Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt uneasy and the back of my neck was prickly with sweat , but relentlessly I kept the same pace towards them . |
| 2 | Slowly I unfolded the thick paper and spread it flat in front of me . |
| 3 | The initial research provided nothing , but eventually I discovered the scientific name and came up with a photograph of Synbranchus marmoratus , also known as the Marbled Swamp Eel . |
| 4 | Eventually I thought the only way I could control what I was doing was to decide on one specific charity — I chose Muscular Dystrophy — and work just with them , which is what I did . |
| 5 | Only nothing happened the next day and Chesarynth knew she was right not to trust herself because she could n't tell waking from dreams of an endless corridor with people whispering about her behind locked doors . |
| 6 | Suddenly I heard the guttural roar of fire from my studio above . |
| 7 | Suddenly I realized the awful truth . |
| 8 | When I got halfway I heard the angry voice of the French maid saying very aggressively : ‘ You got nobody like Napoleon ! ’ |
| 9 | Basically I had the wrong equipment at Reading '88 . |
| 10 | Oddly enough I met the same warrant officer some years later when he was SWO on a station near Warboys and we had many a chuckle about that . |
| 11 | Perhaps I had the same look once , though I 've lost it now . |
| 12 | Perhaps I had the wrong expectations . |
| 13 | so I had the older ones from Goose Hill |
| 14 | So I said the only thing he would believe . |
| 15 | It 's for our new one again you see so I rolled the front seat down put my brief case on the front seat so he says , where 's your van then mate ? |
| 16 | Or so I heard the other day over lunch from Patricia Routledge , best known as television 's appalling social climber , Hyacinth Bucket . |
| 17 | So I thought the shorter journey would be better . |
| 18 | The trouble was I started wanting to play straight-ahead rock and heavy metal and so I left the traditional blues stuff on the back burner . |
| 19 | And so I left the old lady in her bride 's dress in the candle-light , with the dusty furniture around her . |
| 20 | So I Nureyeved the front steps and flowed through the door in a single motion of Yale and Chubb . |
| 21 | So I became the only bluesman in Kensal Green . |
| 22 | So I spent the 4 weeks living in a style to which I was not accustomed , but found no difficulty in adopting ! |
| 23 | I could n't stand the thought of him seeing anyone else and so I did the only thing I could think of : I decided to spy on him . |
| 24 | So I did the logical thing — for a gambler , that is . |
| 25 | is totally different so I did the first lecture with what my idea of to find myself talking to a a contract housing guy whose biggest order was two thousand pounds |
| 26 | Erm so I did the two year C C Q S W course . |
| 27 | The Transit being left-hand drive , I was nearest to her so I did the gentlemanly thing . |
| 28 | So I decided the first thing we had to do was define the difference between lead gear and bass gear , so we had to completely change the look . |
| 29 | Gingerly she lowered the sweet-tempered child into the cot , not taking her eyes from her exquisite face , Ruth stood gripping the sides of the cot with fingers whitened in an attempt at stopping them shaking . |
| 30 | Gingerly she backed the old Mini away from the Bentley , then pushed the gear lever into first and began to drive forward a couple of feet . |