Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know , Piper , I was so shit scared during the bombardment that I lay on the floor of that trench and prayed . |
| 2 | Yeah , so mum went into the ward and she said he 's awfully yellow , is that normal ? |
| 3 | The mid-century architect Robert Morris makes the case for them with fervour : ‘ the Geographer can travel from one Country to another , through various Climates , over Sea and Land … and yet be only retir 'd to his Closet ’ . |
| 4 | Whenever possible laser and radiotherapy were performed on an outpatient basis although many patients came from long distances so radiotherapy had to be given as an inpatient . |
| 5 | Many felt they would benefit from the assistance of trained cancer counsellors , so work began on setting up the course . |
| 6 | Some visits could not be done with students and so work had to be reorganised . |
| 7 | So Law said of the Liberals in 1914 : " They have become revolutionaries , and becoming revolutionaries they have lost the right to that implicit obedience that can be claimed by a Constitutional Government . " |
| 8 | And so Topaz went to Carlton House and , when the heat of summer came , she and Oswin went to Brighton , following the Regent 's train to a mini-season at that most desirable resort . |
| 9 | As land gradually ceased to be the major source of middle class wealth , and as salaries became more important , so marriage ceased to be an essentially dynastic settlement between two kin groups and it became possible to grant women more freedom , both emotional ( to marry whom they wished ) and legal , within marriage . |
| 10 | Under the sepia of the sky only starlight shone on the frost around her . |
| 11 | For Luther only truth needed to be considered : Cranmer had to take into account the fact that the majority of the English population were probably still Catholics at heart . |
| 12 | As the Poles organised themselves to combat the increasingly virulent Germanisation policies of the new German Reich , so cash flowed into the newly created and increasingly efficient Polish Land Banks . |
| 13 | So Mains looked toward Southern , a senior club with which his family already had strong ties , and it was as a player for the famous club , with their black and white colours , that Mains developed to the point of gaining the Otago side in 1967 . |
| 14 | In those days only Boulestin thought of actually inviting people to lunch to eat scrambled eggs . |
| 15 | Here every grace of hospitality would be offered to all who came , only warmth waited on further exchanges . |
| 16 | The up-grading of the priest meant the down-grading of the layman and , as status declined , so criticism began to be voiced against the ecclesiastical hierarchy and against exclusive administration of sacraments by priests as the sole means of salvation . |
| 17 | I went past one as the sounds of the seven o'clock service grew from behind the gaping shutters . |
| 18 | Apparently only signalling fell outside Darlington 's province . |
| 19 | Nay , would I were so anger 'd with the same ! |
| 20 | The usual 'flu stiffness and aching in the muscles did n't go away as it should have done , so Father sent for Dr Allott , our family physician , a patient , gentle old man who always arrived in an Essex sedan and — more important to us — always carried a pocketful of toffees to give away to children . |
| 21 | So democracy came as a late addition to the competitive market society and the liberal state . |
| 22 | I was squealing with delight at the tricks his middle finger was playing when suddenly Captain leapt on us growling . |
| 23 | So radicalism had to be watered down . |
| 24 | Yet until 1923 much pulp had to be imported from abroad in view of the atrocious transport situation in Belorussia and the chaotic state of the timber industry . |
| 25 | Yes , where erm my next neighbour gave me some stuff erm , then I went into her shed cos she had erm , some mice problems so dad went in there to have a look round , seeing the poison were wore off and we found quite a lot of old gardening chu , tools . |
| 26 | Suddenly unease rose inside her and she faltered as a sudden thought struck her . |
| 27 | Noreens only reassurance lay in Gerry . |
| 28 | So Grandad stuck to tea , and the occasional mug of Bovril when the weather was bad . |
| 29 | Thus development proceeded with the TUTOR board , a BBC microcomputer as terminal , and the UNIX VAX for development . |
| 30 | And the storm went on and on and on ; when finally relief came to the exhausted crews , it seemed the only recourse was to turn tail and head for home . |