Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then a little further on I heard English voices ahead , and called out . |
| 2 | The next morning I was sitting in the garden in the sun when suddenly I saw young Rupert of Hentzau on horse- back coming through the trees towards me . |
| 3 | It was a Top 30 of contemporary records , but the new entries were very unlikely , and obviously I favoured certain musicians , like T. Rex . |
| 4 | Erm , quite how we arrange cos this , as Margaret says there 's a lot of business to get through on occasions , but er , this , this meeting seems to had a lot , but , you know , er whether we could alternate er a business meeting with a , a , a speaker so I thought functional meeting every two months and a speaker attending er , er the other month , erm , I 'm really sussing it open for ideas , what , what do other people feel and |
| 5 | So I felt inexpressible gratitude to you for giving me the support and care of that relationship , however attenuated it appeared to me at times : |
| 6 | So I became Red Hat the clown and travelled among the street people ( in Europe ) , a little drunk , but not crazy drunk in those days . |
| 7 | So I chose general farming , and then you chose whether you wanted to go to a farm or and in a hostel , communal . |
| 8 | So I rang United Airlines head office , at my own expense , and spoke to a woman who could find no record of me on the UA computer . |
| 9 | The heat of the windless afternoon lay on her like a blanket , but suddenly she felt deathly cold . |
| 10 | And suddenly she felt fierce anger flare up inside her at the way he continually misjudged and denied her and seemed to reject every good and decent thing about her . |
| 11 | All night long she made mental notes of all the transactions being made , the profits , the losses , meetings , separations , the wanting , having , getting , seeing , the excess , the moderation , the negotiations ; all those men trying to work out what they wanted , what they could afford , what they needed . |
| 12 | So she murmured soothing words and patted Eleanor 's shoulder until , little by little , the rocking and moaning subsided like the vibration of a spring coming to rest . |
| 13 | So she had great fun making them . |
| 14 | Inside she heard frantic barking . |
| 15 | but from the time they moved in she noticed red squirrels . |
| 16 | Obviously we needed additional colleagues , and we decided to involve a number in the Education Department , who were willing to work with us . |
| 17 | We have not yet been sufficiently educated to realize that the risk of dying from the greatest killer disease in the Western world could be drastically reduced if only we took preventative measures by eating sensibly and looking after our bodies . |
| 18 | So we developed simple tests to overcome some of the difficulties , but they were often not very ‘ relevant ’ . |
| 19 | So we became good friends . |
| 20 | Could n't you have somehow fixed it so we had separate rooms ? ’ |
| 21 | In Scotland , Members of Parliament from both sides of the House and local government employees and councillors stupidly said that they would continue with the revaluation , and so we had five-year revaluations until 1985 . |
| 22 | Mums and toddlers thought it was wonderful , we only had half a dozen you see in there cos it was low numbers all round so we had low numbers in the |
| 23 | Suddenly they met burnt chip contamination and had to shut down the production line , a major anxiety as they were producing to a tight schedule in a ‘ Just in time ’ situation . |
| 24 | Suddenly they heard loud cries coming from the servants ' rooms , at the side of the house . |
| 25 | How long they sat unmoving Sally-Anne never knew . |
| 26 | Their manpower requirements were planned in detail and they knew exactly when and for how long they needed additional workers . |
| 27 | Perhaps they said other things , too — I do n't know . |
| 28 | ( Perhaps they despatched certain people to chop down the trees and make the charcoal ? |
| 29 | And it was very easy for young erm young women erm who were either just on supplementary benefit or on unemployment , erm to get sucked into that way of living because I mean obviously they wanted nice clothes and things like that . |
| 30 | So they made different decisions about the best places for their industries . |