Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Big chested where their lungs are for running . |
| 2 | An ugly purple flush rose up Miss Jarman 's already heated face as she slowly realized how he had manipulated her questioning . |
| 3 | When I eventually got downstairs she said to my Dad , ‘ Tell him his breakfast 's in the oven if he wants it . ’ |
| 4 | When Katrine eventually got in she found her friend in a state of physical and mental collapse . |
| 5 | I rarely lined up anything with him . |
| 6 | But I did it through the love , fo , that I had for the couple , and that because they had waited sixteen year before they eventually found out they could n't have children ! |
| 7 | Susan Allen 's sister quite rightly asked why she was allowed to draw her gun from the armoury with such apparent ease . |
| 8 | I merely asked why it was a matter for us in the Cabinet Office . |
| 9 | And as I continued to think about how we rarely get the measure of little children , I suddenly realized why they 'd been making so much din . |
| 10 | Recalled to the present by the cold of the flagstones numbing her feet and automatically aligning the cup handles , she suddenly realized why she had remembered that summer teatime in Martyr 's Cottage . |
| 11 | I suddenly realized why he smoked so much and felt queasy all over again . |
| 12 | Then she suddenly made up her mind . |
| 13 | well you know what he did , on Monday morning he was in the garage when he suddenly made up his mind to com to walk across to the paper shop to get a paper and he had n't got er a jacket or any thing on , all he got on was a pull over |
| 14 | I put his age at forty , but even among men twenty years younger he would have been accounted handsome , and he knew it , for his expression showed both confidence and amusement as he continued to hold Ellen 's hand , and he showed even more amusement when she suddenly realised just what liberty she was thus granting him and jerked her fingers swiftly away . |
| 15 | She was about to ask the nearest of the women when she suddenly realised fully what had happened . |
| 16 | Shall we who timidly built up our seclusion |
| 17 | He had been let down several times , they had done all sorts of things without asking him , and sometimes he only found out what they 'd been up to when the papers rang for comment . |
| 18 | ‘ He only found out what he 'd missed a few years ago when some German came in asking questions . |
| 19 | He only found out he had few months to live ! |
| 20 | ‘ Her father is my husband 's first cousin and I only found out who she was when her year was half over , ’ she says . |
| 21 | Choreographers like Bournonville often borrowed from regional dancing , which he eagerly studied wherever he travelled . |
| 22 | At first I thought it was some pimps , the door literally came off its hinges . |
| 23 | We went into my room and sat down on the floor together , and dried each other 's tears ; then I began to laugh a bit , ruefully , because I suddenly imagined how we must look , a hulking great coloured man and a girl sitting snivelling in front of a gas-fire mopping up the tears with dozens of paper hankies . |
| 24 | She cried until she could cry no more , until she felt sick , until her head ached , and when she finally stumbled up to bed she merely threw off her clothes and climbed , shivering , between the icy covers . |
| 25 | Jerome crept to the foot of the steps , and there halted , baulked , rather , like a startled horse , drew hard breath and assayed to mount , and then suddenly threw up his arms to cover his face , fell on his knees with a lamentable , choking cry , and bowed himself against the stone of the steps . |
| 26 | The landlord , a thin ashpole of a man , completely bald except for a stray lock of hair which constantly drooped over his eyes , wiped his greasy hands on a dirty apron , served them and scurried off . |
| 27 | Isabelle Pech pursued Richard Burley to Britain after he suddenly broke off their summer romance and disappeared . |
| 28 | They basically carved up our surplus between them and each supported the other and overriding all of that is that each and every one of them was an active member of the scheme . |
| 29 | And we only flew about I think it was four thousand feet , that we flew and we thought this was terribly high . |
| 30 | Although he only took up his duties in mid July , he has already attended several branch meetings and has supported branch representation at a number of summer events . |