Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As I said , it 's up to you , ’ said this stupid young man , who could have done anything he liked to me — or so I felt at that moment — if only he had done it , and not talked about it first , trying to strike a bargain . |
| 2 | Because they had n't , I 'd , they usually say ring after one so I rang at half past one and they 'd emptied all the machines and everything . |
| 3 | So nobody grumbled at all about paying an extra er bit for for these men . |
| 4 | So she laughed at that , see . |
| 5 | As they jolted along they grinned at each other , letting out little exaggerated groans of pain every time the unsprung wheels hit a bump in the road . |
| 6 | but make me laugh even now , she said the first , the first memories I 've got of new little boy that starting in he looked at this little boy , she said , so , so excited by said with this pure white hair and the |
| 7 | But the longer she stared at that tiny betraying smudge , the more she realised that it was the only explanation that made any sense at all . |
| 8 | so , erm , last night when we came home I looked at this Argos ticket which I could n't find and I 've , in that I 've found what erm a Weight Watcher er menu , so I picked that out , so I 've had erm do n't know what you 'll call it today , boiled egg and toast , eh bread and butter |
| 9 | She always gets to do the music because you know , like she did at that er |
| 10 | I want to get down and boogie , do that head bashing like we did at that gig . |
| 11 | About a week later he explained at more length that the committee had seen all the drawings and liked them with this one exception . |
| 12 | He had very strong associated reactions in the arm whenever he moved at all . |
| 13 | Now we looked at both capillary tumours and solid tumours , but as this pictures demonstrates , we 're not y er able accurately to determine the count of capillary tumours . |
| 14 | Now he called at this house and said that he was er visiting for |
| 15 | Well I looked at that and I thought I thought well I 'm , I 'm sure it 's quarter to and checked on mine . |
| 16 | Surely you paused at this roadside oasis |
| 17 | After they had driven for a while , Edward said : ‘ Are n't we involved at all now ? |
| 18 | Well it started at half past six last night . |
| 19 | They looked at the rubbish , then they looked at each other . |
| 20 | Then they looked at each other . |
| 21 | Then they looked at each other and a silent flash of understanding passed between them . |
| 22 | Then they stared at each other in silence and saw into each other 's heart , sensing that each was a little afraid of what was to come , and of the powers that they felt were in their wings and across their lives and which had brought them together . |
| 23 | The articles were quite big at first , then got smaller until they were maybe only one or two paragraphs long , then they stopped at all . |
| 24 | He chose the blackjack from a selection on a velvet tray , and then he looked at some handcuffs — real ones , this time , but heavier than regulation and suggestive of overkill . |
| 25 | He did not explain how he arrived at that figure , but it turns out — conveniently — to be £93 less than the £420 student loan that the Government are now making available . |
| 26 | Well let's talk about precisely what happened at that meeting yesterday . |
| 27 | Why ca n't I seem to remember what I saw before when I looked at these things … |
| 28 | It was over a titbit on the floor and occurred after a period when they growled at each other at feeding time . |
| 29 | Again they looked at each other in silence , and then he said very slowly , ‘ I 've been to see Beecham and Holden . |
| 30 | ‘ I had thought so but recently he hinted at another asset he hoped to dispose of that would bring in quite a lot of money . |