Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While nineteenth-century Catholic teaching had been suspicious of ‘ human rights ’ discourse , John embraced it eagerly and made it a central theme , greatly extending the range and number of ‘ rights ’ , including those of minorities ( 95–7 ) and refugees ( 103–8 ) . |
| 2 | I approached it eagerly and touched it . |
| 3 | He took the paper eagerly and folded it carefully into his wallet . |
| 4 | If that council harboured its resources sensibly and deployed them effectively , it would be able to spend them in the way that the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 5 | When his lips came back to hers , Jenna was soft and pliant , no resistance in her at all , and he rolled on to his back , pulling her over him fiercely and cupped her hot face in strong fingers . |
| 6 | Christina decided he looked happy enough and left him to enjoy himself . |
| 7 | So one day my girlfriend just had enough and told them to fuck off . |
| 8 | He was pleasant enough and told her all she needed to know . |
| 9 | He had drunk enough and wished he had n't . |
| 10 | When he felt he had said enough and made us laugh enough , he went back to his dressing room . |
| 11 | Do n't I get old enough and did me best perhaps he might change his mind |
| 12 | Well erm if I 'm crystal ball gazing , I would hope that all the women in this country , whatever their colour and whatever their class , would have access to first-class provision for their young children , so that if they wished to work they could actually work in jobs that paid them enough and gave them job satisfaction . |
| 13 | In fact , the skirmish never took place because the enemy crossed the river further upstream and took their objective ‘ by the back-door ’ . |
| 14 | With this , she once more wrapped up warmly and made her way to the stable . |
| 15 | So he received Tess warmly and asked her how her family were . |
| 16 | We drove into Sligo , where Peter shook my hand warmly and wished me luck . |
| 17 | The scriptwriter — a trim , balding man in his fifties with a moustache — squeezed Dexter 's hand a little too warmly and gave him a serious smile of appraisal . |
| 18 | We even paid a surprise visit to Corsham , where Rosemary and Clifford Ellis welcomed us warmly and invited me to give a series of lectures and classes . |
| 19 | He grinned suddenly and touched her cheek lightly with his fingers . |
| 20 | He thrust his face close to hers suddenly and made her jump , pulling her round so that she was close and more aware than she ever wanted to be again of his dominant masculinity . |
| 21 | He turned suddenly and saw her and she was held motionless by his gaze , caught without any hope of escape , mesmerised by the power and intensity of his whole being . |
| 22 | Images from her dreams charged into her consciousness suddenly and curtained her away from reality . |
| 23 | Then , as she skewered him with a look of pure detestation , he reached out suddenly and caught her by the wrists . |
| 24 | Theda stopped still suddenly and faced him . |
| 25 | Then he stood up suddenly and snapped his fingers . |
| 26 | As Estella was leading me along the dark passages , she stopped suddenly and put her face close to mine . |
| 27 | Trouble is , I do n't know what he 'd do - " He broke off suddenly and turned his head away , whispering , " My father , my father , my father … " in a way so bitter and desperate that she turned to him and held him ; and although they had already stayed far longer than on previous nights , she had a sudden foreboding of events , so that she needed to love him again , now ; and a little while later , without thinking of the danger , she cried out with the joy of him : a single shriek in the night that echoed in the trees below the house and was followed by a strange , almost tangible silence . |
| 28 | He moved suddenly and grabbed her arm , just above the wrist . |
| 29 | Well my there 's never any please , there 's never any thank you , there 's nothing , I mean there are are n't they , when he was saying that all he 's done for her and they virtually like turned their back on them , he got out in all those winds and weather were n't it , but , we built there and he come out apparently and said I do n't want you having anything else to do with my kids , |
| 30 | He shone his torch inside and saw nothing amiss . |