Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 This made me aware of how badly I 'd done with the domestic arrangements .
2 Luckily I had run off a faint quality copy ( like this letter ) to economise on ink cartridge use as cartridges £14 or so each .
3 I was one of her props though eventually I got moved into the backs because I was so good looking ! ’
4 Suddenly I felt detached from the baby .
5 So I put away my little brown bottle of herbal remedies , turned my back upon much I had learned at the Centre , and before leaving for Hungary and all that forbidden goulash , took three quite definite steps .
6 No apparently I 'd gone in the bog , I was n't feeling bad or anything .
7 ‘ If only I 'd listened to the old folk telling their stories . ’
8 So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time .
9 So I had stood for a little while on the bridge and saluted as the ship went down after all .
10 So I had to stand outside the door
11 So I had to walk from the , you know the flats half way down Ashton Lane ?
12 I think so I said said to the bloke before
13 So I began to look for a husband .
14 So I got caned on the palms of my hands .
15 So I got to stay with the dogs and
16 So I 'd to go to the washing racks for fourpence a day .
17 ‘ I only know that during the half-hour or so I sat staring through the top windows of the tram , I saw nothing , not one single thing , that could possibly raise a man 's spirits .
18 So I happened to say to the footman , I say :
19 He asked me low long I 'd worked for the firm and what my duties were and what Doreen did .
20 Then for twice that long I sat twitching on the shower 's deck , the silver snout tuned to full heat and heft but doing nothing much to wash off my rot .
21 Berndt said , as though it were his incisive wit alone which had arrived at the nub , ‘ The question is , what do we do with her in the meantime ?
22 Suddenly she seemed to take in the reality of what she was doing and all her confidence fled .
23 Everything she 'd ever wanted laid temptingly before her — only she had looked behind the scenes and knew the display was a hollow sham .
24 Idly she began to stab at the wet ground with it , but it struck something hard straight away .
25 Shannon never knew how long she lay slumped on the floor , racked by the agony of Dane 's betrayal , immobilised by sheer unremitting pain , yet unable even to find relief in tears .
26 There was no way of being certain how long she 'd spent on the ward ; it might have been six weeks or six years , but she was guessing at six months because this had been the first commission review that she 'd received .
27 Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney .
28 Perhaps she had fled at the news of my coming .
29 Yeah , but I thought perhaps you wanted to get into the freezer
30 And just as impulsively she turned to check on the movements of that incalculable swarm of half-grown children who were causing him this natural anxiety .
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