my family up there for , till er , unfortunately my mother came to live with me and unfortunately erm I had to go away erm because I was n't very well on a holiday and I was called back cos she was found dead on the toilet my poor mother and er after that erm I came back and erm , in the middle of the week from holiday , oh bother it will it be okay ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Suddenly she broke into a terrible , loud and demented scream . |
| 15 | So she embarked on a four-month programme of erotic self-education and yoga . |
| 16 | So she waited in a quiet part of the street until people began to stream out of church . |
| 17 | And when they were inside she said in a different voice , ‘ What is going on between you and that girl ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Of the two Johns in the Commons yesterday , only one looked like a Prime Minister . |
| 20 | So we went for a last look round . |
| 21 | So we embarked on a different commercial strategy , trying to implement that that lesson . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | Amongst the Young Socialists , no talk about Southern Africa , especially one delivered by a Conservative Party official , could fail to be political . |
| 24 | There was something faintly sinister about these speechless nuns ; but perhaps they belonged to a silent order . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Lorton won nearly two pounds from the fruit machine so they celebrated with a third pint . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | So everybody put in a general key . |