Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv] [adv] [conj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall see that , said I , and he answered unabashed , with the invisible instruments twanging and humming and jangling all over the room , ‘ You may see it , but you must not speak about this or anything that has passed here , for I have silenced you as surely as if I had cut out your tongue . ’ |
| 2 | He told me however that two years before he had had his journal stolen and written it out again and that it was better second time around . |
| 3 | Just a frail little thing , was n't she , the wind could have picked her up and tossed her away , yet she had demolished him as surely as if she had wielded a pick-axe handle to his belly . |
| 4 | Right C four from Carlisle to London is three hundred miles gracious me , you see if you 've got a map of England , we have n't got it on here but if you imagine England going up here , Carlisle is right |
| 5 | I kept telling myself that I had killed her — had killed her as surely as if my own hands had sent her plunging down into the muddy waters of the Thames . |
| 6 | Well , I 've read them pretty closely and though there 's no date or any positive indication in them of the order in which they were written , there does seem to be a progression of a sort . |