Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people are accustomed to follow linguistic rules more or less slavishly , but in this case they would be glad to change if only someone gave them a new set of clear rules to follow ( an earlier work by Miller and Swift was subtitled ‘ New Language in New Times ’ : it seems they take the optimistic view that we are living in a postfeminist world ) . |
| 2 | So I thought it no less than my duty to book us into somewhere special on the west coast for a week . |
| 3 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 4 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 5 | Well , in my book nothing comes before football and so I gave them a simple ultimatum : ‘ Make your choice . |
| 6 | So I found him a small house called Kirk o'Field , outside Edinburgh . |
| 7 | And apparently she phoned her the other night at half past twelve and said can you come and pick me up ? said no . |
| 8 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 9 | So she did what an increasing number of British women are now doing — she had cosmetic surgery . |
| 10 | Suddenly we found ourselves the proud owners of three switchboards , two lines , thirteen phones and a miraculous fax ( ‘ Oooh , you must have to roll them up ever so small ’ ) machine . |
| 11 | So they gave him a special job . ’ |
| 12 | At ten o'clock they gave us a handsome club sweater , which was so generous we decided to let someone else win the domino handicap . |
| 13 | Suddenly he gave her a rueful grin . |
| 14 | MARTIN LYNCH ( Cool Ground ) : ‘ Basically he gave me a great ride . |
| 15 | So he found them a tiny cottage just south of Orvieto , in the grounds of the villa of some Italian friends of his who had departed for the northern mountains , a villa with a pool and a shady veranda along one side and an unspeakably romantic view down the steep hillside towards the floating cathedral . |
| 16 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |
| 17 | His pal his workmate was retired and a few months after , Arthur died , so it left me the one and the owners of the property , they give me notice to quit and no messing about er and when I talked to them , they give me twelve months , rate free , to erm get out . |
| 18 | And the longer he held her the weaker she felt . |
| 19 | okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed . |
| 20 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 21 | Yesterday I fed him the bony scraps from my reindeer stew and he is now mine for ever . |
| 22 | The more she praised me the quicker the needles clicked . |
| 23 | ‘ You know , Holly , there was a man here once who told me an extraordinary thing about women … ’ |
| 24 | The more they reflected upon this the more they realised what a massive amount of fixed capital is necessary to eliminate human intelligence and how incredibly intelligent human beings really are . |
| 25 | There was a cruel smile on his mouth as once more he gave her a comprehensive survey . |
| 26 | In my , in my day probably someone did it a little bit off that , different |
| 27 | Later she made herself a light salad for lunch and ate it on the terrace . |
| 28 | Two days later he granted me a private audience , a remarkable consideration during those eventful days to his youngest and least important guest . |
| 29 | ‘ Come on , old girl , ’ he shouted , ‘ calm down ! ’ and later he found her a scientific paper to read , which she liked . |
| 30 | Not only was he engaged in his publishing work , his meetings of the Moot and the Chandos Group , and his visits to Oxford for the Christian News Letter , but also he set himself a punishing schedule of conferences , talks and lectures ; in the first week of January 1941 , for example , there were six full days of such conferences . |