Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Slowly I found out more and more about my marvellous father and though my mother — or perhaps because my mother — cherished his memory like that of nobody else , I found out she had lied to me about him . |
| 2 | At the airport he kept looking back as we were walking towards our plane ; eventually I looked back too and saw an attractive young woman hurrying along after us . |
| 3 | Perhaps I drank too deeply because one of old Shallot 's mottos is , and always has been : ‘ When you are frightened and there 's wine about , drink as much as you can . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps I tried too hard when I would have been better off relaxing . ’ |
| 5 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 6 | I went into the gardens one Sunday morning with the dog found a body in a sleeping bag and I really did n't know whether I thought it was alive or not alive so I went rather closer and I got a very defensive angry stare from a young man and I said to him I 'm not going to ask you to move , because you 've probably got nowhere to go , my real concern is are you okay . |
| 7 | I only got inside the front door cos it 's Tuesday night her night in the kitchen , so I went back home and he did n't half swear at me , he said you bloody well go again you want your head tested , I could have cried I thought oh well cos I did n't feel like rushing around |
| 8 | So I went down there and er well I suppose fell in love with the job right away . |
| 9 | So I went along there cos I thought if she was painting the children will be frozen and nothing to sit on and no |
| 10 | So I breathe out long and slowly , and I shuffle my feet . |
| 11 | Well , well no , no because it was then about , that 's what I 'm is , then four o'clock you see , so I mean I knew I would n't make it anyway that 's why I thought I 'd better ring cos the job that we finished was half past three so I thought well even if I come home I shall be late even if I do n't get changed and washed or anything . |
| 12 | So I relaxed as far as I could , and short of thumping my chest like Tarzan , hoped I was emanating nothing but lovely rude health . |
| 13 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 14 | So I got up immediately and said it would be the end of a beautiful friendship if he accused me of necrophilia ! |
| 15 | So I got up early and went to the judge 's house and told him about the monster . |
| 16 | So I got up then and I spoke to the room you know and we were more or less helping one another out and I thought the Chairman had done well when he said erm they do n't speak er Welsh for fancy or anything they use it as every day . |
| 17 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 18 | So I stepped forward boldly and pulled the sheets away from what they concealed . |
| 19 | So I worked down here and nights up there preparing it and all round this , this place was coat hooks and that , where they all hung their things and I had to knock them down , you know what I mean , and fix me own benches up and er I 'd got a little treadle lather and er sufficient for me to start . |
| 20 | So I called back again and the number was engaged , so I called back again and got through and he 'd left for the day |
| 21 | So I called back again and the number was engaged , so I called back again and got through and he 'd left for the day |
| 22 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 23 | So I turned round then and said right said to Sharan I 'll drop you off at the house and I said when she 's ready I 'll walk up to the shop . |
| 24 | There was a tree house there and nobody knew about it so I climbed up there and I 'd shoot everyone from the roof you know . |
| 25 | So I trooped down there and muscled us in on the Bazooka Joe gig . |
| 26 | Erm and so I wandered up there and had a look at it and photographed . |
| 27 | Sure enough she offered straight away and gave me some lipstick as well . |
| 28 | No sound came out and so she swallowed once more and tried again . |
| 29 | So she sat down again and looked at the clock and she could n't believe what she was seeing : fifteen minutes past ten ! |
| 30 | So you went on ahead and maybe you hung about a bit under the trees . ’ |