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 like a little lamb following a mother sheep , back to the same room . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So I embarked upon a new draft of the Regulations . |
| 5 | So I dashed to a central London hotel and sat with both Scotty and his longtime friend , drummer DJ Fontana . |
| 6 | So I settled on a fine bouclé in a tan colour and an equally fine yarn with a slight ‘ whisker ’ in cream . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | So I reckoned on a quick Sunday journey out to Oxfordshire . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Suddenly she broke into a terrible , loud and demented scream . |
| 11 | So she embarked on a four-month programme of erotic self-education and yoga . |
| 12 | So she waited in a quiet part of the street until people began to stream out of church . |
| 13 | And when they were inside she said in a different voice , ‘ What is going on between you and that girl ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Of the two Johns in the Commons yesterday , only one looked like a Prime Minister . |
| 16 | So we embarked on a different commercial strategy , trying to implement that that lesson . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Amongst the Young Socialists , no talk about Southern Africa , especially one delivered by a Conservative Party official , could fail to be political . |
| 19 | There was something faintly sinister about these speechless nuns ; but perhaps they belonged to a silent order . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | So everybody put in a general key . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She did not say anything more so he added in a real voice and proper words , ‘ Delia , I have to . ’ |
| 29 | In doing so he conceded to a key opposition demand and thereby appeared to have ended an opposition boycott of the legislature which had been called to protest against the government 's decision in early 1992 to postpone local elections . |
| 30 | So he settled for a secure telephone call , indifferent to what that would do to Maxim 's reputation among the Defence Staff at the embassy . |