Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The next morning I was sitting in the garden in the sun when suddenly I saw young Rupert of Hentzau on horse- back coming through the trees towards me .
2 Suddenly I had this vision of him having taken an overdose and phoning to say goodbye .
3 to be , to be replacing that , so I said twenty pounds off the top of my head , so Brampton Theatre have agreed to that as well
4 So I sprinkled this stuff inside every pair of knickers in the drawer and then folded them all up again carefully . ’
5 But I always wanted to travel , and so I made several voyages as a ship 's doctor .
6 SO I asked some friends of mine who were in the antique business from , Indiana , pick it up .
7 For another five years work , so I served five years in Germany too as a , as a miner .
8 I was lucky Nick and she was pretty Ellen , and so I ordered another bottle of the sticky white wine and we let our dreams take wings .
9 So I developed five acres on my own account and things just went on from there .
10 So I felt inexpressible gratitude to you for giving me the support and care of that relationship , however attenuated it appeared to me at times :
11 So I sent that piece under the impression that there would be no problem having it accepted and that afterwards we would see how the public reacted to it .
12 So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings .
13 And er so I spent several years in the I L P as a secretary and at that time met er the people who ran the place .
14 So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay .
15 For too long I thought this type of training was not the responsibility of the vet .
16 For so long I resisted any change to my hairstyle — I thought I knew what suited me — I was entrenched in an image that I had held from years gone by .
17 So nobody had any problems with that .
18 While waiting for her passengers as they inspected isolated gun-sites on windswept clifftops and rocky promontories , Liza was urged by her passengers to switch on the car engine to keep herself warm , however much she knew this procedure to be frowned upon by her direct superiors at Command Headquarters .
19 All night long she made mental notes of all the transactions being made , the profits , the losses , meetings , separations , the wanting , having , getting , seeing , the excess , the moderation , the negotiations ; all those men trying to work out what they wanted , what they could afford , what they needed .
20 Perhaps she sought some prolongation of that feeling of joy and unity and excitement , the festival holiday feeling , the warm inclusion , yes , even being embraced by those formidable satiny bosoms and kissing the soft powdery cheeks of the old women , had made her feel part of it all .
21 When she found her mother was no longer giving her the attention she craved she worked harder to obtain it so she strewed more objects on the floor .
22 All biopsy specimens include muscularis mucosae ; however only one contained sufficient submucosa for analysis of submucosal staining .
23 We have not yet been sufficiently educated to realize that the risk of dying from the greatest killer disease in the Western world could be drastically reduced if only we took preventative measures by eating sensibly and looking after our bodies .
24 So we made this room into a chapel again .
25 So we spent seven weeks in Christchurch altogether .
26 In Scotland , Members of Parliament from both sides of the House and local government employees and councillors stupidly said that they would continue with the revaluation , and so we had five-year revaluations until 1985 .
27 Mums and toddlers thought it was wonderful , we only had half a dozen you see in there cos it was low numbers all round so we had low numbers in the
28 So we had this idea of getting other people to buy it with us . ’
29 So we stayed five days in this backpackers ' , had a look round Auckland , visited MOTAT the Museum of Transport and Technology , opened a bank account , sold the Krugerrands which had been left to us by my Mum and which financed at least half the trip , and recovered from jetlag by sleeping only at night .
30 So we built this snowman round this rock and this car came back cos he came he just came in to hit it and he burst into and broke his bumper .
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