Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually Corbett decided to stay there , leaning against the rail , watching the day break above him . |
| 2 | And so Felix offered to take over the wheel and drive for a while . |
| 3 | Hitherto Victoria had had far more liberal banking laws than the other five states . |
| 4 | So Edward had come back to see how she had got on . |
| 5 | Perhaps Friday wanted to go home too . |
| 6 | Perhaps Wordsworth intended to break down the cultivated reader 's protective distinction between literature and life : he certainly succeeded in confusing people , in 1798 and ever since . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps Nigel had come earlier and killed him and then arranged to come back and find the body . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If only Elaine had got round to registering the birth ! |
| 9 | By four o'clock Thiercelin had decided there was nothing further he could usefully do but await events . |
| 10 | Suddenly Tambini had run over to where most of us stood , awaiting our turn at the firing point . |
| 11 | So Davout had got that far . |
| 12 | Anna had arrived a week before the end of term , and so Christine had to go back to school , to her job , leaving Tony ( who had been granted paternity leave ) to cope on his own . |
| 13 | So Masklin had decided not to decide anything about Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) , in the hope that if there was an Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) and he found out about Masklin , he would n't mind much . |
| 14 | So Harris decided to go out in style . |
| 15 | Significantly enough Matisse tended to collect relatively conservative examples of tribal art , whereas Picasso was often most attracted to abstract , fanciful and esoteric sculptures and artefacts . |
| 16 | Not quite quickly enough Olive tried to shut out a second thought : that she would never , could never , have married an Englishman . |
| 17 | For a few minutes longer Isabel tried to sort out hard facts from vague suspicions , with little success . |
| 18 | Meanwhile Ben had gone off to move another lighter and was then intercepted by the Manager who directed him to the dock some way off . |
| 19 | Meanwhile Linton had got up from his armchair and gone out to join Cathy and Hareton . |
| 20 | The fact that any receipt would have been signed by the hypnotist and not Kylie seemed to have conveniently escaped the zealous Williams . |
| 21 | Meanwhile Tottenham celebrated bouncing out of the red as they banked nearly £6m from the sale of former Magpie Paul Gascoigne and immediately announced new plans to make money out of the midfield wizard . |
| 22 | Thus TWW had to compete not only with the mundane but necessary business skills of the Harlech consortium but with the presence of famous Welsh names from the arts — Richard Burton , Stanley Baker , Geraint Evans — and the authority of Lord Harlech himself , a former minister and Ambassador to the Kennedy White House . |
| 23 | As they accelerated away Joseph turned to stare out of the window and saw the peasant jump up and break into a little celebratory caper in the middle of the road . |
| 24 | Somehow Lindsey managed to laugh lightly . |
| 25 | Thus Mandel had set out the three levels at which the fight against bureaucratization must be waged by the ‘ revolutionary vanguard ’ : |
| 26 | Gradually Swindon started to move forward … they had a few corners but never really threatened . |
| 27 | But yesterday Murray refused to say just what was wrong with it . |
| 28 | Usually Pete liked to look down and watch the traffic from the window in the living room but today he bobbed about in the kitchen until Mum filled the basin with hot soapy water and scrubbed the driving wheel clean . |
| 29 | By the seventh and eighth centuries BC Israel had become quite wealthy . |
| 30 | But once Pietro started sounding off to the press they had to stand by you to avoid charges of bowing to pressure . ’ |