Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another man had been at the table for some time but Beales only looked at him at this point , curious to know who MacQuillan was with . |
| 2 | David remained close for a brief moment , perhaps hoping that she would retract her words , but Beth only looked at him in that certain proud manner which told him she would not change her mind . |
| 3 | Buddie suddenly reached behind him with one hand , grabbed Frankie by the sleeve and yanked him from his seat at the table . |
| 4 | He looked at her with exasperation when she just gazed at him with wide deep blue eyes . |
| 5 | The mottled old man two beds away stared at them with poached eyes . |
| 6 | ‘ I just saw the box of cigarettes lying there on the table , and everybody else smoking , and I just knew inside me with absolute certainty that I should smoke , too . |
| 7 | By the time he got to me he was n't ranting and raving , he just stared at me with mad eyes . ’ |
| 8 | He hardly flinched , just stared at her in horrified amazement . |
| 9 | Erm erm they just went through it like that and then he gave her instructions on how to fly it as well , how to throw it |
| 10 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 11 | Erm but we were encouraged of course for it to go er as your savings and er something I heard that , that may be interesting to you er and er he just said to me in this other club , but again we were talking about , I think we 'd talking politics then and we 're not supposed to do it was a church club . |
| 12 | Man , she hardly registered with me at all . ’ |
| 13 | The two of them still gazed at me with resentful misunderstanding . |
| 14 | We always referred to them as those ladies of the stage . |
| 15 | ‘ He was so furious , he hardly spoke to me at all . ’ |
| 16 | It fell on the floor and rolled towards Uncle Mick 's feet — and he promptly stood on it with all his forty-year police authority and his size ten boots . |
| 17 | ‘ I thoroughly disagreed with him on numerous issues , ’ said Teller , ‘ to this extent I would like to see the vital interests of this country in hands which I understand better and therefore trust more . ’ |
| 18 | The lack of good results is here explained by faulty equipment ( an explanation also offered to me by other students ) ; however , students gain higher marks for lab work if the results are ‘ correct ’ than if they are wrong but adequately accounted for : |
| 19 | He really lusted after me in those days … |
| 20 | I never really thought of it like that . |
| 21 | In fact , Charles 's highly publicized conversion to vegetarianism can more properly be laid at the door of his former bodyguard , Paul Officer who frequently argued with him during long car journeys about the virtues of a non-meat diet . |
| 22 | ‘ We had builders here for six months before we moved in , and then lived with them for another year , ’ says Sally , who was not only busy with their two young daughters , but was also running a full-time interior decoration business in Cirencester . |
| 23 | A Galk hit a Cun across the face and then tore into it with savage teeth . |
| 24 | And then , in the following year , prompted by his frequent descriptions of his own loneliness — his fear of becoming ill , his dislike of attending receptions alone — she again wrote to him in similar terms . |
| 25 | It never occurred to me at all . |
| 26 | ‘ To tell you the truth it never occurred to me until this minute . |
| 27 | Aye you never heard of him after that . |
| 28 | Never never heard from her at all since then . |
| 29 | Tom had an amazing knack of being able to put all his candidates for the practical examination at their ease , it certainly worked for me in 1967 and was still working for our students in 1991 . |
| 30 | ‘ Everyone seemed to think Benjamin was a virgin , but I never thought of him as that , but that it was the first time he was making love to a woman who was old enough to be his mother , and who was his mother 's friend . ’ |