Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And suddenly I looked so bad . |
| 2 | It was too indefinite , and suddenly I felt very sorry for her . |
| 3 | She did love Alexander , deeply and passionately , and suddenly it seemed quite natural to say so , in spite of the fact that it was only so recently that she had dared to look her love in the face . |
| 4 | In spite of all her fine resolutions , her heart had slammed against her ribs at the sight of him and suddenly she felt decidedly weak at the knees . |
| 5 | And suddenly she felt as stiff and cold and fragile as the champagne glass that was clutched in her shaking hand . |
| 6 | And suddenly she knew how much she longed to see them , to introduce him to them , and to tell them how sorry she was for her wild behaviour over Terry , and for her conceited folly over Havvie . |
| 7 | Ronni was aware of that stiffness about him again , and suddenly she noticed too that , like herself , he had a slightly hollow look about the eyes . |
| 8 | And suddenly he seemed much younger than me . |
| 9 | Then she smiled , and suddenly you knew why all Englishmen loved the Queen . |
| 10 | And so there shone yet another distant sunlit hilltop . |
| 11 | And so I went back two months after . |
| 12 | And er the firm payed me er four shilling , a week , and er the man I was working with , he he , the rest of it was taken out of his er his er wage packet er and put into mine , and so I got about eleven and sixpence a week . |
| 13 | Both of them were away at the moment , and so it seemed particularly peaceful this morning . |
| 14 | " You could say I grew up in service — and so it seemed almost natural that Sarah and I should go into service . " |
| 15 | ‘ He very politely pointed out in each case , ’ recalled Mountbatten , ‘ that it was not the way he would have phrased it , and so it remained virtually unchanged . |
| 16 | MADRID 'S five big daily newspapers carried dozens of pages on the split and only one gave more front page space to another story . |
| 17 | They 'd suspected him , but of course he had made sure that there was no evidence and anyway he had n't any motive . |
| 18 | By this time the manner of Cutter 's death was known throughout ie camp and somehow it appeared disconcertingly trivial for a man " ho had so often exposed himself to such great danger . |
| 19 | I 'd never had other children of my own and somehow she seemed very precious just then , but I never expected to see her . |
| 20 | In 1846 , however , he returned to London to become architect to the Incorporated Church Building Society , the Yorkshire practice being continued by his son John Boham Chantrell , and thereafter he built relatively little . |
| 21 | It took so long , they said , because Motabeng was a village of relatives who married relatives , and nearly everyone had about six hundred relatives . |
| 22 | He used to have a go at driving his father 's Austin Seven around the farm at an early age , and later he became seriously interested in motor racing — not least because Mike Hawthorn winning the Leinster Trophy in 1951 had made a deep impression . |
| 23 | on saving education , he said that I supposed to get the six teachers , he said I 'm gon na get rid of five he said and if I possible can I 'm going to make it four , that got ta remember those of you who are on protected salaries erm you again the pay and a half other members of staff and he said he wanted voluntary redundancies and early retirements where possible , you know , and also he had n't supposed to tell for a month so this will come out later in the year |
| 24 | His fancy had a strange tendency to wander to the river , which he knew was flowing through the great city ; and now he thought how black it was , and how deep it would look , reflecting the hosts of stars — and more than all , how steadily it rolled away to meet the sea ( 6 ) . |
| 25 | [ Dombey and Son , Ch 16 ] The artlessness of the child 's mind is reflected partly in the repetitions " watching it and watching everything " and " deepen , deepen , deepen " ; in the use of common words , especially those with monosyllabic stems : " he thought how the long streets were dotted with lamps " , " and now he thought how black it was " ; and in the way the cohesion of the passage rests on the subject pronoun he and the conjunction and . |
| 26 | From 1940 to 1945 Winnicott was psychiatric consultant to the government evacuation scheme in Oxfordshire , and here he became directly involved with children who proved too difficult to place in foster homes , and in the setting up of hostels to house and care for them . |
| 27 | It was based on a handful of samples and even they showed widely fluctuating results . ’ |
| 28 | Only one Milanese was still proclaiming that ‘ greige ’ is good — and even he sent out token blasts of red , purple and pink to acknowledge a hankering for colour which he personally does not believe in . |
| 29 | He started playing when he was 11 and today he chalked up 70 not out . |
| 30 | We had that one nil down and we thought that was it , there was and then they came back seven goals |