Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And suddenly Morse knew where the body had been launched into the river and into eternity ; knew , too , that if Lucy Downes could so quickly arouse the rather sluggish libido of a Lewis , then it was hardly difficult to guess her effect upon the lively carnality of a Kemp .
2 So Vasilissa brought in the skull .
3 So HM spun out the agony .
4 So Léonie plucked out the letter Thérèse indicated , the one that she had replaced on top .
5 So Steve took on the singer 's mantle , but how does he think he 's shaping up as a guitarist/vocalist ?
6 However , only Sally knew where the bridleway left the reservoir and headed to the pub , so she ensured she was in the lead at that point , and then promptly declared her race over as she would not risk galloping the remaining mile of road .
7 Meanwhile Mo smashes out the hole in the corner of the house sort of thing where they 're gon na go and they ai n't there .
8 Quickly Sophie picked up the telephone and rang through to the house .
9 And if all these should flicker out like candles , still his young , lusty brother Edmund , strong as a stag , and ripe for marriage , capable of getting more sons , more Mortimers to carry on the line and the claim to eternity .
10 A few minutes later Romany pulled off the tarpaulin .
11 A few days later Jack took over the shift at 9pm .
12 Hurriedly now Agnes weighed out the tiger nuts ; then , glancing at the newcomers again , she smiled and said , ‘ I 'm sorry . ’
13 Although Mill may have been thinking of the romantic poet speaking gloomily to himself , here Leapor holds out the prospect of good gossip , and the reader is set to overhear the conversation :
14 Experimentally , this issue is far from tractable , and here Donaldson points out the advantage of supplementing experimental evidence with naturalistic observation ( see Donaldson , 1978 , Chapter 5 ) .
15 For the latest decade , even Britain moves up the field : it and America both outpaced France and West Germany .
16 Because he also enjoys snooker , four years ago Marjorie took up the game , so that they could play together .
17 Only today Dave revealed how the conversation really went : ‘ Hi , my name 's Dave . ’
18 Presumably C.M.C. took over the running of the centre soon after that .
19 But then Knup grabbed back the lead in the 72nd minute and ten minutes later , Georges Bregy thundered home a 30-yard free-kick .
20 Then Eli asks how the battle has gone .
21 Then Berwick turned up the power to land five 5–1 heat victories in a runaway finish .
22 More topically Smith drives home the absurdity of the present British water industry installing meters in households and then setting up a huge bureaucracy to monitor them and gather payment — a move that will make water much more expensive ( and thus more attractive to the private companies which will eventually provide it ) .
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