Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ashenden suddenly seemed more relaxed : ‘ I had a tip . |
| 2 | After that all pretence at restraint was gone as David swiftly undressed then reached out and pulled her down on to him . |
| 3 | The indentured labourers hoped to be able to set up as independent farmers once they had worked off the costs of their passages , but the islands soon became so crowded that they were unlikely to be able to do this . |
| 4 | I 'm sorry I fucking came here worked out dearer this week than they normally do . |
| 5 | ‘ I soon learnt though did n't I , ’ he said , and the dangerous note showed in his voice . |
| 6 | You just farted again did n't you ? |
| 7 | Just said yesterday did n't he ? |
| 8 | Maura just stood there stunned , staring at Margaret lying at her feet . |
| 9 | Oh I just wondered Just wondered who it could be . |
| 10 | He yelled something as he ran/hobbled towards a parked sports car , but I just sat there hypnotized . |
| 11 | She just sat there flushed , slightly embarrassed . |
| 12 | Three initiatives in particular " confirmed " their fears : a seminar series held in 1954 and entitled " Encounters between Poetry and the University " , which were ostensibly purely cultural but always became highly politicized ; a projected " Congress of Young University Writers " , planned for November 1955 by pro-democratic students and progressive Falangists , but banned by the Ministry of the Interior ; and the idea of a " National Congress of Students " , in preparation for which a manifesto calling for the abolition of the SEU monopoly of student representation was circulated in universities throughout Spain in early 1956 . |
| 13 | The area had been going to seed for many years after the ship chandlers who once thrived there went one by one out of business . |
| 14 | She always felt secretly whacked . |
| 15 | Nobody who read the Bible could legitimately doubt that miracles had once occurred ; the question whether they still did so became for doubters a test of their faith . |
| 16 | Later Rose also took charge of St James 's Park across the Mall . |
| 17 | It was easy for him ; the cloak of arrogance he habitually wore probably made him oblivious to the speculation of people like the receptionist . |
| 18 | By the mid-Seventies the $9,000 ranch model was worth $30,000 and more , and the policemen and firemen who originally lived there had been replaced by the middle class . |
| 19 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |
| 20 | I do n't think you really realised really did you ? |
| 21 | Well I had that with this little locum , but er , a South African , did n't feel a thing , mind you a lot of fillings came out thought just had to go back and have it put in again , but she drilled such a small whole that , that , the dentist I saw , another nice young man , cos my dentist had gone , she 's re-filled it , and going to be alright because her fillings out and it was a bit rough , they did n't sort of goes inwards sort of |
| 22 | Well , she had shrugged her shoulders metaphorically at that , and oh , how she wished that she had heeded him , instead of going on what she now saw clearly had been her wilful way . |
| 23 | I rather thought just wanted to contrast it with the other case and er it may not be obvious to the jury but why , why did you want a shot gun that 's a little shorter ? |
| 24 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 25 | The white quivering lights which she so frequently saw probably resembled the white ‘ eels and strings ’ that Ruskin complained of , and had their origin in the psychotic brain . |
| 26 | Mrs Whitehouse consequently felt particularly isolated : |
| 27 | All but one of those who previously answered affirmatively said that the discrepancy was resolved . |
| 28 | I think somebody had sort of started pricing them and then somebody else had probably took over and they ended up with the wrong price on but I did n't mind ! |
| 29 | Moving on to look at the fact I mean you had erm and it is n't the fact that you 're still working in the shop , you 're still helping the shop , you 've had forty years in which you actually lived here did n't you ? about forty years ? |
| 30 | I never went though did you ? |